Hi all,
So I've recently had a problem with the fish in my 20g freshwater aquarium. I had 3 blue platies and a redtail dalmation platy. Over the course of a couple of weeks, every single platy got progressively skinnier until one day they just died. Other than the fish getting thinner, everything else about the fish was normal. They behaved normally, ate every day when fed, and did not have any other physical signs of being ill.
The only thing I can think of is the fish acquired some sort of internal parasite? I had a neon blue stiphodon goby that died in the process as well. My other fish are all doing really well; it was just the platies and the goby that were affected.
I haven't acquired any new fish since probably around March. My water parameters are good. Nitrite = 0, and Nitrate and ammonia are very low, though I don't remember exactly what the numbers are at the moment. I do know that they are at safe levels, though. pH is quite high, I think around 8.5? After the platies died, I bought some peat moss pellets to try to lower the pH naturally, thinking that maybe the higher pH had something to do with the deaths.
Can anybody tell me what happened to my platies? What kind of sickness makes them get progressively skinnier without any other symptoms?
So I've recently had a problem with the fish in my 20g freshwater aquarium. I had 3 blue platies and a redtail dalmation platy. Over the course of a couple of weeks, every single platy got progressively skinnier until one day they just died. Other than the fish getting thinner, everything else about the fish was normal. They behaved normally, ate every day when fed, and did not have any other physical signs of being ill.
The only thing I can think of is the fish acquired some sort of internal parasite? I had a neon blue stiphodon goby that died in the process as well. My other fish are all doing really well; it was just the platies and the goby that were affected.
I haven't acquired any new fish since probably around March. My water parameters are good. Nitrite = 0, and Nitrate and ammonia are very low, though I don't remember exactly what the numbers are at the moment. I do know that they are at safe levels, though. pH is quite high, I think around 8.5? After the platies died, I bought some peat moss pellets to try to lower the pH naturally, thinking that maybe the higher pH had something to do with the deaths.
Can anybody tell me what happened to my platies? What kind of sickness makes them get progressively skinnier without any other symptoms?