Hey everyone! Over the past couple of months I’ve had about 3 fish get clamped fins and die as well as another 3 go completely missing! I have no clue how they’ve disappeared because there’s no bodies in the tank.
My tank is 160L, has 1 pearl gourami, 2 amano shrimp, 5 Pygmy corys, 7 peppered corys, 1 lil clown plec, 2 honey gouramis and then the remaining 5 guppies
Nothing in there is particularly aggressive and I’ve never seen any chasing- other than the pearl after the male gourami one or two times but they dont ever fight at feeding time.
Here’s some pictures of the ones that have died that I took. The one that’s white I’m considering that he could’ve been attacked but I’m not sure if fin clamping causes fin tears like that as it looks very different from the previous ones that died.
I took my water for a test today before I did a water change and everything was perfect besides a little bit of nitrates but it was a tiiiiny amount. I do have some test strips that I was using but I know they can be temperamental. However it did say the alkalinity was like mega high, I’ve been using Seachems Acid Buffer to bring down my PH from something stupid like 9 to the 7.5 but I would’ve thought that should have done something about the alkalinity as it’s meant to convert it into CO2? I didn’t want to add too much in case it lowered the PH too much.
Anyone have any ideas?? How can I get the alkalinity down if it is that? I’m gonna be ordering some tests soon.
My tank is 160L, has 1 pearl gourami, 2 amano shrimp, 5 Pygmy corys, 7 peppered corys, 1 lil clown plec, 2 honey gouramis and then the remaining 5 guppies
Here’s some pictures of the ones that have died that I took. The one that’s white I’m considering that he could’ve been attacked but I’m not sure if fin clamping causes fin tears like that as it looks very different from the previous ones that died.
I took my water for a test today before I did a water change and everything was perfect besides a little bit of nitrates but it was a tiiiiny amount. I do have some test strips that I was using but I know they can be temperamental. However it did say the alkalinity was like mega high, I’ve been using Seachems Acid Buffer to bring down my PH from something stupid like 9 to the 7.5 but I would’ve thought that should have done something about the alkalinity as it’s meant to convert it into CO2? I didn’t want to add too much in case it lowered the PH too much.
Anyone have any ideas?? How can I get the alkalinity down if it is that? I’m gonna be ordering some tests soon.