My platy is really unwell and I don't know what I should be doing.
First of all she looked a really young fish when i got her but appeared pregnant and soon enough she gave birth, she wasn't in a breeding tank or anything just in the same community tank and I have 1 baby. However since then she has just got worse.
Within days of given birth she was isolated in the tank, always on her own even though I have another male and female platy. She wasn't swimming about as much as before and it may seem strange but just looked sad.
After a week she started swimming strangely, which ended up basically vertical. I looked for different symptoms and everything else about her seem fine. Fins are perfect and movement good. She would move about and swim fine only when she stopped this happened. I fed the tank with peas hoping that this could help and for about 2 days she looked great and swimming with the other platy's.
But yesterday she started isolating herself again and swimming almost vertical when in the one place, but today other signs are more noticeable. She is really skinny, which makes her gill area/head look abnormal when really its how thin she is. She is at the bottom of the tank on her own and I am extremly worried for her.
Could this all be because of the stress of giving birth or something else.
Please help.
First of all she looked a really young fish when i got her but appeared pregnant and soon enough she gave birth, she wasn't in a breeding tank or anything just in the same community tank and I have 1 baby. However since then she has just got worse.
Within days of given birth she was isolated in the tank, always on her own even though I have another male and female platy. She wasn't swimming about as much as before and it may seem strange but just looked sad.
After a week she started swimming strangely, which ended up basically vertical. I looked for different symptoms and everything else about her seem fine. Fins are perfect and movement good. She would move about and swim fine only when she stopped this happened. I fed the tank with peas hoping that this could help and for about 2 days she looked great and swimming with the other platy's.
But yesterday she started isolating herself again and swimming almost vertical when in the one place, but today other signs are more noticeable. She is really skinny, which makes her gill area/head look abnormal when really its how thin she is. She is at the bottom of the tank on her own and I am extremly worried for her.
Could this all be because of the stress of giving birth or something else.
Please help.
