In an established 20g long, there's 3 little guys I took over care from my nieces tank.
2 Sunset guppies
1 Calico Platy Variatus I believe
They've been in there for about 4-5 months now, no problems, always healthy.
Around last month, I noticed a tiny pin hole dot in the platys tail fin. I watched it very close over the next 2 weeks, kind of looked like it happened from a flaring rip, because of where it was. It stayed exactly the same, so I said whatever, i'll just keep the water clean, as usual.
Now the past week, the 2 guppies, especially the 1, both have ragged looking fins. The bad 1 has lost it's spade shape, just looked torn all over, slightly white edging. Classic signs of fin rot, no?
So I'm at the end of an antibacterial treatment (Melafix), dosed 3/4 strength, and the fin decay has been slowly worsening. Pinhole unaffected (I read the only way to fix these is to slit the fin, and let it heal). The one with the worse fin is also pretty white in the mornings, and takes longer to 'wake up'.
I just successfully finished treatment for fin rot in another tank, that's currently fish-in cycling, so the ammonia and stress levels were elevated for that fish.
This tank has been steady at
Ph 7.8
Amm 0 (Never been above 0.05)
Nitrites 0
Nitrates <10
What should I look in to? Like I said, I took over caring for them, so not all too attached to them. Just an animal person like helping out when I can
2 Sunset guppies
1 Calico Platy Variatus I believe
They've been in there for about 4-5 months now, no problems, always healthy.
Around last month, I noticed a tiny pin hole dot in the platys tail fin. I watched it very close over the next 2 weeks, kind of looked like it happened from a flaring rip, because of where it was. It stayed exactly the same, so I said whatever, i'll just keep the water clean, as usual.
Now the past week, the 2 guppies, especially the 1, both have ragged looking fins. The bad 1 has lost it's spade shape, just looked torn all over, slightly white edging. Classic signs of fin rot, no?
So I'm at the end of an antibacterial treatment (Melafix), dosed 3/4 strength, and the fin decay has been slowly worsening. Pinhole unaffected (I read the only way to fix these is to slit the fin, and let it heal). The one with the worse fin is also pretty white in the mornings, and takes longer to 'wake up'.
I just successfully finished treatment for fin rot in another tank, that's currently fish-in cycling, so the ammonia and stress levels were elevated for that fish.
This tank has been steady at
Ph 7.8
Amm 0 (Never been above 0.05)
Nitrites 0
Nitrates <10
What should I look in to? Like I said, I took over caring for them, so not all too attached to them. Just an animal person like helping out when I can