Your point about internal parasites: It's best to treat the whole tank instead of isolating the ill guppy. This is easier than treating the ill one and then later discovering that others were infected and having to treat them as well. Treat every fish and no more will get ill. Even if the sickest ones have no hope, it can be used as a preventative measure to make sure nobody else becomes infected. I've had entire batches of guppies die from ips.
Thank you so much for sharing this info. I have had four die, systematically one after another. I could not match the symptoms to the info about different illnesses, to the symptoms of my sick guppies. Your video has nailed it and now I can react and take the right action if needed. It's distressing seeing them suffer and not knowing what to do so once again, many many thanks :-)
API general cure mixed with food tank water, and some garlic. Feed for 7 days, remove carbon if you use that. This will also clear up mass infections. If you notice one like this chances are it's too late and the worms are in the water column or in fish already.
Glad you mentioned OLD Food. I believe many people lose track of how old foods can be and kept at room temperature it can turn rancid and poisonous within months.
@@pendlera2959 I know it’s been 3 years but I’m just getting into the hobby and no amount of research is helping me. So you get quality community pellets, put the container in the freezer, then take out a weekly amount and put in in a air tight baggy? How many pellets does each fish need a day? Do you just put a few or do you actually have an amount per fish? Thanks!
WTF MY GUPPY IS 3 YEARS OLD NOT EVEN JOKING he said they live 1-2 years LMAO *edit* -sad- news he died today in the morning *edit(2)* its been 9 months and you guys are still giving me support i really appreciate it. I now own 15 guppies! Got them a week ago so they are fresh and new but the are pure-bred so i wont expect them to last as long. edit(3) All of the 15 guppies died about 2 months ago and I now own a bearded dragon hes 3 years old got him 3weeks ago
planning on getting some of these beauties today and quarantining them for about 2 months and this can definitely help! thanks so much ❤️ love and support from Illinois, USA
I love cherry shrimp, they make me smile. In fact they are my fav animals, but my guppies eat cherries so i have 6 amanos in my tank with guppies and mollies. Btw your aquarium is amazing!!!!
I bought 8 a few years ago for my 55gal tank. I honestly think I just got a diseased batch from the pet store. I usually am good at keeping my fish. So, I'm glad I saw this video, thx.
Good video. Very informative and would like more guppy videos. I had one die due to old age and I just find them so entertaining, (not the one who died, obviously) that I'm interested in anything concerning them. Keep up the good work!
Not just the quality of the food matters but the amount. All fish food is composed of lots of protein. Feeding them every day and too much is going to bloat them leading them to dropsy. Its important to give them peas often since it contains lots of fiber to help flush out their system. If you dont have peas then i would recommend feeding them every other day or just a little once a day. Daphnia is also a good product to help flush out their system. Guppies will eat non stop, not bc they're hungry but bc theyre healthy. Doesnt mean to over feed them bc then it causes problems like dropsy.
i just got a new guppy and he has been swimming slightly sideways, everything i see says he has swim blather problems but considering how guppies with damaged swim bladders act i don’t think that’s it, hopefully it’s just stress from a new tank and he’ll get better soon!
Sometimes they die after giving birth, and the fish bought in stores are weaker then a self raised guppy. Your fry Will probably be stronger than the bought fish
Do you need a heater in a guppy grow out tank? My marina hob breeder kinda sucks tbh and I was thinking of using one of those one gallon betta prisons from the box stores as a grow out tank. Would I be okay throwing a sponge filter and fry in there? I live in Florida so it’s pretty warm and our room temperature is usually between 70-77 indoors
I don’t have anywhere to put another guppy... idk what to do they aren’t skinny and they aren’t always alone and it’s just the one sometimes another comes over though
Okay idk if anyone will even see this but about a month and a half ago I bought 6 guppies a betta and a mystery snail for my 20 gal and within a week 5 guppies and my betta died.. but the last guppy and snail are still alive and thriving.. what happened?? There was 0 aggression from any of the fish in the tank and I went to my bfs and when I came home they had died..
I have a guppy that can't swim upright. Also, at the same time I have others that are hiding in plants. They have never done this. I have lost 3 guppies and they never die in my aquarium. I don't know what is going on. They are not skinny and have no signs of infection. It's sad and I'm at a loss. The water parameters are good.
I had a guppie that has lived for 1 year now and I first got two males together and the other one died and now this one haa been lonely for a while now and it's the most active fish on my tank
I had 2 males as well. It was living with a betta fish for 2 years in peace until one day, betta fish snapped and attacked.( They have been living for 2 years without a problem ) One of them died and I had to remove the other guppy.
I am really researching around for guppy keeping... I am getting a new tank and some guppies... Am so happy yay!! Can u tell me how many guppies is worth a 40 gallon tank? And thnax for the tips
The fish immune system helps them fight off parasites bacteria etc naturally so they don’t need to be medicated. When they’re stressed that’s when they’re more vulnerable to disease. High quality water is what keeps them healthy so it’s important to do regular water changes.
Parasites when attack the fish once, It's important to medicate with antibiotics (in a quarantine tank, Otherwise if the disease is something that stays in the tank and will come back if you won't sterilize then sterilize it and repeat the cycle and add the fish when they're cured back, antibiotics do kill bacteria beneficial or harmful and mostly kill plants too) otherwise will be a problem. A lot of diseases require antibiotics and can't be cured using natural stuff and once they are in your tank good water quality without the proper meds is unhelpful for the fish with the disease.
Use salt in the water! 1 fish per gallon and change the water every week (80%) and clean the tank walls and wash the liefs of the plants! And your fish will be just fine but most importantly, use salt and water conditioner every time! Measure the pH
shlakser 80% water change is drastic and will cause issues with sensitive animals or ones that require dosing such as shrimp which require go increases 10% is more like it
@@jrich436 the shrimps die of desies due to toxic water and lack of oxygen. 10% water change is highly insufficient! 10% water change is called the old aquarium syndrome. The best way to keep your animals healthy is water change (the right way). I see people not cleaning the filters and this is complete madness. Beneficial bakteria is contained benith the stones on the bottom and on the stones (small stones and plants are a must) and 1 tea spoon salt on every 3.5 gallons of water!
shlakser 10% has been the standard since before either of us were born. Billions of tanks across the world. Trillions of gallons. 80% is utterly ridiculous. And will shock most sensitive animals into oblivion. On top of that you would go broke dosing for anything that needs more than 7 ph 0kh, 0gh 100 TDS I breed shrimp. I sustain 4-6 gh from R/O water. Our tap water is at 3 and of course reverse or distilled is 0 and has to be doses up. 6 sustains then and allows them to survive someone buying and dumping in a tank that is probably 2-4. They come in with water as high as 13. I’ve seen a colony crash going from bag at 10* into a well established system at 6*. Everything already in there survived everything added died. I’ve seen a tank at 10 crash when lowered to 4 to match to what new shrimp were at. Every one in the tank died. Everything added survived. You’d go broke redoing 80% of your water to get it to 6* There are only a few diseases that effect shrimp and a handful more that will effect fish. Water changes alone will not cure many of them. 80* is drastic, wasteful and not cost effective. If you need 80* of your water changed you are over feeding or over stocking
shlakser beneficial bacteria are on everything in the tank and benefit from oxygenation. Established filter media that gets wet but is exposed to oxygen is better than rocks submerged in water alone I barely ever clean the sponge or madden filters in the shrimp tank as it’s the main way to feed them. I never clean any surface that I’m establishing bacteria on in any drip tray/spray bar/bio ball/etc etc etc Only the mechanical screens are changed and it has to do with efficiency of capturing not anything to do with bacteria Done right the filters become mostly houses for bacteria which clean the water NOT a physical object capturing dirt. Once again it sounds like you over feed or over stock. If balanced a tank can go years without ever having to change anything in a filter with 7-8 pH and no nitrates You have a lot of studying to do
@@jrich436 if you put new inhabitants in your tank with those 10% water changes, they will die! Also if you breed the animals and sell them, dont get them used to your toxic water because you will lose your customers. Once they buy them from you and put them in their tank they are done. I have a 60 gallon with 22 guppies (colony) and I feed them 3 times a day with food that they can eat all in 2 minutes max. When I clean my tank I clean everything incl. The walls of the tank and my pump is sucking the water benith the stones on the bottom (best filtration). Twice a week I clean the sponge on my external filter (I have a additional filter for the bateriata. Type in RU-vid Old tank syndrome and see it for yourself.
Guppies are soooooo weird, I’ve had a few male sets , I’ll have about three or four at a time and when one dies I take the body out but the rest follow. It’s super weird that’s how I’ve experienced their death. I have a 10 gallon with four boy guppies, two cherry barbs and two tetras. The rest have outlived the guppies, with my experience with them , when one goes they all will go ☹️
Same here i recommend only getting 4 guppy’s I had better results with it. One time I had 4 guppies and then after a year I put in a dwarf gorami and then it mustve had some disease and killed all my fish
Currently dealing with what I thought was just ich. Nope. Flukes and ich.... tackled the ich now the gill flukes.... flashing gave it away then I noticed one of my females staying at top, losing color in fins, barely eats. All other fish are doing good besides flashing so I hope I can rid the flukes that causing them to flash... water parameters are great and using combo of General Cure and EM. Fingers crossed especially since I have bunch fry now too! (Guilty of not QT new fish) never again!
My pregnant female guppy just sits at the top of the water and doesn’t move (he is breathing) he’s fins seem to be in a bad shape. Do you know what this is
I have 2 male guppies and they bite each other's tails :/ I'm not sure how to get them to stop fighting I added a 3rd one today to maybe distract them from fighting
I bought several guppy since october. and the male guppy always die less than a week, while the female still living healthy until now. The fry from previous female are healthy. Im not sure why the male always die, but I assume their genes are getting weaker as breeder usually interbred them to get a consistent color.
"Dropsy," or edema, is usually caused by kidney failure in fish. It's pretty much untreatable. However, it is frequently confused for another condition: constipation. Epsom salt can cure constipation because it is a laxative.
@@baokachi9767 I'm not terribly well-educated in fish physiology, but in humans kidney failure is, essentially, a result of an electrolyte imbalance. In some cases, the imbalance is so profound that you have crystals precipitating out of solution and harming the tissues or osmotic pressure large enough to pull whole proteins through the fenestra of the glomeruli. I'd hazard to guess that, in fish, whose kidneys have the extra burden of constantly maintaining ions inside the fish's body against the concentration gradient (since fish live in water), any number of factors could reduce the fish's renal perfusion rate, thus upsetting this imbalance and allowing the fish to accumulate too much water in its body. My hypothesis is that these factors could include stress (which can really mess with blood flow to the kidney), the presence of certain chemicals in the aquarium, infection, congenital abnormalities such as Cushing's disease, et cetera. Of course, because humans don't value the lives of fish as much as those of humans, not a tremendous amount of research has been made publicly available, though it might be out there.
I just took 2 dead guppy from my tank, they have been eaten by others by the look of tails but there is a heap of gizzard floating with them. I should have photographed. Could temperature make them poop their guts out? I’m only person in house.
@@SamChavez3213, hi! Yes they are still alive, they are all well and happy now. I learned that my tank light was to much for them so now they like just the natural light from the window.
Feeding Tetra food doesnt mean your fish dont get Dropsy..Over stock,over feeding or lack of cleaning/water changes will cause fishes' immume system to drop and get sick including Dropsy.
I had only one guppy and he seemed fine, and I bought more and was about to add them to my main tank today and before I put them in, I realized the original guppy was looking skinny and sick. I didn't put the newer ones in the tank, I put the newer ones in a small tank for now ... What should I do? Should I take him out and add them to the main tank or should I treat my whole tank (community) and keep the new ones out until he's feeling better?
Don’t forget to do something about the air/gas pockets under the sand! My tank has started sending my guppies loopy with swim bladder and that is the reason why
@@itminime5507 no.. I still haven't got guppies. My Mollies keep breeding so I didn't want to over stock the tank. I got swordtails that are breeding too.
would you know any reason why my guppies stayed small, i noticed that one of my first batches that are now a year old, stayed way smaller than the others, but their colors developed fully, i can even send videos and pictures..
I had four guppies and one of them was very skinny and lethargic, and always at the top of the tank like you said in the beginning it died, the other fish look fine for know, but do you think they can still have it? my other three guppies look heathy they are all eating and always swimming, but can they still have it. I wish I saw this video before my guppy died ahhh
I have 3 guppies 1 male and 2 female there the normal type of guppies and 1 female had baby’s but 1 day later it died Could it giving birth kill it some how? And they Young Healthy and the food is Brand new
one of my guppies is really small compared to him, even my neon tetras are bigger then him, hes always been little even tho he eats alot. any opinions?
I have 6 adult guppies in my 100l tank 4 female 2 male. This morning my smaller male guppy was laying on his side on bottom and i put him on separate box in the tank. He swims and eats and lays on bottom again. I saw that his tail is little bit ripped but didn't saw any other injuries. I also have 5 kuhlis, 6 guppy frys and pleco in the tank. My pleco is pretty agressive and sometimes "attac" towards my fish with her spikes out. All my other fish are fine, water is fine, i change 10% water 2 days ago and 40% last week. I use sera aquatan and sometimes tetra easy balance. My fish mostly eat flakes, shrimp, cucumber and spirulin catfish chips. I've never have problems with sick fish or moss/alga. Atm male guppy is in 1l solid box laying on his side. His tail color is bright babyblue witch is right but his body is grayish (usually yellow). Is he ill? Whats wrong with him?
tinsletoes_playz yeah, where i live i’m lucky to not have chlorinated water and it’s very nutritious so i really don’t know what happened. i have a 180 litre tank i set up a month ago with no deaths but that smaller cycled one had a few???
My pregnant 🤰 hippy died with like 200 babies in her stomach and she was huge her gills were stretching then she started to get frail and couldn’t swim at first I thought she was going through some hard time carrying all those babies but turns out she had a disease and it spread to the babies before they were born now it has been two years and none of my other hippies have given birth I think that was the only fish that was ever going to get pregnant in my tank so it’s just so sad how I lost so many baby fishies🙁 𝙷𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚢𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚐𝚞𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚟𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚏 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚎𝚝
I have another reason you didn't dig a large decoration deep enough in the substrate it falls knocks out and kills your guppie while your at school and you come back in a panick cos you only count 3 and the center peice fell you pick it up and there is your guppie lying there looking like it's alive but it's not
I’ve had this happen too. So sad. One I noticed was attacked by another fish because his side was all gashed but one just died for no apparent reason. Obviously there was one but it’s a mystery to me too. Still got seven out of ten that are doing well 🤷🏼♀️
Great video contents! Can i kindly check if the guppy fries do not eat live bbs or ready flakes or pellets after being born for >4-5days, what can i do?😰 pls help
