ToothlessTheGuppy

Thank you. Yes, I've already treated them with the second dose on thursday, so I'm going to repeat it twice.

Thank You very much for your help. Unfortunetely he passed away... 😞 I've dosed the esha ndx and then changed the water. He got much better after the treatment, he started swimming normally, and was very fine for two days, his belly started looking normal. I've fed him live glassworms (chaoborus larve) and frozen brine shrimp, he ate it. He tried to bury himself in the gravel, he tried to dig in. Then he entered between the decoration (rock) and the Anubias roots. He couldn't go out, cause his tail was stucked and torn... I've tried to help him by deataching Anubias carrefully. His tail didn't look that bad but I think it stressed him out completely... I've removed the decoration, and now Anubias is just floating in the water. It never happened to me before, none of my fish hid like this. I've repeated the treatment yesterday and blackout the tank. I was about to do a water change but I've noticed something weird. There are some white worms on the glass... I've read that it could be something called planaria, but I'm not sure. I perform regular water changes once a week, I'm using Aquael turbo 500 which aerates the aquarium with bubbles. And eSHa ndx haven't kill them... And now after I've turned on the lights, they've dissapeared.

I've added eSHa ndx and black out the tank yesterday, when the medication arrived. Little guy is laying on the gravel for 2 days, he's moving on the ground. Sometimes he swims normally with other fish, but over time he does it less and less often. His belly is also way more sunken cause he doesn't eat... He doesn't swim up when I feed them. It's hard for me to give him up cause I don't know if fish in this condition has any chances or maybe it's just a torment for him. I tried to feed him, but I don't want to stress him out.

As always, thank you for your advice! 🙂 I've just bought it, hope it will help him. Since I've recently used eSHa 2000, I should probably use active carbon to remove it from aquarium and do some water changes. 🙂

Before I tried with ESHA 2000 I've also added salt 1,5 week ago - 1 table spoon for 5 gallons

Hello, I've been experiencing some issues with one of my guppies. I've had my guppy fish tank since April 2023. One of my guppies has become thinner, and his poop has turned white, very long, and very thin. He has developed a bent spine, along with a loss in his tail. Appart from the spine, he swims rather normally. I suspect the loss in his tail is caused by one of my other guppies, which sometimes acts aggressively towards others by nipping at their tails. This guppy with symptoms has a good appetite but often spits out food; perhaps he's picky because he never spits out green pea or spirulina. I'm uploading pictures to show how he looked at the beginning and how he started to look about a week ago. Color differences in the photos are caused by lighting, and on the second picture, there is a stain on the aquarium glass (not on him). His eyes were always "hollow" like this; he's an albino. I've tried to treat him with ESHA 2000, (the smaller, reccommended, dose, 25 drops/26 gal, not 50 drops/26g) it's been 5 days and nothing changed, maybe it takes more time or maybe it's not the accurate medication. Although before that his belly was sunken, and now it's a little bit fuller (just a little). My parametres are: pH 7,5 Nitrates 15 Hardness 15 Nitrite 0 Ammonia 0 KH/Buffer 10 Water Temperature 73,4 F Cl 0 13 gallons, 5 guppy guys Thank you for your answer in advance ❤️

@Odd Duck I tried to find "PondX", but I can't. There is no information about it on the internet

@Odd Duck I'm worried about fish TB too... Two fish (those with symptoms) died yesterday... 😞 So there are only two left without any signs of disease. But they are in the same tank, so I need to observe them for some time before adding any new fish. Don't you happen to know how long the TB is developing? I've found informations wich said that the time could be various. @Colu It all started when the temperature droped overnight from 78 to 71 degrees. I have a heater with thermostat but apparently something went wrong... The 2 fish started to isolate from the others and then swimming weirdly. The third one had bent spine since I got him, but about week ago he started to laying on the substrate, although ammonia and nitrite was 0 and nitrate was low.

@Colu I've started with gdex. Ndx is not available now, but maybe it will be soon... So it might be scoliosis, even if he had a straight spine before?

@Colu @Odd Duck @iwanttostayanonymous 92074 I'm sorry for @ you, but I'm really concerned... 😞 I hope I'm not being to pushy... The red fish died yesterday. The one with bent spine. 😞 I took some pictures of him, so maybe someone could help me to identify what happened with him, but I didn't notice anything abnormal exept being extra thin. (I've named him Blue (like sad), so the pictures are signed like that, sorry if it's confusing). I've also noticed, that the other sick fish, the white tuxedo has now bent spine too, and he had it straight before. I don't know if it's because of tuberculosis, or he's just weakened. He still leans to his side while swimming, but at least he's not rotating or swimming with head down like week ago. He floats in one place for most of the time. Exept him there are 2 fish in the aquarium, they don't have any symptoms I see.

Thank you for your response! @Colu I've found esha gdex and ndx, it's available in my country, I'll give it a try. 🙂 @iwanttostayanonymous 92074 He was like this from beggining, but he's with me for 2 months. He's very skinny, although he has apetite, but since yesterday he stopped coming for food. He's not that colorful as always and started laying at the bottom for most of the time while his gils are moving fast... I've checked water parametres. 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 15 nitrates. I'm putting the food in front of him, and he's jumping at it immediately. But I'm really affraid it could be TB... So sorry to hear that. 😞 I got attached to the black one despite the short time... @Odd DuckI was doing large water change because of using a medication (with trypaflavin's derivative) which I had to remove with active carbon and water change. Maybe it affected the beneficial bacteria since it's antibacterial. I vacuum gravel once a week, so it shouldn't be much mulm in the substrate.

Hey, @Colu, thanks again for your advice 🙂 There are meds available that contains derivatives of levamisole and praziquentel but the producer doesn't declare concentrations etc. Only that you should put it in your tank and after 6 hours make 80% water change and then use active carbon. (I'm attaching the label of the praziquental derivative translated by google). Other meds like this aren't available in my country without prescription. 😞 I guess I could do something like @Odd Duck, but I'm not sure about leaving it more than 6 hours, so maybe instead of doing 24h I'll do 6h. Sera bactopur is available in my country so it should not be the problem. I only wonder about benefictial bacterias... Last time I did big water change I had enourmous nitrite spikes every day, and my fish suffered from it. Even though I've added a lot of bottled bacterias...

[Warning, there are pics of a very sick guppy under the post] Hello, from some time I'm fighting with some disease that keeps making my fish sick and killing them... I don't know what it is. At first I thought it might be swim bladder disease, cause 2 of them kept swimming in circles and leaning to their side, or with their heads down. Their poops were long, white and very thin. They are unfortunetely from import. Probably from Asia and I'm from central Europe. But the other one has different symptoms. His poops are also white for 2 days and stringy. He also isolate from the others from time to time. But he swims "normal". He has a specific way of swimming, yes, but was like that since he came to my tank. When I bought him he had his spine like weirdly bent and it's still remaining like that. I was affraid it could've been TB? I have also video of him swimming, but I can't upload here, so I'm adding from wetranfer https://we.tl/t-PmG3zzTn01 I was using trypaflavine but it didn't change anything, now I'm thinking about using cure for parasites. I've also bathed them in methylene blue and malachite green before adding them to the aquarium. And I've added salt 2 weeks ago (which killed a lot of my plants). I'm uploading photos of my fish. The black one unfortunetely passed away about 2 weeks ago. 😥 I think before passing he went blind, because his eye turned white and was black before. I don't know if it means anything. My tank parameters: Gallons 13 pH 7,5 Nitrates 10 Hardness 15 Nitrite 0 Ammonia 0 KH/Buffer 10 Water Temperature 78,8 F Cl 0

@nabokovfan87 Yes, that's a very plain fitler, yet there was some free space in there so I've put 4 ceramic rings there. I know it ain't much, but for now it seem to work, cause the nitrites are going down.

@CJs Aquatics @nabokovfan87 Thank you for your response. I thought it's enough for 1,2 inch guppy. 😞 I've set it up pretty fast... So my quarantine tank is 3 gallon, with only that one fish. I'm using Sunsun HJ-411B filter. I haven't bought him a heater, but he has a thermometer and the temperature doesn't change at all. It's 80 F all the time. It's completely new tank with bacterias added to it. I've wanted to seperate him from other fish. I've put lot of plants but it died due to trypaflavine I think... So now it's only few of them, but I've bought new plants today and I'm gonna add them. I've already did it, it's here: 2 days ago I've decided to try something different. I've stopped changing his water, because the nitrites was hitting 1,0-1,5 mg/l every 4 hours... I took some of my main tank's media and put it in the quarantine tank's filter. I also took some gravel and put it in QT. Lastly - I've put a lot of bottled bacterias directly on filter's sponge. It worked out. The next day nitrite was about 0,3. And after few hours 0,2. Now it's 0,025. But he doesn't look better yet. About the disease... Today I've heard from a guy in an aquaristic shop that it could be parasites, since the fish that passed away had white, long and thin poops and it looked like he lost his sight in one eye. Cause it turned light gray and was black before. And praziquantel was reccomended to me. Also they told me to put it in the main tank and after 5 hours change 80% of water, but I'm a little scared to do it in the main tank, as it could completely destroy the cycle. But the other fish can be infected too... Also, my fish were from import. There is only one shop in my city that doesn't import guppies (I was there today, and the guy told me about parasites). Most of them are from Asia and I live in Europe so they are not used to european bacterias...