Teacups

Happier update… one of the ladies in my main tank had babies. These are my first fish grand-babies, and I am elated!!

Final update. Little girl did not make it. She seemed to perk up a bit after that water change last night, but by this morning she had passed. thank you all for your help and advice throughout. I learned a lot, and now I have so many more meds on hand at home!

Update: this afternoon she was much more active, swimming around. I got a pic of her even. The fuzz looks mostly gone, and I can see the damaged skin underneath. This evening she is hiding in her cave and seems in a very bad way. I know it’s the last day of medicine, but I did an extra water change. I don’t know if she’ll make it through the night or not. She’s currently sitting on the bottom of the tank not moving. She perked up during the water change and then settled down in her corner hiding spot. We’ll see if she makes it through the night… If she makes it, I may give her a few days and then reevaluate course of action. The treatment seemed to have worked, but I’m not sure she’s strong enough for it. And now her fin is starting to show some fin rot.

Y’all have been so very helpful. I really appreciate your guidance and advice so much!!

Thanks @Colu! One question. How do I know if I need to re-treat? She seems to be a tiny bit more active today. I’ve seen her swim out in other areas of the quarantine tank, so she def seems a little more well. I guess I finish these 5 days and then monitor her for worsening symptoms?

Update: the yellow female guppy is still swimming and trying. She still has her patch on her head. She is on day 3 of the Kanaplex and Jungle Fizz treatment. Her spot is still on her head, so hoping to see it start to heal up soon. Yesterday it looked like it was peeling almost, so I am hopeful that means it’s healing. Photos are from today. The main tank guppies are still looking good! Today I changed 30% of the water per Aquarium Coop’s instructions on the led trio. So excited that they made it through strong!

Update: the yellow female guppy is still swimming and trying. She still has her patch on her head. She had about 3 days of Maracyn. Today the Kanaplex and Jungle Fizz arrived, so I did a water change and started the new meds. @Colushe hasn’t eaten in almost a week. Can she eat with this treatment, or should I keep fasting her? the guppies remaining in the main tank are still doing well. Saturday is the completion of the med trio, and I’m sure they are excited for a water change! I’ve had to add FritzZyme7 to co trial ammonia and nitrites, but they are still active and seem happy. 🤞🤞🤞 wish us luck!

Update from today: this morning the white fish with the bleeding died. The sick with with columnaris still looks the same. I’ve been dozing with Maracyn and aquarium salt while I wait for the meds to arrive. Last night the jungle fizz arrived so I went ahead and put a bundle fizz tab in the water along with some Maracyn. the Kanaplex is arriving tomorrow. I’m thinking I may need to do a water change before starting the dosing guidance @Columentioned above, just to start with clean water. The main tank with the 5other guppies are still looking and acting ok. I’m hoping that they’ll make it till Saturday when my 7 days of the Med Trio on that tank is complete and I can do my 30% water change and start feeding. 🤞🤞🤞

Thank you! I will do that now!

Here's another update from this morning. I checked my main tank. The other fish looked good still, except a white lady had a red spot and red lips, and she was acting lethargic. When I netted her, she even didn't try to move out of the way at all. So I pulled her into the QT tank with the other sick girl, since I didnt have any other place to put her. I'll share some photos of the two sick ladies, as well as a video of everyone else in the other tank. I added the med trio on Saturday in the main tank, so in a few days I should be in a place I can do a water change in the main tank, since the water looks pretty ugly and dark. I have the meds for the QT tank on order to arrive by Thursday. No stores near me have the right medicine, so hopefully I can keep yellow sick lady alive until they arrive. In the meantime, I went ahead and added another dose of Maracyn to the QT tank when I added the white sick lady in there. I'm feeling pretty down about all of this. I have a lot of learning still to do, and I hate that these poor fish are part of that learning process. This is my first attempt at fish, and I had the main tank cycling for a long time and consistently had great readings for over a week before adding fish. I guess next time I will be more patient before adding a fish, and I'll start fish out in a QT tank even before moving them into an empty tank. Appreciate you all for helping me with this, @Colu @Chick-In-Of-TheSea @nabokovfan87. Hopefully I can save as many of these guppies as possible...! Not sure why my photos are posting upside down... I'm also confused about the red gills. Both my main tank and QT tank are testing at 0 ammonia...

Since I have her separate, should I treat only her for now or treat both tanks?

I moved this little lady to a QT tank setup this morning. She def has a white patch on her head. Tried to get some photos... did the best I could. You can see its more on one side of her head than the other. When I had her in the display thank with the other guppies, I dosed the med trio (purchased all the meds from Aq. Coop! Maracyn, Paracleanse, and Ich-X) for a 15 gallon tank, which is what caused that big bacteria bloom yesterday. This morning when I moved her to the separate tank, I added in another dose of Maracyn, but for the smaller 3-gallon tank size I have her in now. Appreciate you all so much for helping a newbie! I really want my fish to be ok. I'm very worried, so having you all here to help advise if such a help to me!

Update on testing this morning. my tank is still showing 0 for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, but one of my fish has a white fuzzy patch on her back. my tap water shows 0 for ammonia and nitrite, and 5 nitrate All tests done with the API master kit. should I redone any meds or leave the tank be for now? Should I add Fritz Complete or Fritz Zyme 7? I read that if one fish has columnaris, that you have to treat the whole tank. So wondering if I should redoes Maracyn…

Thank you for your response @nabokovfan87!! I will test my tap water this morning and share back. this morning, my tank is much less cloudy but now I see columnaris on one of my female guppies. She has a big white fuzzy patch on her back. since I have meds already in the tank should I leave her, or better to pull her out into a separate container and dose her again with something?

Hi all, I am new and trying to learn as much as I can! I have a 15 gallon tank (Fluval Flex 15) with lots of plants and the betta substrate from Aquarium Coop that has been running for about 10 weeks. I was doing daily testing, and my numbers started to normalize, so I added 3 fancy guppies 2 weeks ago. Yesterday, I wanted to add some more fancy guppies so my original batch wouldnt feel lonely, and since I didn't do any med trio on the first round of fish, I decided to just add my new fish to the tank and then do the med trio for everyone. I figured since I never did it for the first batch, it wouldn't hurt anyone to just do it for them all. After adding the med trio, about ~24 hours later my tank got super cloudy and my guppies were all at the top of the tank looking for air. I ran out and bought an airstone, which seemed to help and they are no longer up at the top of the tank. Here is my problem. After adding the med trio medicine, my nitrites got high. So I added some Fritz Zyme 7, since I figured that would neutralize the nitrite. And after adding Fritz Zyme 7, now all my numbers are at 0, as if I never had bacteria in at all. Where did I mess up? Should I change my tank water and do a fish-in cycle...? Or should I just wait it out and let the medicine do its thing? Ph is consistently 7.2 and water temp is 78 Here are some numbers: Before med Trio: Nitrates: 40 Nitrite: 0 Ammonia: 0 After med trio: Nitrates: 2.5 Nitrite: 1 Ammonia: 0 After I added Fritz Zyme 7 Nitrates: 0 Nitrite: 0 Ammonia: 0 Thanks in advance for the help!