Hello,
During the last 5 days we'll say my guppies have dieing almost daily
I think it's velvet but i'm not 100%
The symptoms are the closest I can find to my situation
One of the female guppies had some of her flesh kind of flaked up and her tail fin was collapsed (like they do when they're in distress or hiding...they kind of crunch up their tail fin and just sit in the corner of the tank)
The next day she seemed to be better but now in the past 5 days there have been about 6 casualties so far
Yesterday night I had to actually euthanize (sp) my first fish ever because this guppy looked so terrible I couldn't bear to watch it anymore...she was absolutely covered in like white silk looking slime on her entire body and had these greenish spots all over her tail fin...her flesh was also flaked up and she was struggling to swim (swimming with her whole body and not her tail)
This guppy was fine 24 hours prior to yesterday...whatever this is it spread fast and violently and I'm worried if I dont treat it quickly...it could end up wiping my whole tank out
In the tank I have my snail population that I use to feed my clowns (which I've refrained from doing since this disease popped up in the guppy tank)
I know malachite green will kill snails...so I need options
1. I buy a new tank and put all the fish from that tank in there to treat the disease (now that I think about it...moving the snails would probably be a lot easier and not so much of a bioload)
2. Some medicine that won't be lethal to snails and will clear this stuff up
I'm still not even sure if I've pinpointed the disease itself...but it's the closest symptom relation I can find on the net
I do have a new 55g that is still in the midst of being setup so that is an option...maybe to move all the snails to that tank for the time being and dose the 15g tank without the snails inside
I need help...whatever it is it's very fast to totally dominate the fish and they don't even look like fish within 24 hours..almost like all their flesh is rotting and flaking up
It kind of looks like velvet with a splash of ich...but the spots are more of a greenish tinge than white (if that makes any sense)
On a side note...the big female guppy that started with this disease was able to shake it off and she's now fine so far as I saw this morning...which was quite surprising to see
As always
Thank you in advance,
Taylor
During the last 5 days we'll say my guppies have dieing almost daily
I think it's velvet but i'm not 100%
The symptoms are the closest I can find to my situation
One of the female guppies had some of her flesh kind of flaked up and her tail fin was collapsed (like they do when they're in distress or hiding...they kind of crunch up their tail fin and just sit in the corner of the tank)
The next day she seemed to be better but now in the past 5 days there have been about 6 casualties so far
Yesterday night I had to actually euthanize (sp) my first fish ever because this guppy looked so terrible I couldn't bear to watch it anymore...she was absolutely covered in like white silk looking slime on her entire body and had these greenish spots all over her tail fin...her flesh was also flaked up and she was struggling to swim (swimming with her whole body and not her tail)
This guppy was fine 24 hours prior to yesterday...whatever this is it spread fast and violently and I'm worried if I dont treat it quickly...it could end up wiping my whole tank out
In the tank I have my snail population that I use to feed my clowns (which I've refrained from doing since this disease popped up in the guppy tank)
I know malachite green will kill snails...so I need options
1. I buy a new tank and put all the fish from that tank in there to treat the disease (now that I think about it...moving the snails would probably be a lot easier and not so much of a bioload)
2. Some medicine that won't be lethal to snails and will clear this stuff up
I'm still not even sure if I've pinpointed the disease itself...but it's the closest symptom relation I can find on the net
I do have a new 55g that is still in the midst of being setup so that is an option...maybe to move all the snails to that tank for the time being and dose the 15g tank without the snails inside
I need help...whatever it is it's very fast to totally dominate the fish and they don't even look like fish within 24 hours..almost like all their flesh is rotting and flaking up
It kind of looks like velvet with a splash of ich...but the spots are more of a greenish tinge than white (if that makes any sense)
On a side note...the big female guppy that started with this disease was able to shake it off and she's now fine so far as I saw this morning...which was quite surprising to see
As always
Thank you in advance,
Taylor