Hello everyone, this is like a continuation to my earlier thread.
The fish i have are 2 male and 1 small female guppy. Recently i noticed the two males are flashing on earthen pots and on the plants. Their fins are not clenched, they are open and extended. I do not see any difference on the bodies. I think there is a loss in apetite. Im not sure it this is the typical scratching because the plants are live, soft and flexible so it wouldn't help, or maybe they are not that intelligent.
Here is some history of the tank. I got the tank in the first week of January, not because i like fish or fish keeping or because they look nice. I got it because some one in my house bought 2 ~6cm baby red tiger oscars and put them in a 1l bowl. The bowl was there before and i had warned them against putting any fish in it. When the oscars came, i did not even look at them and stayed away, because it would be useless to care for it. I told them that the fish would die for sure within 3 days, and one of them did. I did not see this happen. They used to feed it twice a day with pellets, (for baby fish!) and change the water once a day, but the water got crappy 10-12 hours later.
I did not want the other oscar to die too so i bought a tank that i could afford 23l, and planned to put it my well when it grew too big. I also added two male guppies and the oscar did nothing to them. But when i was away it died too. Again, i did not see the removal. I was reading up on oscars during this time came to know of its 'playing dead' trick. I had observed this once. It is possible that both the oscars were mistaken for dead fish.
Now i had a 23l tank with 2 male guppies, so i added 1 more male and 2 females. A day or two later i spotted white spots on one of the males. I had crushed two grains of cooked rice in a few drops of water and fed the fish. I thought the spots might be the rice. It was a few days later that the guppies tail was begining to loose colour and separating, also some mucous trailing from its side.
I checked the symptoms online and went to the fish store, they gave me "Mr Blue". I now assume that it is methylene blue. Surely that did no good. That guppy lost the spots but died the same day. A female started showing spots, then i bought "Mr Green", hoping it was malachite green. I was also using salt to a concentration of 3 tsp per litre. The spots went but i did buy malachite green powder from a laboratory supplies store. I did not use it, waiting for "Mr Green" to work. The second day after using Mr Green, i had to go away for 3 days. When i got back the female was dead, im not sure from what. Its stomach was unusualy large earlier, and now its dead body had a missing stomach.
But the spots were gone, and have been gone for the past 14 days. And this is where the timeline joins my previous thread. I added what were supposed to be dwarf gouramies to my tank and they ended up being aggressive predators!:flamed:
Now after this long story with drama, suspense, and horror, someone please help me figure out the flashing. Is it constipation? :thud:
The fish i have are 2 male and 1 small female guppy. Recently i noticed the two males are flashing on earthen pots and on the plants. Their fins are not clenched, they are open and extended. I do not see any difference on the bodies. I think there is a loss in apetite. Im not sure it this is the typical scratching because the plants are live, soft and flexible so it wouldn't help, or maybe they are not that intelligent.
Here is some history of the tank. I got the tank in the first week of January, not because i like fish or fish keeping or because they look nice. I got it because some one in my house bought 2 ~6cm baby red tiger oscars and put them in a 1l bowl. The bowl was there before and i had warned them against putting any fish in it. When the oscars came, i did not even look at them and stayed away, because it would be useless to care for it. I told them that the fish would die for sure within 3 days, and one of them did. I did not see this happen. They used to feed it twice a day with pellets, (for baby fish!) and change the water once a day, but the water got crappy 10-12 hours later.
I did not want the other oscar to die too so i bought a tank that i could afford 23l, and planned to put it my well when it grew too big. I also added two male guppies and the oscar did nothing to them. But when i was away it died too. Again, i did not see the removal. I was reading up on oscars during this time came to know of its 'playing dead' trick. I had observed this once. It is possible that both the oscars were mistaken for dead fish.
Now i had a 23l tank with 2 male guppies, so i added 1 more male and 2 females. A day or two later i spotted white spots on one of the males. I had crushed two grains of cooked rice in a few drops of water and fed the fish. I thought the spots might be the rice. It was a few days later that the guppies tail was begining to loose colour and separating, also some mucous trailing from its side.
I checked the symptoms online and went to the fish store, they gave me "Mr Blue". I now assume that it is methylene blue. Surely that did no good. That guppy lost the spots but died the same day. A female started showing spots, then i bought "Mr Green", hoping it was malachite green. I was also using salt to a concentration of 3 tsp per litre. The spots went but i did buy malachite green powder from a laboratory supplies store. I did not use it, waiting for "Mr Green" to work. The second day after using Mr Green, i had to go away for 3 days. When i got back the female was dead, im not sure from what. Its stomach was unusualy large earlier, and now its dead body had a missing stomach.
But the spots were gone, and have been gone for the past 14 days. And this is where the timeline joins my previous thread. I added what were supposed to be dwarf gouramies to my tank and they ended up being aggressive predators!:flamed:
Now after this long story with drama, suspense, and horror, someone please help me figure out the flashing. Is it constipation? :thud:
