guppy crisis

Ok so exactly how many fish are in this tank? The way your post reads you have 4 adults and some fry. Are you losing the adults and how long have they been in the tank? Are the fry doing ok? I ask this because when I first got started in guppies every fish that I got from 3 different stores died with the exact same symptons. But I did get some fry before the deaths.
 
well, at the very beginning I had 20 fry in the tank. Some of then grew up and some died. So at one point I had about 8 juvenile (5 male and 3 female) and they give birth to the next generation. I moved the fry to a large tank and fries are doing OK. However, after giving birth the juvenile started dying. So i have to buy some adults from the store. Some female came back preganant and give birth and the dead and showing some combination of fin rot and body shape change. the males die also with some sort of fin rot symptom (although I have used anti-bacteria to treat the water). Overall, none of the adult lasted more than 5 weeks in my tank. Did this happen to you when you first started? How did you solve the problem?
 
Yes it did. Like I stated before I went to 3 different stores all of the guppies died within a month. I tried every thing from triple sulfa to salt nothing helped. But I did get some fry and thats what I raised. So you have some fry I would just let them grow up.
If you can try to keep more females than males. The males will harrass the females to death. I try to keep them seperate, I have a 20 gal group tank, a 10 with 1 red male and and 15 females, a 29 gal female only,a 20 gal male only, a 10 gal breeding and a 10 and 5 fry tanks. This all started from the 10 to 15 fry I got from the fish that died.
I talked to alot of people when I first got started and no one could come up with a reason why so many deaths. The answers I got were stress from being moved, weaker strains and a bunch more. I hoped Ive helped you. If you would like to talk more email me. Tim
 
Tim,

Thanks so much for your help! I guess we had experienced the same situation with guppies. I've tried pretty much everything to get the guppies pass the critical first months. Hopefully, the future generations will do better than their ancestors. I am sure I will talk to you more down the road. Hopefully I can breed some colorful guppies just as you did.

Best,

Frank
 
I have been reading in other boards and at the local fish shop that the guppies are not as strong as they were only 5 years ago. If thats true it could be like you said stress, also I look but don't buy at your dept. store pet sections the fish nor at the super pet stores, the fish never have looked healthy to start with and they are kept with a central filtering system so disease flys through the entire system. I would suspect over crowding is also possible. Something to try would be airating the water to see if the health improves also.
 
my five gallon tank must be a death tank or something I have lost all the fish now in it was doing 20 percent water changes to keep one little guppy alive in it as the others had died

I am wondering if I should clean it out again recycle the tank, retest params and try a diff. fish or try guppies again maybe buy feeder fish
 
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you know I have been having the same problems... new fry and new store bought ones... fancy or plain jane still havn't found out the source of the problem... for some reason I think it may be due to lack of calcium... if your symptoms are anywhere like mine, they seem to lose mobility in their back half of the body... then the back half just seems to start to 'rot' then they die, it seems like they're back half just all of a sudden seems to lose everything from energy, to stablilty
 
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