HELP! guppy rickets!

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Sadrienne

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One of my female guppies has rickets; I have found nothing online that says there is a cure, only prevention. They say it is from a diet deficient in calcium and vitamin D.

I would love to know if there is anything I can do to help this fish, or wether or not I should just euthanise her to keep the others any safer.

And what can I do to put these nutrients in their diet?
 
it's a genetic deformity resulting from the excessive inbreeding of guppies today. there's nothing you can do for it and feeding it a quality diet will supply all the vitamins necessary.
 
Is rickets where the backbone bends a funny way? I have an old female guppy who has this problem. It looks horrendous, so I know how you feel.
 
ok....thanks, guys. Yeah, she definitely isn't young anymore. I have another question, though. She's pregnant right now; will this affect her fry?
 
Only as far as she's passing on an undesirable genetic trait caused by too much line breeding. I suggest you cull her before she has her fry. You may consider introducing unrelated guppies to your tank for some genetic diversity.
 
well...lol. I just went to humanely put her out of her miseries, and lo and behold, she had just gone to meet her maker. So. I suppose that settles it.
 
OMFG DONT FLUSH HER THOUGH.... that is a horrible way to go..... slowly dieing from gill poisoning.... thats like being slowly gassed with kerosene fumes.... being made to inhale smoke till death..... PLZ OMFG PLZ smash her on a rock or something. do somethign where she becomes a blob of ex-fish matter... and not a dead fish... if you follow me.... be humane about it.
 
Yeah. I was going to do it quickly. I don't look well upon flushing live fish; it's a bad and slow way to go. But, she died before I had to come up with a good way to euthanize her, so hence the problem is solved.
 
. . . . a blob of ex-fish matter. . . .
 
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