Hey.
With my tank I started with a male and 2 female Platies and a zebra loach.
Three weeks later, introduced a second zebra loach, 4 barbs and a sucker which I can't remember the specific name of now. I'll try and get a decent photo of him and the barbs to upload, but the barbs are a brownish yellow, with a red line down each side with black dots either end of that line. Clear fins with black markings.
We noticed one of my female platies looking a bit sickly, so put into a seperate tank after watching the barbs and other female platy nipping at her. She's lost almost all of her tail and has very thin side fins now. Struggling to move and stay upright. She's been in her seperate tank for 24hrs now. Managing to eat but seems very unwell. Considering if its best to leave her recover if possible, get some medication for her, or call it a day for her and euthanize.
Interestingly, activity had decreased quite a lot in the tank, but since removing the sick/injured platy, the community has come back to life again, but my platies seem to be bullying eachother (not like their mating behaviour a few weeks ago!)
My loaches and sucker keep themselves to themselves, the barbs swim around eachother and they chase everything else off during feeding. In fact, now the platies will wait for the barbs to finish eating their share before going in themselves and the loaches and sucker will wait for everyone to finish before getting the bits off the bottom/ornaments that the barbs and platies missed.
Maidenhead aquatics have guided me through the entire process and suggested which fish to keep together. I was advised they would all be fine in a community and advised on the amount given my 80ltr tank.
My seperate tank that my platy is currently in is only 9ltr.
With my tank I started with a male and 2 female Platies and a zebra loach.
Three weeks later, introduced a second zebra loach, 4 barbs and a sucker which I can't remember the specific name of now. I'll try and get a decent photo of him and the barbs to upload, but the barbs are a brownish yellow, with a red line down each side with black dots either end of that line. Clear fins with black markings.
We noticed one of my female platies looking a bit sickly, so put into a seperate tank after watching the barbs and other female platy nipping at her. She's lost almost all of her tail and has very thin side fins now. Struggling to move and stay upright. She's been in her seperate tank for 24hrs now. Managing to eat but seems very unwell. Considering if its best to leave her recover if possible, get some medication for her, or call it a day for her and euthanize.
Interestingly, activity had decreased quite a lot in the tank, but since removing the sick/injured platy, the community has come back to life again, but my platies seem to be bullying eachother (not like their mating behaviour a few weeks ago!)
My loaches and sucker keep themselves to themselves, the barbs swim around eachother and they chase everything else off during feeding. In fact, now the platies will wait for the barbs to finish eating their share before going in themselves and the loaches and sucker will wait for everyone to finish before getting the bits off the bottom/ornaments that the barbs and platies missed.
Maidenhead aquatics have guided me through the entire process and suggested which fish to keep together. I was advised they would all be fine in a community and advised on the amount given my 80ltr tank.
My seperate tank that my platy is currently in is only 9ltr.
