In the past month I have went through 9 of my guppies.
The first guppy to go in this time period was a pregnant halfblack female guppy. She was extremely heavy and went into labour for a little over a day. She spent most of the day lying on her side struggling to move moving from one hiding spot to another. She was breathing really heavily and she appeared to be dying, but she was definitely ready to give birth. As soon as I saw her dead I tried to perform a C-Section, but none of the fry made it. I figure that she died from stress as there was too many babies to give birth to or something. She was in a filtered 10 gallon tank by herself during pregnancy.
In the next tank, which was the old half black's tank, I had her mate, and two fancy female guppies. The heater malfunctioned and the water went up to 93 degrees. They survived, but when I attempted to turn the heater down, the second drastic temperature change must have killed them.
Here are the ones I am not sure about.
I have a 10 gallon tank that had 10 guppies. Two adult moscow blacks and eight 2-3 month old moscow blue guppy fry. I came in one day to see one of the guppy fry dead stuck on the filter. I figured, my old moscow blue female had 8 fry and they all lived this long and it was just natural that they all wouldn't live a full life.
The next day, my moscow black's tailfin was half missing, it looked like the top half was torn from the bottom half. There was no sign of finrot or ick on the male. I did see a guppy fry that appeared to have ick and another fry had a large white speck on his tailfin that looked like ick, but way larger.
I put in some ick medication. The next day, another guppy fry was found dead in the tank. I also saw that tumorish/ick thing stuck on the filter and all signs of ick in the tank were gone.
The next day, my adult male in the tank was dead.
A few days later I added 7 small ghost shrimp to help in cleaning up the bottom of the tank.
My tank seemed good, and the fish seemed healthy except for the female who was just hiding behind the filter breathing heavily. She was 2-3 weeks pregnant and abnormally fat from this pregnancy.
I did some ammonia, PH, Nitrate, Nitrite and alkalinity testing and everything was fine.
A week later I found the female dead in the bottom of the tank.
A few days after that (this morning) I found another fry dead on the filter.
In September/October I purchased two Moscow Blue guppies and the female gave bith an hour into the new tank. That is where my 8 fry came from. I moved the female and the male into a 5 gallon hex and the male developed finrot I believe as his tail was bloody and his body had some open sores on it too. The male died within two days. The female died of unknown reasons a few days later.
What I want to know is why are all these guppies dying?
Also, I had quite a few guppies die before they were supposed to give birth. Both of these guppies seemed exceptionally large during their pregnancies. Could that have anything to do with it?
The first guppy to go in this time period was a pregnant halfblack female guppy. She was extremely heavy and went into labour for a little over a day. She spent most of the day lying on her side struggling to move moving from one hiding spot to another. She was breathing really heavily and she appeared to be dying, but she was definitely ready to give birth. As soon as I saw her dead I tried to perform a C-Section, but none of the fry made it. I figure that she died from stress as there was too many babies to give birth to or something. She was in a filtered 10 gallon tank by herself during pregnancy.
In the next tank, which was the old half black's tank, I had her mate, and two fancy female guppies. The heater malfunctioned and the water went up to 93 degrees. They survived, but when I attempted to turn the heater down, the second drastic temperature change must have killed them.
Here are the ones I am not sure about.
I have a 10 gallon tank that had 10 guppies. Two adult moscow blacks and eight 2-3 month old moscow blue guppy fry. I came in one day to see one of the guppy fry dead stuck on the filter. I figured, my old moscow blue female had 8 fry and they all lived this long and it was just natural that they all wouldn't live a full life.
The next day, my moscow black's tailfin was half missing, it looked like the top half was torn from the bottom half. There was no sign of finrot or ick on the male. I did see a guppy fry that appeared to have ick and another fry had a large white speck on his tailfin that looked like ick, but way larger.
I put in some ick medication. The next day, another guppy fry was found dead in the tank. I also saw that tumorish/ick thing stuck on the filter and all signs of ick in the tank were gone.
The next day, my adult male in the tank was dead.
A few days later I added 7 small ghost shrimp to help in cleaning up the bottom of the tank.
My tank seemed good, and the fish seemed healthy except for the female who was just hiding behind the filter breathing heavily. She was 2-3 weeks pregnant and abnormally fat from this pregnancy.
I did some ammonia, PH, Nitrate, Nitrite and alkalinity testing and everything was fine.
A week later I found the female dead in the bottom of the tank.
A few days after that (this morning) I found another fry dead on the filter.
In September/October I purchased two Moscow Blue guppies and the female gave bith an hour into the new tank. That is where my 8 fry came from. I moved the female and the male into a 5 gallon hex and the male developed finrot I believe as his tail was bloody and his body had some open sores on it too. The male died within two days. The female died of unknown reasons a few days later.
What I want to know is why are all these guppies dying?
Also, I had quite a few guppies die before they were supposed to give birth. Both of these guppies seemed exceptionally large during their pregnancies. Could that have anything to do with it?
