HELP! My guppy is dying!

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Hey guys I did a water change this morning and previously had 4 guppies in my community tank. Water parameters are 0ppm nitrite and ammonia and 5ppm nitrate. I can’t fjnd one guppy now and the other is acting incredibly erratically. He’s swimming at an angle and very weak before starting to the surface and down to bottom photos attached. What’s happened! What should I do. I did act dechloronator to water as well and I purchased these guppies 4 days ago

 

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Update: both guppies are dead- I’m so scared what has happened! The other two seem fine all parameters are fine what on earth had happened

 

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I'm so sorry about your loss. I'm sure that @Colin_T will helo you. What are other symptoms?

 

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I'm so sorry about your loss. I'm sure that @Colin_T will helo you. What are other symptoms?

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They looked like they were floating, they couldn’t swim properly and they seemed to die very quickly. I’m wondering if it’s swim bladder disease

 

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I think it’s swim bladder disease. The vertical swimming the holding itself in the reeds of the floating plants all suggest to me that it must be, but 2 of the guppies I bought had it

 

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Swim bladder is not passed on other fish I believe?

 

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Swim bladder is not passed on other fish I believe?

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I’m almost certain now it’s dropsy (

 

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Dropsy is not passed to other fish either. Any pineconing on them? Swelling?

 

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Dropsy is not passed to other fish either. Any pineconing on them? Swelling?

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They did have swollen bellies

 

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They did have swollen bellies

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Any pineconing?

 

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No. I read that dropsy caused by bacterial infection can be highly infectious. I added in almond leaves. Is there anyway anything to do with these leaves could impact the fish?

 

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Went from an amazing day with babies yesterday to today finding female guppies with what seems like could be dropsy and dead ( I’m now terrified all the other fish in the tank are gonna die

 

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Is there any pineconing? Portruding scales? Looking like a pine cone? No, dropsy is not a infectious disease.

 

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Is there any pineconing? Portruding scales? Looking like a pine cone? No, dropsy is not a infectious disease.

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3 of the guppies I have have all died and the last is a male. I pulled him out immediately and it looks like he is missing some scales now