Contant Death

[Nwycreirwy]

My guppy tank has been running for a long long long time. (over 4 yrs)
I have had babies, and raised them successfully, sent them packing to friends or stores.
I have always kept my breeding stock clean, as in, I add new fish to keep inbreeding from happening, and remove older fish to retire in a tropical community tank after a few broods.
Recently I brought home 7 new females and 3 new males.
one by one they have been dying off. one every two days or so.
parameters are all normal, (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, even my GH and KH are suitable for guppies.)
they are in a 180L tank (roughly 28 gal)
Planted
malaysian trumpet snails

I can't for the life of me figure out why they would be dying off like this. I have never had this happen before.

Like most livebearer keepers, I've had the mistaken death at the beginning of my fishkeeping hobby years and years ago from toxins during cycling, or from improper water changes. I've even had a tetra or two go the way of white spot, or ich.

This tank has been my pride and joy for years and years. Right now there are only three females in it.

has anyone got any ideas as to why they might be failing?

 

[skippy_49nz]

No idea where you are but NZ seems to have a real nasty disease at present which is wiping out everyone's guppy populations. Breeders have stopped supplying because they are going into lockdown to try to sort things out. No medication seems to be helping and they are just dying like the proverbial.

 

[clay]

i agree with skippy. i had that in my tank and all my other fish were fine but i had to fire clean my rocks and had to burn my plants and get new ones. oh and by the way fire cleaning is when you burn your rocks in your tank

 

[fry_forever!]

Are they rubbing against the ground at all? Because if so, it could be gill flukes. That happened to my guppies. I was treating for a different parasite when it turned out they had gill flukes.

Or, they could have an internal parasite. I was wondering why my livebearers weren't having babies, and why they were pooping out stringy clear and white poop. I treated them with an internal parasite medicated fish food, and the internal worms are gone now.

That is all that I can think of though.

Good luck.