Dead Guppy!

[guppymonkey]

Well my male guppy (Monkey) is dead. His tail just became shredded and looked like it fell off! At first I thought it was nipping from the new dwarf gourami I got. But after I separated the two fish the tail continued to fall off. I tried using Melafix for it but I guess it didn't help. Yesterday afternoon I came home and found Monkey tangled into one of my plants dead. At the end he had absolutely no tail left at all. I am wondering if it was something besides nipping because he had half his tail left when I separated the fish and then it kept disappearing. It hasn't affected any of my other fish though. Still, its a sad day in my tank.

 

[ruffmeister]

sorry to hear the allmighty monkey is sadly not with us, could it have been fin rot at all? which does shred the tails of guppys
sorry again

 

[Aqua_Princess64]

fin or tail rot is what I would say.

 

[ruffmeister]

looks that way dunnit

 

[Juggernaut22988]

The tails dont really fall off do they?

 

[ruffmeister]

yup but finrot usually has redness on the tail like blood, it can be cured if its caught before the base of the tail

 

[Juggernaut22988]

I am not going to get guppies then

 

[guppymonkey]

Finrot doesn't ALWAYS happen. Unfortunately for me it hit my male guppy. I still think that his tail was nipped and that lead to his downfall. But to add a little happiness to a sad story, last night after I got home from work I found some little guppy fry had been born to my female. So even though I lost Monkey the Guppy his genetics will live on in further generations of guppies that will be named Monkey.

 

[Juggernaut22988]

I asked my lfs and they said the guppies do lose tails when they die (after death)
I bought some finrot meds just incase my platies get in trouble