guppler
Fish Crazy
It's been a while, but I'll add an update to the poor feeder goldies' saga.
The white lumpyness on some of their faces did seem to go away, so maybe it was a disease. The achor worm also went away and never turned up on more than the 1 fish, but I treated them all with antiparasite meds and melafix, continuing the melafix until I had the numbers down to something more reasonable, and thankfully it wasn't all due to overcrowding deaths. I sent about 10 home with my brother and his wife once I was pretty sure they were not contagious, and I think thry might have had 1 or 2 deaths, probably including 1 of the 3 brownish ones. i kept the smallest of that color, which ended up being the smallest 1 i kept. by the time tey went with my brother there was only 1 really tiny one left and when I saw it in the bag he was randomly dipping in the tank, I said something like, "Oh, you got the little one!" She suggested putting him back because I seemed to want it and some of their fish were big enough to eat it if they wanted to, but I said to go ahead and take it because I was interested in more individuals than I could keep and all the other little ones had died, (the most recent ones being some of the ones I was most attatched to and probably within the last day or 2. a white one with a red cap and one with orange and white stripes like a clown fish, complete with white face and red lips.) The littlest one they got was light orange with white cheeks and the last time I visited he was just getting brave enough to come out of hiding from the bigger fishes in the weeds most of the time, and getting bigger pretty fast. I thought they had a better chance in the pond at that point anyway. (I also spotted one of their quickly growing plecos because it was getting darker than when they usually look and don't see them.) They also got "the red one", which is about as scarlet as any fish I've seen dorsally with a white belly. I chose 4 I wanted to keep, but one of them died, so I'm left with 3. I was calling people and plac4es and even knoching on doors of people I knew had ponds, when my friend called and wanted to borrow some of the fishes back. I had mixed feelings about that and asked if her kids had any they could use, but I ended up letting her use the ones I wasn't planning to keep because she had homes for some of them after their last few hour as decorations and got the rest back to me pretty quick. She gave away most of them and i had 5 left to put into another friend's pond who had just told me she could take some. The one I lost last was almost an even mix ox orange, white, and yellow with distinct patches of each color. The ones I still have (in the 10 gallon tank in my sister's room until we move to a new/old house some time around the end of the year, at which time I'd like to put them in her new room or an outdoor pond with my 2 bigger ones) include the brownish bronzey gold one , who's name is not yet officially decided, and a light yellow one with 1 pectoral fin slightly smaller than the other (Nemo?), and a darker reddish orange one with white right arounp the eyes almost like a parrot (Polly?). My sister wanted to name them all after cousins and relatives, but Mom isn't a big fan of that idea and I don't think my sis would mind if they aren't named after relatives. It was probably just easier for her to think of familiar names, and it could be confusing or something. I've also thought about Calling some Ernie and Bert again, which Cracker and Creamscicle sort of went by for a little while just as I was seeing that "Spotty and Stripey" were not going to continue to be appropriate. My sis also likes names like star or socks, but I don't know if she would need to have both at the same time or which fish would fit those names best. Maybe i;ll get her some fancies eventuallly. The trio have been doing well for at least a few weeks now, and have grown noticably already ( still around 2 inches each). I alao decided that the only way to keep my remaining guppy tank healthy enougn was to move most of the gups to the better ballanced 30g comunity, leaving only some large females, some pretty adult boys, and thy tiniest of the fry, and sell as many cories as I could catch.
Whew!
The white lumpyness on some of their faces did seem to go away, so maybe it was a disease. The achor worm also went away and never turned up on more than the 1 fish, but I treated them all with antiparasite meds and melafix, continuing the melafix until I had the numbers down to something more reasonable, and thankfully it wasn't all due to overcrowding deaths. I sent about 10 home with my brother and his wife once I was pretty sure they were not contagious, and I think thry might have had 1 or 2 deaths, probably including 1 of the 3 brownish ones. i kept the smallest of that color, which ended up being the smallest 1 i kept. by the time tey went with my brother there was only 1 really tiny one left and when I saw it in the bag he was randomly dipping in the tank, I said something like, "Oh, you got the little one!" She suggested putting him back because I seemed to want it and some of their fish were big enough to eat it if they wanted to, but I said to go ahead and take it because I was interested in more individuals than I could keep and all the other little ones had died, (the most recent ones being some of the ones I was most attatched to and probably within the last day or 2. a white one with a red cap and one with orange and white stripes like a clown fish, complete with white face and red lips.) The littlest one they got was light orange with white cheeks and the last time I visited he was just getting brave enough to come out of hiding from the bigger fishes in the weeds most of the time, and getting bigger pretty fast. I thought they had a better chance in the pond at that point anyway. (I also spotted one of their quickly growing plecos because it was getting darker than when they usually look and don't see them.) They also got "the red one", which is about as scarlet as any fish I've seen dorsally with a white belly. I chose 4 I wanted to keep, but one of them died, so I'm left with 3. I was calling people and plac4es and even knoching on doors of people I knew had ponds, when my friend called and wanted to borrow some of the fishes back. I had mixed feelings about that and asked if her kids had any they could use, but I ended up letting her use the ones I wasn't planning to keep because she had homes for some of them after their last few hour as decorations and got the rest back to me pretty quick. She gave away most of them and i had 5 left to put into another friend's pond who had just told me she could take some. The one I lost last was almost an even mix ox orange, white, and yellow with distinct patches of each color. The ones I still have (in the 10 gallon tank in my sister's room until we move to a new/old house some time around the end of the year, at which time I'd like to put them in her new room or an outdoor pond with my 2 bigger ones) include the brownish bronzey gold one , who's name is not yet officially decided, and a light yellow one with 1 pectoral fin slightly smaller than the other (Nemo?), and a darker reddish orange one with white right arounp the eyes almost like a parrot (Polly?). My sister wanted to name them all after cousins and relatives, but Mom isn't a big fan of that idea and I don't think my sis would mind if they aren't named after relatives. It was probably just easier for her to think of familiar names, and it could be confusing or something. I've also thought about Calling some Ernie and Bert again, which Cracker and Creamscicle sort of went by for a little while just as I was seeing that "Spotty and Stripey" were not going to continue to be appropriate. My sis also likes names like star or socks, but I don't know if she would need to have both at the same time or which fish would fit those names best. Maybe i;ll get her some fancies eventuallly. The trio have been doing well for at least a few weeks now, and have grown noticably already ( still around 2 inches each). I alao decided that the only way to keep my remaining guppy tank healthy enougn was to move most of the gups to the better ballanced 30g comunity, leaving only some large females, some pretty adult boys, and thy tiniest of the fry, and sell as many cories as I could catch.
Whew!
