Jasperwolf
Mostly New Member
I'm a new member, so I'm very sorry if I have posted this in the wrong section.
About 2 months ago I had around ten guppies in a 35 litre marina then slowly one by one they started disappearing. I'm afraid my tank wasn't in the best condition, but lately three have died in the last month or two. My tank was set up for about two years with very few losses and then suddenly they all disappeared. The first of the three became pine coned, and died. The last two became pale and wouldn't rise to the top of the tank. They could still swim but they refused to eat and became thin.
All my fish were becoming less colourful than they originally had been, I thought it may have been because they weren't getting much light as my window doesn't really get much light and lately in winter in England there hasn't been much anyway. The Marina's light was also broken. So unfortunately I chose a smaller tank of 28 litre that while the water quality would be harder to keep, I believed I would be able to do water changes more easily.
I filled up the tank with 50% of the water from the last tank and cleaned everything and my tank looked lovely. However last night I noticed a red spot on the tip of my guppy's tail. It wasn't like the tail had red dye, more like a little ball of red. This morning I looked and the guppy is even paler with a small red streak in the tail.
I have done hours of research and I believe it is septicaemia but I am not sure! My last ones became even sicker when I took them out and put them in a spare gallon bowl and I believe they were cold so I didn't want to do the same so he is currently floating in a small cup at the top of the tank to keep him warm.
I was thinking of putting Interpet no.9 anti internal bacteria in the tank. Would this be ok and should I treat the whole tank? I thought I should as they might have it too. Any other suggestions?
About 2 months ago I had around ten guppies in a 35 litre marina then slowly one by one they started disappearing. I'm afraid my tank wasn't in the best condition, but lately three have died in the last month or two. My tank was set up for about two years with very few losses and then suddenly they all disappeared. The first of the three became pine coned, and died. The last two became pale and wouldn't rise to the top of the tank. They could still swim but they refused to eat and became thin.
All my fish were becoming less colourful than they originally had been, I thought it may have been because they weren't getting much light as my window doesn't really get much light and lately in winter in England there hasn't been much anyway. The Marina's light was also broken. So unfortunately I chose a smaller tank of 28 litre that while the water quality would be harder to keep, I believed I would be able to do water changes more easily.
I filled up the tank with 50% of the water from the last tank and cleaned everything and my tank looked lovely. However last night I noticed a red spot on the tip of my guppy's tail. It wasn't like the tail had red dye, more like a little ball of red. This morning I looked and the guppy is even paler with a small red streak in the tail.
I have done hours of research and I believe it is septicaemia but I am not sure! My last ones became even sicker when I took them out and put them in a spare gallon bowl and I believe they were cold so I didn't want to do the same so he is currently floating in a small cup at the top of the tank to keep him warm.
I was thinking of putting Interpet no.9 anti internal bacteria in the tank. Would this be ok and should I treat the whole tank? I thought I should as they might have it too. Any other suggestions?
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He just wanted to rule out you losing the beneficial bacteria from not keeping the filter media.
