Guppy in hospital tank

[Alien Anna]

I've got a male guppy in my 5 gal hospital tank. He'd been acting a little odd in his home tank, which he shares with other male guppies and mollies. He'd been sitting on the bottom, he'd been hiding a lot and I didn't get the impression he was eating properly. I was also under the misapprehension that guppies were schooling fish (darn LFS getting it wrong again).

He has some white markings and I was worried it was fungus or ich, so I put him in the hospital tank and treated him with some fungus and finrot cure. Since then he's been absolutely fine, although he does tend to swim to the front and stare out, like the Prisoner of Zenda, which gives me the impression he isn't happy there.

I now need that hospital tank as a quarantine tank for some new SAEs and tetras I'm getting, so I need that guppy to go elsewhere. My suspicion is that he was being bullied in my livebearer tank so if I could tackle the bullying, he could go back there. Alternatively, he could go on his own in my tetra and gourami tank. I have rummy-nosed tetras, cardinal tetras and pearl gouramis in that tank, so nothing terribly aggressive.

Which would be best?

 

[MountGuppy]

i would say the gouramis tank unless you could get rid of the bullys in the livbeares tank that would be better

 

[sandyd]

I was wondering who is in the livebearer tank with him that is bothering him? I learned the hard way that my girls were nipping at the males only because i did not use the rule of 2 to 3 females for each male. The females would just get sick of being chased and turn on the males.
Sandy

 

[Alien Anna]

SandyD,
due to bad advice I received I have 8 male guppies and no females in my tank with the mollies and SAEs. Mostly its worked out because 7 of the guppies get on fine, but it appears that this one is the black sheep or something, because everyone picks on him.

I'm now considering acclimatising the odd guppy to pH 6.5 and getting putting him in my tetra and gourami tank.

 

[sandyd]

Sorry to hear that you have all of those males, but they are beautiful i am sure. Males are very pretty in my opinion. Sometimes i get so angry with lfs sales people, but i make sure i go in and tell them what i learned so hopefully they will not give the same advice again. I have never kept gouramis so i would not know how they would get along. Sorry. I do keep tetras, and as long as they are left alone, they usaully dont bother the others in the tank. They just like their own space. Good luck and let us know how it goes. Sandy