funkiichiicka
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We have had our water tested by the fish store a million times, and they say it's fine. We also have a 6 in 1 kit for the house, and everything is fine with that too. We have a 63 litre tank. We do not have any artificial plants/rocks. All real. The people in our fish store keep saying our water is fine and there's no need to worry. But obviously, we have to worry because we've already had 3 fish die on us and 1 near-death. I would really appreciate some advice, please. Thanks.
Problem 1:
We had 1 male and 3 females, and this is the 3rd day we have had them. They were all fine on the first day, but on the second day, I saw that the male was hiding behind the plants, sitting on the gravel. When he got up, I saw (what looked like) poo hanging from underneath him. It was short, brown and a little bit thick. A little later on, I saw more stringy stuff hanging from him. It was white and trailed behind him when he chose to swim. I also noticed, that when he swims, it's like he is shivering/shaking, and not swimming all flowy like the other guppies. He was eating fine.
Today, the male didn't eat and has been sitting in front of the log we have in the middle of the tank all day. Just lying on top of the gravel.
Also, today, I noticed that one of the females had a long thin stringy thing coming from underneath it whenever she swam. It was white-ish at the top. Then browny-red at the end. Looked gross. However, when I fed the fish, she was there with the other fish (minus the male) rushing to eat the food, still with that random stuff coming out of her. About half hour after she had eaten, I noticed the trail had disappeared and there was just a really short white string coming out of her instead. She was swimming fine.
However, a few hours ago, she started alternating between sitting on the gravel and hovering all around the tank, blowing bubbles at the surface of the water. An hour ago, Coincidentally about a minute before we were going to go to the fish store to see what's going on in my tank, my sister saw the female fish was dead, which I did not believe at first as she was alive the last time I looked (and I look at the tank so often it's stupid). But she was lying there, colourless, not breathing at all.
Problem 2 (currently being resolved):
We have 4 neon tetras. Yesterday, I saw that one of them looked kind of dusty, and when I managed to look a bit closely at it, it looked like white spots (which I have read a bit about). Today, it looks like that fish has even more spots on it now, however, he is not acting like anything is wrong with him. In fact, he seems like the happiest fish in the tank. Today, I've also noticed that another tetra has started to get those white spots too. We have now bought white spot treatment and have put them into the tank.
Questions:
How did the female guppy die before the male, when the male seems to have been suffering for longer? What causes the problems that my guppies were/are having? What causes the problem that my tetras are having? How can these issues be prevented?
Background information:
My tank has been up and running for probably just over 5 weeks now. In the 3rd week, we originally bought 2 (male) dwarf gouramis and 4 neon tetras. 1 tetra started being a loner, didn't eat etc, died within about 4 days. Then, literally the day after that, another tetra started being a loner, not eating etc, died after about 3 days. All other fish were fine, except for the gouramis who fought alot. We had one really aggressive one who picked on the other gourami, so the other one hid alot and didn't eat. One morning, went downstairs to feed the fish and found the non-aggressive one vertical, face down in the gravel behind the filter (how, I have no idea!) We nudged the filter so we could try remove the 'dead' fish. Only, he wasn't dead, he magically started trying to swim. So, he was alive, but kept lying on the ground, wasn't able to swim properly, but he lasted the whole night. The next day, we decided to take BOTH gouramis back, and we hadn't had them for long. As a replacement, we bought 1 male guppy, 3 female guppies and 2 more neon tetras for the remaining two tetras to play with...
Problem 1:
We had 1 male and 3 females, and this is the 3rd day we have had them. They were all fine on the first day, but on the second day, I saw that the male was hiding behind the plants, sitting on the gravel. When he got up, I saw (what looked like) poo hanging from underneath him. It was short, brown and a little bit thick. A little later on, I saw more stringy stuff hanging from him. It was white and trailed behind him when he chose to swim. I also noticed, that when he swims, it's like he is shivering/shaking, and not swimming all flowy like the other guppies. He was eating fine.
Today, the male didn't eat and has been sitting in front of the log we have in the middle of the tank all day. Just lying on top of the gravel.
Also, today, I noticed that one of the females had a long thin stringy thing coming from underneath it whenever she swam. It was white-ish at the top. Then browny-red at the end. Looked gross. However, when I fed the fish, she was there with the other fish (minus the male) rushing to eat the food, still with that random stuff coming out of her. About half hour after she had eaten, I noticed the trail had disappeared and there was just a really short white string coming out of her instead. She was swimming fine.
However, a few hours ago, she started alternating between sitting on the gravel and hovering all around the tank, blowing bubbles at the surface of the water. An hour ago, Coincidentally about a minute before we were going to go to the fish store to see what's going on in my tank, my sister saw the female fish was dead, which I did not believe at first as she was alive the last time I looked (and I look at the tank so often it's stupid). But she was lying there, colourless, not breathing at all.
Problem 2 (currently being resolved):
We have 4 neon tetras. Yesterday, I saw that one of them looked kind of dusty, and when I managed to look a bit closely at it, it looked like white spots (which I have read a bit about). Today, it looks like that fish has even more spots on it now, however, he is not acting like anything is wrong with him. In fact, he seems like the happiest fish in the tank. Today, I've also noticed that another tetra has started to get those white spots too. We have now bought white spot treatment and have put them into the tank.
Questions:
How did the female guppy die before the male, when the male seems to have been suffering for longer? What causes the problems that my guppies were/are having? What causes the problem that my tetras are having? How can these issues be prevented?
Background information:
My tank has been up and running for probably just over 5 weeks now. In the 3rd week, we originally bought 2 (male) dwarf gouramis and 4 neon tetras. 1 tetra started being a loner, didn't eat etc, died within about 4 days. Then, literally the day after that, another tetra started being a loner, not eating etc, died after about 3 days. All other fish were fine, except for the gouramis who fought alot. We had one really aggressive one who picked on the other gourami, so the other one hid alot and didn't eat. One morning, went downstairs to feed the fish and found the non-aggressive one vertical, face down in the gravel behind the filter (how, I have no idea!) We nudged the filter so we could try remove the 'dead' fish. Only, he wasn't dead, he magically started trying to swim. So, he was alive, but kept lying on the ground, wasn't able to swim properly, but he lasted the whole night. The next day, we decided to take BOTH gouramis back, and we hadn't had them for long. As a replacement, we bought 1 male guppy, 3 female guppies and 2 more neon tetras for the remaining two tetras to play with...
Bed time for me now..
