I have been reading this forum now for a few months, and have learned a lot!! We seem to be having a few problems with our fairly new 30 gallon tank. It is fully cycled (did the fishless cycle with amonia), amonia is 0, nitrites are 0, temp is 76 (I'm not even sure exactly what the temp should be...)
Anyway, last week I had 3 danios and 2 otos in the tank. I added 1 dwarf gourami, 3 platys, 4 guppies, and 3 more danios. I think that was on Tuesday... A few days later I found one of the guppies dead, but didn't think much of it because he didn't really seem right from the beginning (hid most of the time). Saturday I lost the gourami, and am completely puzzled about that because he seemed fine even that morning. Now today one of the surviving guppies seems to have yellow on most of his body and his mouth, and looks like there is a cut on the top of his body. I'm almost positive he wasn't like that before, as he is blue and it just doesn't look right. The only thing I could find that it might be is velvet, but it doesn't look fuzzy to me so I don't know. He's also chasing the platys and almost seems to be biting them, which he hasn't done at all until today. Please help! I don't know what we're doing wrong! This is getting so frustrating...We've tried to do everything right (to the best of our knowledge), but it seems like we're missing something.
Also, about the gourami, we also had a dwarf in a 10 gallon and lost him as well after about a week. Is there something special that they need? I thought they were not supposed to be really any more difficult than the other tropicals, and haven't seen any special treatment that we should have been doing. To be honest, I never saw either of them eat, but ya can't force feed a fish...
Anyway, last week I had 3 danios and 2 otos in the tank. I added 1 dwarf gourami, 3 platys, 4 guppies, and 3 more danios. I think that was on Tuesday... A few days later I found one of the guppies dead, but didn't think much of it because he didn't really seem right from the beginning (hid most of the time). Saturday I lost the gourami, and am completely puzzled about that because he seemed fine even that morning. Now today one of the surviving guppies seems to have yellow on most of his body and his mouth, and looks like there is a cut on the top of his body. I'm almost positive he wasn't like that before, as he is blue and it just doesn't look right. The only thing I could find that it might be is velvet, but it doesn't look fuzzy to me so I don't know. He's also chasing the platys and almost seems to be biting them, which he hasn't done at all until today. Please help! I don't know what we're doing wrong! This is getting so frustrating...We've tried to do everything right (to the best of our knowledge), but it seems like we're missing something.
Also, about the gourami, we also had a dwarf in a 10 gallon and lost him as well after about a week. Is there something special that they need? I thought they were not supposed to be really any more difficult than the other tropicals, and haven't seen any special treatment that we should have been doing. To be honest, I never saw either of them eat, but ya can't force feed a fish...
