Ill Platy?

[dina]

For the past two weeks one of my platys (i think the female) has this strange behavior: She sits down on a certain place in the aquarium and she has folded her
fins. She only comes to the surface to eat. the male is usually at her side as if he's
protecting her. what does this behavior mean? this is a picture of my platy. she looks fine, no white spots or anything, her lungs were always a bit red (my aquarium is totally free of ammonia, i have tested it). Any help?

 

[Joby]

Hi Dina I have the same problems with a male platy I got 11 days ago. He does the same thing, sits clamped in one corner most of the time and then comes up for feeding to go back down again. Initially treated for finrot as one of the females he came with had this and they are all in the quarantine tank together. The finrot has cleared up on the female and the other female is perfectly fine. Ammonia and Nitrite are 0 and Nitrate is 10 so no obvious signs there and PH is 7.4

I have just finished the water changes this morning and he's come out and I've noticed that he's got red spots all over him! he looks like he has the measles or something it looks quite bad to me as I've never seen this before. Any ideas?

I went back to the shop at the weekend and noticed that they still had some of these fish left in the tank they came out of and they were all clamped and not looking happy

Hope your platy perks up soon Dina

 

[jams.alaskan]

You are right to be concerned - that photo is of a pretty unhappy platy. If she were mine, I would add some melafix to the water and watch her closely to see if any other symptoms show up.

ALASKA

 

[Joby]

Have been doing a little searching and think my platy has septacaemia!

It says a medicine for bacterial infection can give good results even in an advance state so fingers crossed, will be transferring him into my spare tank and treat him there. I hope whatever it was that caused it doesn't spread to the females and the 3 five week old guppies that are in the tank with him

 

[big_fresh]

some of my platies have had similar problems. May I ask how you thought of it having septacaemia? I'm worried about my own platies as they have displayed similar symptoms that you have described and last night I lost 3 platies

pH is 7.0 No Ammonia, No Nitrites and I wasn't able to do a NitrAte test yet.

 

[Joby]

I had a look through all the fish disease sites I could find and came up with a diagnosis. When looking at my platy I could see the red marks and it made me think of meningitis, like blood bruising. I have had the meds in now for 2 days and although he's coming out a little more, he's not eating and he has another large red mark on his body now. Fingers crossed the meds will help him. The 2 female platy and the 3 young guppies in the tank are all looking perfectly normal now and they had been clamping and shimmying a little too but not as bad as the male.

Sorry to hear you lost some of your guys

 

[Joby]

Well unfortunately Busby didn't make it. I found him dead an hour ago but I also found a pink platy baby swimming around! I had a pink platy and a much smaller orange one and the male was a mixture of lemon and pink. I hope he was the one that got her pregnant in the lfs. I've dropped the fry in my baby tank and its actually bigger than my 2 week old guppy fry! Wasn't quite prepared for how big they are

Hope everyone else has better luck with their platies

 

[big_fresh]

Joby, - sad to hear about your platy's passing but it's nice that she was able to leave you a reminder through the fry

Unfortunately, there is a mass die off in my main tank - it's getting quite depressing, in the past couple of days i have lost 5 platies and now my guppy isn't looking too good.

Unfortunately i don't have a spare tank coz I have put my guppy fry into the 10 gallon.

I have been racking my brain out to see what is wrong, all I can trace it back to is when my brother bought me a pair of oto's for the main tank and poured the LFS water into my tank!

He did acclimatise the fish and pour water into the bag over a period of 45 minutes, the only problem was he poured the LFS water into my tank.

So now I have put Melafix into the tank (hope it won't bust up my oto's which are probably still acclimatising to their new environment).

oops sorrry for Hijacking your thread Joby...i'll shut up now.

 

[Joby]

oh dear, you are having problems big_fresh

I'm so careful not to introduce any lfs water so I net my guys out of the their bags and I have a dedicated quarantine tank that I like to put them in for 2 weeks. Except my poor platy didn't make it out of there. They all seemed ok for the first 5 days apart from a little nick out of a tail which I thought might be fin rot. Treated for that and its better now, but then the male started acting strange. I'm glad I didn't just plonk them into my main tank as goodness knows how many I would have lost. Its frustrating to wait 2 weeks between getting new fish, but worth it in the long run I think.

You're not hijacking my thread btw, I already hijacked it off Dina haven't heard how her platy is doing, hope its ok