Is this fin rot?

[PheonixKingZ]

What do you feed him? Are any of the other guppies showing these symptoms?

 

[mbsqw1d]

I use Fluval BIO Enhancer which is supposed to help with those....Will Prime do everything? I.e. The only chemical I need to add at change time?

Yep, I only use Prime (well, and ferts for the plants)

 

[Nemo2182]

What do you feed him? Are any of the other guppies showing these symptoms?

Flake, but I have three different types lol. I also give them some grinded up freeze-dried bloodworm and micro pellets. They also munch the catfish pellets and algae pellets for shrimp... I obviously dont chuck it all in, generally flake for gups and pellet for cats. Every couple of days i change catfish pellets for shrimp pellets, as both cats and shrimp share the food

 

[Nemo2182]

Yep, I only use Prime (well, and ferts for the plants)

Ordered

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Flake, but I have three different types lol. I also give them some grinded up freeze-dried bloodworm and micro pellets. They also munch the catfish pellets and algae pellets for shrimp... I obviously dont chuck it all in, generally flake for gups and pellet for cats. Every couple of days i change catfish pellets for shrimp pellets, as both cats and shrimp share the food

What brand?

Did you recently change brands of food?

 

[mbsqw1d]

Ordered

Seachem should send me a free bottle for the amount of free advertising i do for them! lol

500ml bottle is about £15 and 1 cap (5ml) treats 200 litres tap water. Its good stuff. And makes you realise how much of a con some other condioners out there are..

 

[Nemo2182]

What brand?

Did you recently change brands of food?

I did actually. I just tried King British for a few days and then went back to Tetra guppy mini flakes

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I did actually. I just tried King British for a few days and then went back to Tetra guppy mini flakes

It could be because you changed foods all of a sudden. but that doesn't explain why the others aren't showing symptoms.

I will look into this more.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Ok, found this from an old thread:

Pictures of the fish?

Clamped fins is normally caused by poor water quality.
What is the ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH of the tank water?

Are the fish eating?
What do you feed them?
How often do you feed them?

What does their poop look like?
If their poop is white and stringy there is a problem. If it's coloured then it's fine.

As @Colin_T said, clamped fins are cursed by poor water quality - in my search, I found repeatedly that he said to do large daily water changes for a week until they it gets better.

What does his poop look like?

 

[Nemo2182]

I might just give them a couple of days off food. See if his belly goes down. It was more his tail. Problem is I have 5 boys. Two are very dominant and chase the others. I read that not feeding boys to much gives them reason to stop fighting, as they go searching for food to eat

 

[Nemo2182]

Ok, found this from an old thread:


As @Colin_T said, clamped fins are cursed by poor water quality - in my search, I found repeatedly that he said to do large daily water changes for a week until they it gets better.

What does his poop look like?

Fine. And I did water test earlier and apart from nitrate being a little higher, all looked good. Water cant be bad in two 3 days surely. I do 50% changes as well

 

[PheonixKingZ]

I might just give them a couple of days off food. See if his belly goes down. It was more his tail. Problem is I have 5 boys. Two are very dominant and chase the others. I read that not feeding boys to much gives them reason to stop fighting, as they go searching for food to eat

Well... guppies should be kept in a 2:1 ratio. (2 females for every male)

That could be the problem - he is stressed out because he keeps getting chased by other males.

holding off feeding for 2-3 days sounds good. Monitor them and let us know if you see any changes.

 

[Nemo2182]

Well... guppies should be kept in a 2:1 ratio. (2 females for every male)

That could be the problem - he is stressed out because he keeps getting chased by other males.

holding off feeding for 2-3 days sounds good. Monitor them and let us know if you see any changes.

I really dont want fry lol. And I heard the females get continually harassed

 

[Nemo2182]

And without being harse to the ladies....they arent pretty like the boys

 

[Nemo2182]

Maybe if my wife comes round to the 4ft 200+ Litre tank I want then, then maybe I can chuck a few females in lol