My Guppys Strange Behavoiur

[evecooper]

Hi
I have a guppy, not sure if its male or female.
But the last could of days it has been laying on the bottom of the tank.
All other fish in the tank are fine and it doesn't do it all the time. I have any other guppy that doesn't do it.
Any guess why it doing it?

 

[lilfishie]

use this picture to help you sex them


also we need the following information

Tank size:
pH:
ammonia:
nitrite:
nitrate:
kH:
gH:
tank temp:

Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior):

Volume and Frequency of water changes:

Chemical Additives or Media in your tank:

Tank inhabitants:

Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration):

Exposure to chemicals:

Digital photo (include if possible):

 

[evecooper]

Tank size: 21Litres
pH: 7.0
ammonia: 0 ppm
nitrite: 0 ppm
nitrate: 40 ppm
kH: N/A
gH: N/A
tank temp: 25oC

Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): Nothing else unusal apart from sometimes spending time on the bottom of the tank

Volume and Frequency of water changes: 1/2 and every week

Chemical Additives or Media in your tank:

Tank inhabitants: 2 Catfish, 4 neons & 2 Guppys

Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): None

Exposure to chemicals: Currently using King British Fin Rot & Fungus Control for one of my catfish who has a fungus

This is the best picture i can get! Also i cant tell what sex they are as they are holding there fins up

 

[donna123]

the guppy in your pic looks male, is he eating at all?

 

[evecooper]

yeah its eating fine and is swimming around at the moment, seems to have periods where it just wants to lay on the bottom has only started doing this in the last week

 

[donna123]

hmm im not sure then, i had a male that did this a lot and swam for food when needed but he was born like this and im sure it was a swim bladder issue.

 

[lilfishie]

is the other guppy the same, if they are both male the other could be picking on him, maybe he's just old and having a rest

 

[evecooper]

No only one doing it. I have only had them both since January so dont think he's that old. there fins while swiming are tucked in but both look very pointy! so i presume they are males

 

[lilfishie]

it could be the fungus treatment effecting him somehow, due to interbreeding or there colour there immune system is much much weaker