Madi's Platy
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Over the past month we have lost 3 zebra danios and it looks like 2 more are going to die. Their bodies just started to look bent, their tails just shot up in the air when they were staying still. They had no other symptoms aside from becoming less active. We have also just lost a platy, she looked like she just wasted away and eventually couldn't even keep herself balanced so we had to euthanize her. She too, never showed any other signs of illness.
Water parameters are 0 on ammonia, nitrite, nitrate PH just under 7 temp was about 76, but I just raised it to 80.
We don't add chemicals, but did treat for ich on April 26th.
Tank mates are currently 5 platys, 5 red and blue columbian tetras, 4 corys and 9 zebra danios.
tank size is a 45 gallon tall
most recently added fish were 5 of the danios we adopted from a friend just about a month ago, but after the first fish showed signs of bending.
Being a paranoid person, I've convinced myself that it is t.b., but everything that I have read says that there are usually ulcers with this. If anyone has any suggestions/thoughts I would really appreciate the help.
Water parameters are 0 on ammonia, nitrite, nitrate PH just under 7 temp was about 76, but I just raised it to 80.
We don't add chemicals, but did treat for ich on April 26th.
Tank mates are currently 5 platys, 5 red and blue columbian tetras, 4 corys and 9 zebra danios.
tank size is a 45 gallon tall
most recently added fish were 5 of the danios we adopted from a friend just about a month ago, but after the first fish showed signs of bending.
Being a paranoid person, I've convinced myself that it is t.b., but everything that I have read says that there are usually ulcers with this. If anyone has any suggestions/thoughts I would really appreciate the help.
sorry cant help but want to get in on this thread, i'm having the same problem, stats all the same as yours, but having the same problem, i also started looking at fish tb, and from what i can gather ulcers are optional!!! However most literature suggested fish tb is rare but appears to be on the increase, hang in there, i know exactly how you feel.
Maybe it could be Neon Tetra Disease (which other tetras and I believe also others like danios can get). Symptoms include a bent spine, sluggishness, & losing colouration in certain patches or generally, & sometimes difficulty swimming, + they can get cysts/ulcers, too. I think this is a parasitic problem but I could be wrong. False Neon Tetra Disease is bacterial but I believe it shows much the same symptoms. 
