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Old December 10th, 2006  
Fish Keeper
 
split tails

My finacee and I are sort of sharing this account so any questions for her tank I will be posting. Anyway, I have an issue with my two male guppies, one of the guppies had a split tail right down the center and the other it was on the bottom of the tail. I'm really confused about this,it does not look like fin nipping. other than the two guppies there is 1 bamboo shrimp and 1 white cloud any ideas

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Old December 11th, 2006  
Fish Keeper
 
Re: split tails

I think it's a fin rot. One of my guppy has the same problem.
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Old December 11th, 2006  
Fish Keeper
 
Re: split tails

it is definately not fin rot i can personally tell u that it isn't that they have problems with each other much...its more like they cut them selves some how...

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Old December 12th, 2006  
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Re: split tails

Is there any decor in the tank they could have caught their tails on? Guppys with flowey tails have some of the same problems Bettas do with tearing their tails.
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Old December 12th, 2006  
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Re: split tails

I found out that my guppy got stuck between my power filter and the aquarium glass.
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Old December 12th, 2006  
Tom
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Re: split tails

Also there are different types of guppies.
http://www.peteducation.com/article....articleid=2643
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Old December 12th, 2006  
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Re: split tails

alright well the only thing that i can think of that they could get their little tails would the ammonia alert by seachem tonight when we got home she noticed that one of them had another tear in its tail i'm stumped i removed the ammonia alert to see if that helps at all but i'm kind of sceptical any ideas?

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Old December 12th, 2006  
Fish Keeper
 
Re: split tails

I bet it's because of the filter or decoration. My guppies are always getting stuck the most unusual ways.
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Old December 13th, 2006  
Fish Keeper
 
Re: split tails

We have also noticed that yuri, the who seems to be more domant, is picking on snowflake, the one with the split tail in multiple places. Also is there anything that can be done about the split tails with a bamboo shrimp and white cload in the tank?? Thanx

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Old February 18th, 2007  
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Re: split tails

One thing that I used for my betta actually, when he came from the LFS his fins were a bit ragged. I put in Melafix for 7 days (according to the bottle) and now his fins are all healed. I would give it a try.
Hope this helps
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Old February 18th, 2007  
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Re: split tails

Melefix would not work in this tank due to the fact that there is an invert in it the melefix would actually kill the poor guy. One of the guppies actually died from something unrelated to the fins and the other one is fine!

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