Catching Snail With Salad, Can It Be Harmful For Fish? Or Stressed Fish Over Not Liking Each Other

Hello. SO those of you who know my problems with guppy you know that I recently bought two female guppy as companion to my last male guppy. Amongst all these problems (females are bullying him, he keeps hiding so I will probably return them tomorrow) I also have infestation of small snails who keep breeding and I can't get rid of them. So I found online that I can put salad inside for overnight, in the morning take it out and kill the snails on the salad. I did this few weeks ago for every night for two weeks and it was amazing. I got rid of so many snails that I stopped doing it cause it was only one snail per salad. So yesterday I noticed there were more snails so I put salad back inside. But this morning... Eyes of female guppy were all black, my male guppy is turning black and hiding!!! I almost thought he was dead. So I changed the water (maybe nitrate spiked, of course I am all out of thest they arrive tomorrow!!! just my luck). I am hoping for speedy recovery... But could salad do this? Stress my fish? Spike the nitrate levels? Or are my wish simply stresses because they don't belong together? If my guppy male won't go to his usual self by morning I am returning them to the store. I only bought them as companion and they are killing him.

Only one female has big black eyes, other female is doing good.

One hour after water change eyes are back to normal!!! I can only guess that salad was a bad idea... I put my guppy male in quarantine, he seems to be doing worse, not better...

 

Unless you left salad in there to rot or the salad was contaminated with some sort of pesticide, it's not the salad.

I keep guppies and sometimes their eyes will change colour for no reason and change back a few days after. Could be something to do with the lighting..

As for the male, guppies can change the brightness of their patterns due to stress, so I think maybe you introduced a chemical into the water through the salad leaf.

I would reccomend adding more water conditioner to the tank (especially if you have Prime) and doing a 25% water change every other day.

 

I will do that... But my guppy male didn't survive. Maybe it was stress of two new females and the salad... or all of it. I am now left with two females.

 

I will do that... But my guppy male didn't survive. Maybe it was stress of two new females and the salad... or all of it. I am now left with two females.

Oh no, I'm so sorry for your loss

 

Honestly, he probably deserved it. He got aggressive with all other males and killed them all... But now I am stuck with two females and I do not know what to do. I would like to return them to the store, but my bf is convinced they won't take them back...

 

Honestly, he probably deserved it. He got aggressive with all other males and killed them all... But now I am stuck with two females and I do not know what to do. I would like to return them to the store, but my bf is convinced they won't take them back...

Well if you don't mind having the females there, a tank of all females is rarely aggressive or negative. Add one or two more females and you have a nice guppy tank

 

Yeah I probably will. I mean I don't know what else to do with them. So I will get another female, and maybe in couple of months a few shrimps. They do seem to be really active. But they are a bit dull in color... oh well, as long as they stay happy and don't get aggresive.