Help! Sick guppy fish!

[Tayler]

Help! I have 3 female guppy fish in a 6 gallon planted tank! A month ago I noticed one of the female guppies was a bit skinnier than the other guppies. The other two guppies in the tank were still normal sized. The guppy that was skinny still ate quite voraciously, so I figured I would wait a bit to see if she got skinnier. She did progressively get skinnier and I figured she had wasting disease.

I treated her with levamisole, and didn’t see a difference. The skinny guppies poop was also white yesterday. I am currently treating her with API general cure for her wasting disease. It’s been the 3 days since I added the first dose of general cure. The skinny guppy seems to be getting worse! She’s starting to pinecone a bit and seems to have trouble swimming a little bit. It’s almost like her tail is kinda heavy and it weighs her down! She’s also really skinny! Help! I got some photos, hopefully they might help.

 

[RioMilano]

I can't see any pine coning. However, white poop is a sign of internal parasites.

What food are you using?

What are your water parameters?

 

[Tayler]

I can't see any pine coning. However, white poop is a sign of internal parasites.

What food are you using?

What are your water parameters?

I feed them omega one flake foods 2 times a day and brine shrimp 4 times a week.

water parameters:
Ammonia 0ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 0ppm
I feed them omega one flakes 2 times a day and frozen brine shrimp 4 times a week. I also skip one day of the week and don’t feed them.

Water parameters:
Ammonia 0ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 5ppm

 

[CrackerboxPalace]

Curved spine, sunken belly disease – esp. livebearers

These are the same symptoms my guppies got. They all died best course of action is to isolate the fish from the others immediately and, if you see red worms protruding from its vent, treat with levamisole/praziquantiel/metronidazole etc. whichever is easiest to get.

 

[RioMilano]

Given its a heavily planted 6 gallon her immune system could of weakened from stress due to the little space she has. Also 3 females is no good. You need 2 females for each male. So 4 females and 2 males would be ideal. But this would mean overstocking. The tank you have would be more suited to a betta.

What is your ph?
In all honesty she looks fine appearance wise.

 

[CrackerboxPalace]

Given its a heavily planted 6 gallon her immune system could of weakened from stress due to the little space she has. Also 3 females is no good. You need 2 females for each male. So 4 females and 2 males would be ideal. But this would mean overstocking. The tank you have would be more suited to a betta.

What is your ph?
In all honesty she looks fine appearance wise.

Nothing wrong with having 3 female guppies in my experience. And no there's definitely pineconing and severe wasting, this requires immediate treatment.

 

[Tayler]

Nothing wrong with having 3 female guppies in my experience. And no there's definitely pineconing and severe wasting, this requires immediate treatment.

Any recommendations on what to treat them with? I am currently treating them with API general cure.

Given its a heavily planted 6 gallon her immune system could of weakened from stress due to the little space she has. Also 3 females is no good. You need 2 females for each male. So 4 females and 2 males would be ideal. But this would mean overstocking. The tank you have would be more suited to a betta.

What is your ph?
In all honesty she looks fine appearance wise.

My ph is 7.6ppm

 

[CrackerboxPalace]

Any recommendations on what to treat them with? I am currently treating them with API general cure.

Hi- sorry I think you missed my first post. here it is:

Curved spine, sunken belly disease – esp. livebearers

These are the same symptoms my guppies got. They all died best course of action is to isolate the fish from the others immediately and, if you see red worms protruding from its vent, treat with levamisole/praziquantiel/metronidazole etc. whichever is easiest to get.

 

[Tayler]

Hi- sorry I think you missed my first post. here it is:

Curved spine, sunken belly disease – esp. livebearers

These are the same symptoms my guppies got. They all died best course of action is to isolate the fish from the others immediately and, if you see red worms protruding from its vent, treat with levamisole/praziquantiel/metronidazole etc. whichever is easiest to get.

Thanks for your help. My bad, I did miss your first post. I read your article and I don’t see any worms, (Although when I first got her a bit over a year ago she had camallanus worms, but recovered with levamisole) I haven’t seen red worms protruding from the fish since.

I’m currently acclimating the sick guppy into a 1.5 gallon bin. I was originally just using the bin for extra aquarium plants that I didn’t want to compost. Some of the plants decayed and died, so I figured there might be a little bit of beneficial bacteria in it already. I also added a handful of gravel from my aquarium. Unfortunately i do not have an extra filter, but I do have an air pump that’s currently running in the bin. I also do not have a heater.

I’m not sure on how I’m going to treat the fish. But so far I just added a bit of aquarium salt.
I decided to continue with the API general cure for treatment of the sick guppy fish along with a bit of aquarium salt. I’ll update if it works.

 

[Tayler]

Update: unfortunately the guppy passed away last night
Her spine started to curve more in the end. Yesterday her poop was a mix of white and brown, and she didn’t eat much.