Sick Guppy. Parasite? Bloat?

Friday afternoon I got 3 guppies, 2 female and 1 male. They are in quarantine. Filter is seeded by media from my main tank, so paramaters are 0 Ammonia, 0 nitrite, and 10 nitrate. No heater but I keep them in the warm room so the tank is runs about 80-81 degrees during the day.

The 2 females look great, swimming and eating fine, but the male is not. He is swimming, but rather slowly, clamped pelvic fins, and since yesterday evening he has had a white stringy poop hanging off of him. He ate saturday morning, but will not touch food anymore. Last night I gave them a few bloodworms soaked in garlic and he showed no interest. Its like hes excited about food, and swims around it, but doesn't actually eat. He does not look bloated, no sideways swimming, not resting on the bottom.

My thought is that he has some sort of internal parasite. But if he did, wouldn't the girls have it too?

I've never had to deal with this so I'm at a loss as to what to do. There's so much information on different meds and treatements, and I'm slightly overwhelmed at where to start.

I'm trying to get a good pic, but haven't been sucessfull yet. Based on the symptoms, does anyone have a recommendation on what to do? If I treat him, should I put him in a separate tank, or keep him in quarantine and treat the other 2 as well? I can go buy meds asap if needed.

Thanks in advance for any input.

 

Lots of fish are sick at petstores, but they don’t look like it. Once the stress of coming home to a new tank happens, the disease can set in.

I would guess a fungal/bacteria diease. Make sure your water is crystal clear. Also, maybe leave your light off today, to help him adjust, and try to help some of the stress.

If you are very serious about saving him, do you have another tank? Is it filtered? You could put him in that. The best fungal/bacterial infection medication is kanaplex in my opinion.

I wouldn’t jump to medications quite yet though. Do a 25% water change daily for now.

 

If you bought all three at the same time, you might want to treat all three just to make sure you don't have a resurgence down the line. Beyond that, I'm not a disease expert (though I'm studying), so I would follow Intermediate_Aquarist's excellent advice <3

 

Thanks for the reply. I'm going to go ahead and order the kanaplex, I should have some on hand anyway. Amazon prime so I should have it wednesday, thursday latest. Lights are off, and the water for the water change is sitting in the warm room coming to temp.

I do have another tank, a 2.5 betta tank I saved from my first inpulse fish buy. I could set it up, I have 3 more tanks now, I can steal filter media from, lol.

Ill do the WC right now. Should I stop feeding for a couple days as well? Just so the water stays super clean? The guy said one of the girls may be pregnant, she does seem a tad chubby, but she eats and poops normally. I'm guessing they'll be fine without eating for a couple days, right?

 

If you bought all three at the same time, you might want to treat all three just to make sure you don't have a resurgence down the line. Beyond that, I'm not a disease expert (though I'm studying), so I would follow Intermediate_Aquarist's excellent advice <3

I was kind of thinking the same thing about just treating them all