URGENT! All my guppies are dying

[FishNL]

Hello everyone,

I live in a tropical country so I have my blue moscow guppies outside in pots filled with water lellies etc.

I have been having them for the past 2 years without any problems until yesterday. Yesterday we had a big rain and I saw a few guppies floating at the surface, some were even upside down but when I would touch them they miracly began to move a little. A few hours later and around 10% of them were dead. I quickly did a 50% water change hoping it would solve anything.

Today, most are dead. I have 5 pots. In pot 1 and 2 all guppies are dead.. in pot 3, there are a few dead and still a few alive. I have attached pictures here below of the ones alive. You can see that their eyes are almost completely white, their tail seems to be rotten and all of them are infected.

However, in pot 4 and in pot 5 none of the fish are effected, they are fine as usual.

What should I do with the remaining sick ones that are still alive to prevent them from dying?

What virus/bacterial infection is this?

Thanks for your help!

 

[johnbirg]

Hi,
Did pots 1,2 and 3 get more rainwater than 4 and 5 like runoff from a roof or something like that. The fish look like they have fungus and that can be caused by a large influx of very soft water as in rain. Large water change with tap water can fix that along with some anti-fungus medication. You could also try a small dosage of aquarium seasalt as that often helps with guppies.

 

[FishNL]

I would say all pots got pretty much the same amount of rain water... I will try to dose some medicine and small amount of aquarium seasalt. Thank you

 

[johnbirg]

You can use 1 table spoon of the salt to 3 gallons of water. Sorry had to look it up. And API make a good fungus cure.

 

[FishNL]

Added a very tiny bit seasalt for aquarium use and added antibiotic antI fungal powder but things didnt change short term. 3 of the last 5 died as well... 2 are still alive but they are swimming to the bottom and then float upside down back to the top... rinse repeat. So poor

 

[johnbirg]

So sorry for your loss. Wish I knew what the rain effect was other than what we already talked about.

 

[FishNL]

Thanks for your help though... well yes its so strange, its not the first time we had a big rain here and they have been fine for over 2 years and now 50% of all my guppies wiped out in 2 days... All my blue moscows