What's wrong with my fish that is not eating and acting agitated?

She's not eating. Acting a little agitated even if she's just being still somewhere in the tank her tail wiggles more than normal. She seemed to be twitching a little bit not swimming sideways or anything like that, more like shivering. Water parameters are normal. No raised scales.

 

Can you give exact water parameters (pH, temp, ammonia, nitrites, nitrates)?

 

Ammonia 0 nitrite 0 ph neutral temp 76F nitrates can't remember exactly but they were low this tank has been up for four months and has been stable.

 

Hows the temp?

 

Tank mates are two Otos four ghost shrimp, some snails and another guppy who is in a breeder net because she's ready to pop. At first I thought this one was pregnant too I still think she might be but no dark spot. She does have a big belly but the Gracie spot is like orange. She was eating fine yesterday but today she even refused her bloodworms.

 

76 degrees f same as I always have it.

 

Big belly, like bloat? Idk if that makes them agitated but I'm sure its not exactly comfortable.

 

Idk if it's bloat I've never seen it in my fish before I thought she was pregnant.

 

I've got a couple pics here, I just pulled from Google

 

I just looked at bloat in guppies and no I don't think that's what she looks like. Her behavior is what's really odd and her not wanting to eat.

 

The only other thing that comes to find is a parasite, just keep your on this thread I'm sure someone will have more ideas lol

 

Lol I was thinking parasite too

 

How are her scales/coloration? Do the look lifted or anything?

 

No that's the first thing I checked with a flashlight. No raised scales anywhere on her.

 

Well keep us posted,surely someone here will come to the rescue lol

 

Still no improvements. She won't eat.

 

It could be a number of things, and very hard to tell. By your test results, I'm assuming your using strips to test?

A lot of the time, when my guppies start what your experiencing, something was off in my water. Sometimes just a slight water change helped.

You could also try a little bit if aquarium salt or Epson salt to see if you can get that bloat down.

Have you noticed when the last time she pooped?

 

No it was actually ApI master test. I did a water change just now with prime. I will qt her and use salt next. I last actually saw her poop yesterday.

 

Maybe shes just been constipated?

 

Hmmm... I am getting suspicious, I saw that I have newly hatched ghost shrimp in the tank. I'm starting to think she's lazy because she's pregnant and has been gorging on baby shrimp...

 

I had two berried ghost shrimp and never realized they had dropped the eggs until right now I saw the tiny things on the tank wall and Marimo balls. They look like tiny lice.

 

I had two berried ghost shrimp and never realized they had dropped the eggs until right now I saw the tiny things on the tank wall and Marimo balls. They look like tiny lice.

Those are most likely copepods or seed shrimp. Ghost shrimplets are larval in nature for the first week, and swim at the top of the water kinda like little clear mosquito larva.

Edit, meant to ask this with the original post, but forgot. Does the fish still poop? Since you last saw it poop? If so, that means it's eating something. If no poo, means constipated. Shelled and blanched green peas should work

 

Ugh haven't seen her poop and her belly is not as big. She's been more active and normal today.

 

She just ate so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

 

Well she was eating and pooping. Her gravid spot had gotten really dark. But today, I went to the store and when I came back my other female had given birth and this one was just laying dead on the substrate and the shrimp were eating her. It was sad...

 

Well she was eating and pooping. Her gravid spot had gotten really dark. But today, I went to the store and when I came back my other female had given birth and this one was just laying dead on the substrate and the shrimp were eating her. It was sad...

That sucks, sorry to hear that. It happens though.