Your point about internal parasites: It's best to treat the whole tank instead of isolating the ill guppy. This is easier than treating the ill one and then later discovering that others were infected and having to treat them as well. Treat every fish and no more will get ill. Even if the sickest ones have no hope, it can be used as a preventative measure to make sure nobody else becomes infected. I've had entire batches of guppies die from ips.
Thank you so much for sharing this info. I have had four die, systematically one after another. I could not match the symptoms to the info about different illnesses, to the symptoms of my sick guppies. Your video has nailed it and now I can react and take the right action if needed. It's distressing seeing them suffer and not knowing what to do so once again, many many thanks :-)
API general cure mixed with food tank water, and some garlic. Feed for 7 days, remove carbon if you use that. This will also clear up mass infections. If you notice one like this chances are it's too late and the worms are in the water column or in fish already.
Glad you mentioned OLD Food. I believe many people lose track of how old foods can be and kept at room temperature it can turn rancid and poisonous within months.
@@pendlera2959 I know it’s been 3 years but I’m just getting into the hobby and no amount of research is helping me. So you get quality community pellets, put the container in the freezer, then take out a weekly amount and put in in a air tight baggy? How many pellets does each fish need a day? Do you just put a few or do you actually have an amount per fish? Thanks!
I love cherry shrimp, they make me smile. In fact they are my fav animals, but my guppies eat cherries so i have 6 amanos in my tank with guppies and mollies. Btw your aquarium is amazing!!!!
I bought 8 a few years ago for my 55gal tank. I honestly think I just got a diseased batch from the pet store. I usually am good at keeping my fish. So, I'm glad I saw this video, thx.
planning on getting some of these beauties today and quarantining them for about 2 months and this can definitely help! thanks so much ❤️ love and support from Illinois, USA
Not just the quality of the food matters but the amount. All fish food is composed of lots of protein. Feeding them every day and too much is going to bloat them leading them to dropsy. Its important to give them peas often since it contains lots of fiber to help flush out their system. If you dont have peas then i would recommend feeding them every other day or just a little once a day. Daphnia is also a good product to help flush out their system. Guppies will eat non stop, not bc they're hungry but bc theyre healthy. Doesnt mean to over feed them bc then it causes problems like dropsy.
WTF MY GUPPY IS 3 YEARS OLD NOT EVEN JOKING he said they live 1-2 years LMAO *edit* -sad- news he died today in the morning *edit(2)* its been 9 months and you guys are still giving me support i really appreciate it. I now own 15 guppies! Got them a week ago so they are fresh and new but the are pure-bred so i wont expect them to last as long. edit(3) All of the 15 guppies died about 2 months ago and I now own a bearded dragon hes 3 years old got him 3weeks ago
Good video. Very informative and would like more guppy videos. I had one die due to old age and I just find them so entertaining, (not the one who died, obviously) that I'm interested in anything concerning them. Keep up the good work!
i just got a new guppy and he has been swimming slightly sideways, everything i see says he has swim blather problems but considering how guppies with damaged swim bladders act i don’t think that’s it, hopefully it’s just stress from a new tank and he’ll get better soon!
Do you need a heater in a guppy grow out tank? My marina hob breeder kinda sucks tbh and I was thinking of using one of those one gallon betta prisons from the box stores as a grow out tank. Would I be okay throwing a sponge filter and fry in there? I live in Florida so it’s pretty warm and our room temperature is usually between 70-77 indoors
Use salt in the water! 1 fish per gallon and change the water every week (80%) and clean the tank walls and wash the liefs of the plants! And your fish will be just fine but most importantly, use salt and water conditioner every time! Measure the pH
shlakser 80% water change is drastic and will cause issues with sensitive animals or ones that require dosing such as shrimp which require go increases 10% is more like it
@@jrich436 the shrimps die of desies due to toxic water and lack of oxygen. 10% water change is highly insufficient! 10% water change is called the old aquarium syndrome. The best way to keep your animals healthy is water change (the right way). I see people not cleaning the filters and this is complete madness. Beneficial bakteria is contained benith the stones on the bottom and on the stones (small stones and plants are a must) and 1 tea spoon salt on every 3.5 gallons of water!
shlakser 10% has been the standard since before either of us were born. Billions of tanks across the world. Trillions of gallons. 80% is utterly ridiculous. And will shock most sensitive animals into oblivion. On top of that you would go broke dosing for anything that needs more than 7 ph 0kh, 0gh 100 TDS I breed shrimp. I sustain 4-6 gh from R/O water. Our tap water is at 3 and of course reverse or distilled is 0 and has to be doses up. 6 sustains then and allows them to survive someone buying and dumping in a tank that is probably 2-4. They come in with water as high as 13. I’ve seen a colony crash going from bag at 10* into a well established system at 6*. Everything already in there survived everything added died. I’ve seen a tank at 10 crash when lowered to 4 to match to what new shrimp were at. Every one in the tank died. Everything added survived. You’d go broke redoing 80% of your water to get it to 6* There are only a few diseases that effect shrimp and a handful more that will effect fish. Water changes alone will not cure many of them. 80* is drastic, wasteful and not cost effective. If you need 80* of your water changed you are over feeding or over stocking
shlakser beneficial bacteria are on everything in the tank and benefit from oxygenation. Established filter media that gets wet but is exposed to oxygen is better than rocks submerged in water alone I barely ever clean the sponge or madden filters in the shrimp tank as it’s the main way to feed them. I never clean any surface that I’m establishing bacteria on in any drip tray/spray bar/bio ball/etc etc etc Only the mechanical screens are changed and it has to do with efficiency of capturing not anything to do with bacteria Done right the filters become mostly houses for bacteria which clean the water NOT a physical object capturing dirt. Once again it sounds like you over feed or over stock. If balanced a tank can go years without ever having to change anything in a filter with 7-8 pH and no nitrates You have a lot of studying to do
@@jrich436 if you put new inhabitants in your tank with those 10% water changes, they will die! Also if you breed the animals and sell them, dont get them used to your toxic water because you will lose your customers. Once they buy them from you and put them in their tank they are done. I have a 60 gallon with 22 guppies (colony) and I feed them 3 times a day with food that they can eat all in 2 minutes max. When I clean my tank I clean everything incl. The walls of the tank and my pump is sucking the water benith the stones on the bottom (best filtration). Twice a week I clean the sponge on my external filter (I have a additional filter for the bateriata. Type in TH-cam Old tank syndrome and see it for yourself.
Currently dealing with what I thought was just ich. Nope. Flukes and ich.... tackled the ich now the gill flukes.... flashing gave it away then I noticed one of my females staying at top, losing color in fins, barely eats. All other fish are doing good besides flashing so I hope I can rid the flukes that causing them to flash... water parameters are great and using combo of General Cure and EM. Fingers crossed especially since I have bunch fry now too! (Guilty of not QT new fish) never again!
The fish immune system helps them fight off parasites bacteria etc naturally so they don’t need to be medicated. When they’re stressed that’s when they’re more vulnerable to disease. High quality water is what keeps them healthy so it’s important to do regular water changes.
Parasites when attack the fish once, It's important to medicate with antibiotics (in a quarantine tank, Otherwise if the disease is something that stays in the tank and will come back if you won't sterilize then sterilize it and repeat the cycle and add the fish when they're cured back, antibiotics do kill bacteria beneficial or harmful and mostly kill plants too) otherwise will be a problem. A lot of diseases require antibiotics and can't be cured using natural stuff and once they are in your tank good water quality without the proper meds is unhelpful for the fish with the disease.
I am really researching around for guppy keeping... I am getting a new tank and some guppies... Am so happy yay!! Can u tell me how many guppies is worth a 40 gallon tank? And thnax for the tips
I had a guppie that has lived for 1 year now and I first got two males together and the other one died and now this one haa been lonely for a while now and it's the most active fish on my tank
I had 2 males as well. It was living with a betta fish for 2 years in peace until one day, betta fish snapped and attacked.( They have been living for 2 years without a problem ) One of them died and I had to remove the other guppy.
"Dropsy," or edema, is usually caused by kidney failure in fish. It's pretty much untreatable. However, it is frequently confused for another condition: constipation. Epsom salt can cure constipation because it is a laxative.
@@baokachi9767 I'm not terribly well-educated in fish physiology, but in humans kidney failure is, essentially, a result of an electrolyte imbalance. In some cases, the imbalance is so profound that you have crystals precipitating out of solution and harming the tissues or osmotic pressure large enough to pull whole proteins through the fenestra of the glomeruli. I'd hazard to guess that, in fish, whose kidneys have the extra burden of constantly maintaining ions inside the fish's body against the concentration gradient (since fish live in water), any number of factors could reduce the fish's renal perfusion rate, thus upsetting this imbalance and allowing the fish to accumulate too much water in its body. My hypothesis is that these factors could include stress (which can really mess with blood flow to the kidney), the presence of certain chemicals in the aquarium, infection, congenital abnormalities such as Cushing's disease, et cetera. Of course, because humans don't value the lives of fish as much as those of humans, not a tremendous amount of research has been made publicly available, though it might be out there.
I have 6 adult guppies in my 100l tank 4 female 2 male. This morning my smaller male guppy was laying on his side on bottom and i put him on separate box in the tank. He swims and eats and lays on bottom again. I saw that his tail is little bit ripped but didn't saw any other injuries. I also have 5 kuhlis, 6 guppy frys and pleco in the tank. My pleco is pretty agressive and sometimes "attac" towards my fish with her spikes out. All my other fish are fine, water is fine, i change 10% water 2 days ago and 40% last week. I use sera aquatan and sometimes tetra easy balance. My fish mostly eat flakes, shrimp, cucumber and spirulin catfish chips. I've never have problems with sick fish or moss/alga. Atm male guppy is in 1l solid box laying on his side. His tail color is bright babyblue witch is right but his body is grayish (usually yellow). Is he ill? Whats wrong with him?
My pregnant female guppy just sits at the top of the water and doesn’t move (he is breathing) he’s fins seem to be in a bad shape. Do you know what this is
@@SamChavez3213, hi! Yes they are still alive, they are all well and happy now. I learned that my tank light was to much for them so now they like just the natural light from the window.
I have 2 male guppies and they bite each other's tails :/ I'm not sure how to get them to stop fighting I added a 3rd one today to maybe distract them from fighting
I don’t have anywhere to put another guppy... idk what to do they aren’t skinny and they aren’t always alone and it’s just the one sometimes another comes over though
Feeding Tetra food doesnt mean your fish dont get Dropsy..Over stock,over feeding or lack of cleaning/water changes will cause fishes' immume system to drop and get sick including Dropsy.
I had four guppies and one of them was very skinny and lethargic, and always at the top of the tank like you said in the beginning it died, the other fish look fine for know, but do you think they can still have it? my other three guppies look heathy they are all eating and always swimming, but can they still have it. I wish I saw this video before my guppy died ahhh
I just took 2 dead guppy from my tank, they have been eaten by others by the look of tails but there is a heap of gizzard floating with them. I should have photographed. Could temperature make them poop their guts out? I’m only person in house.
I had only one guppy and he seemed fine, and I bought more and was about to add them to my main tank today and before I put them in, I realized the original guppy was looking skinny and sick. I didn't put the newer ones in the tank, I put the newer ones in a small tank for now ... What should I do? Should I take him out and add them to the main tank or should I treat my whole tank (community) and keep the new ones out until he's feeling better?
would you know any reason why my guppies stayed small, i noticed that one of my first batches that are now a year old, stayed way smaller than the others, but their colors developed fully, i can even send videos and pictures..
Guppies are soooooo weird, I’ve had a few male sets , I’ll have about three or four at a time and when one dies I take the body out but the rest follow. It’s super weird that’s how I’ve experienced their death. I have a 10 gallon with four boy guppies, two cherry barbs and two tetras. The rest have outlived the guppies, with my experience with them , when one goes they all will go ☹️
Same here i recommend only getting 4 guppy’s I had better results with it. One time I had 4 guppies and then after a year I put in a dwarf gorami and then it mustve had some disease and killed all my fish
I have a guppy that can't swim upright. Also, at the same time I have others that are hiding in plants. They have never done this. I have lost 3 guppies and they never die in my aquarium. I don't know what is going on. They are not skinny and have no signs of infection. It's sad and I'm at a loss. The water parameters are good.
Great video contents! Can i kindly check if the guppy fries do not eat live bbs or ready flakes or pellets after being born for >4-5days, what can i do?😰 pls help
I bought several guppy since october. and the male guppy always die less than a week, while the female still living healthy until now. The fry from previous female are healthy. Im not sure why the male always die, but I assume their genes are getting weaker as breeder usually interbred them to get a consistent color.
Sometimes they die after giving birth, and the fish bought in stores are weaker then a self raised guppy. Your fry Will probably be stronger than the bought fish
I bought 8 on monday.. Wednesday come i have 5 left.. and one is on its way to heaven. I have a heater set 25°C. And a filter too. I covered the input to lower the power of output. I feed them flakes. I have a tank just like yours. Idk what to do anymore
Could be weak genetics from inbreeding in the store. If this is possible, get them from a breeder or another shop, or the way I do it is get males with simpler patterns and females with no color, that lowers the chance of weak genetics, but inbreeding is inevitable. So if you find say, a males with females in one tank, avoid them completely. That means that the store you are buying it from has no knowledge of guppies.
You may have introduced to many into uour tank at one time. Try a daily water change of 25 % and dont over feed! In a month if everyone is ok then only add a couple more at a time.
@@itminime5507 no.. I still haven't got guppies. My Mollies keep breeding so I didn't want to over stock the tank. I got swordtails that are breeding too.
My pregnant 🤰 hippy died with like 200 babies in her stomach and she was huge her gills were stretching then she started to get frail and couldn’t swim at first I thought she was going through some hard time carrying all those babies but turns out she had a disease and it spread to the babies before they were born now it has been two years and none of my other hippies have given birth I think that was the only fish that was ever going to get pregnant in my tank so it’s just so sad how I lost so many baby fishies🙁 𝙷𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚢𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚐𝚞𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚟𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚏 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚎𝚝
one of my guppies is really small compared to him, even my neon tetras are bigger then him, hes always been little even tho he eats alot. any opinions?
Okay idk if anyone will even see this but about a month and a half ago I bought 6 guppies a betta and a mystery snail for my 20 gal and within a week 5 guppies and my betta died.. but the last guppy and snail are still alive and thriving.. what happened?? There was 0 aggression from any of the fish in the tank and I went to my bfs and when I came home they had died..
Don’t forget to do something about the air/gas pockets under the sand! My tank has started sending my guppies loopy with swim bladder and that is the reason why
I have 3 guppies 1 male and 2 female there the normal type of guppies and 1 female had baby’s but 1 day later it died Could it giving birth kill it some how? And they Young Healthy and the food is Brand new
I’ve had this happen too. So sad. One I noticed was attacked by another fish because his side was all gashed but one just died for no apparent reason. Obviously there was one but it’s a mystery to me too. Still got seven out of ten that are doing well 🤷🏼♀️
Your point about internal parasites: It's best to treat the whole tank instead of isolating the ill guppy. This is easier than treating the ill one and then later discovering that others were infected and having to treat them as well. Treat every fish and no more will get ill. Even if the sickest ones have no hope, it can be used as a preventative measure to make sure nobody else becomes infected. I've had entire batches of guppies die from ips.
Thank you so much for sharing this info. I have had four die, systematically one after another. I could not match the symptoms to the info about different illnesses, to the symptoms of my sick guppies. Your video has nailed it and now I can react and take the right action if needed. It's distressing seeing them suffer and not knowing what to do so once again, many many thanks :-)
API general cure mixed with food tank water, and some garlic. Feed for 7 days, remove carbon if you use that. This will also clear up mass infections. If you notice one like this chances are it's too late and the worms are in the water column or in fish already.
Mellé wedin I use general cure too. I have it sent over from the USA it cost a bit but is worth it.
Garlic? Whole?
Glad you mentioned OLD Food. I believe many people lose track of how old foods can be and kept at room temperature it can turn rancid and poisonous within months.
That's why I freeze my fish food and just take a small amount and put it in a baggie for daily feeding.
Agree!!
@@pendlera2959 I know it’s been 3 years but I’m just getting into the hobby and no amount of research is helping me. So you get quality community pellets, put the container in the freezer, then take out a weekly amount and put in in a air tight baggy? How many pellets does each fish need a day? Do you just put a few or do you actually have an amount per fish? Thanks!
@@luke-hq3pr pretty sure guppies need 2 pellets each feeding. or 4 pellets per day if u feed twice.
Hi AussieAquatics, fancy seeing you here
I love cherry shrimp, they make me smile. In fact they are my fav animals, but my guppies eat cherries so i have 6 amanos in my tank with guppies and mollies. Btw your aquarium is amazing!!!!
I bought 8 a few years ago for my 55gal tank. I honestly think I just got a diseased batch from the pet store. I usually am good at keeping my fish. So, I'm glad I saw this video, thx.
planning on getting some of these beauties today and quarantining them for about 2 months and this can definitely help! thanks so much ❤️ love and support from Illinois, USA
Thank you!
Had some of my guppies die out of nowhere
This is great info thanks!
Also yay Aussie pricing!!
For fellow Euros watching: The fluke & tapeworm tablet's active component is praziquantel, 100 mg.
Not just the quality of the food matters but the amount. All fish food is composed of lots of protein. Feeding them every day and too much is going to bloat them leading them to dropsy. Its important to give them peas often since it contains lots of fiber to help flush out their system. If you dont have peas then i would recommend feeding them every other day or just a little once a day. Daphnia is also a good product to help flush out their system. Guppies will eat non stop, not bc they're hungry but bc theyre healthy. Doesnt mean to over feed them bc then it causes problems like dropsy.
The tank is sparkling clean!
you mean clear. Clear doesn't = clean
I actually have guppies.
And one of the babies die for no reason
Thanks a lot. This is really helpful
One baby died? LOL You'll have 800 more in no time these fish do not stop, I bought 7 like 10 months ago and now I have well over 100.
sometimes they over feed and die.
WTF MY GUPPY IS 3 YEARS OLD NOT EVEN JOKING he said they live 1-2 years LMAO
*edit* -sad- news he died today in the morning
*edit(2)* its been 9 months and you guys are still giving me support i really appreciate it. I now own 15 guppies! Got them a week ago so they are fresh and new but the are pure-bred so i wont expect them to last as long.
edit(3) All of the 15 guppies died about 2 months ago and I now own a bearded dragon hes 3 years old got him 3weeks ago
im sorry if ur loss :(
@@kenzie3513 its ok
Jinxed 😭 RIP
Youssef Achouri yeh rip he has been with me my whole 3 years of middle school
They live normal 2-3 year if you have a excellent aquarium than 3-5 years
Number 4 reason is
They don’t live forever but
@Raul Martinez lmao
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VERY impressive. I noticed your layered substrate. GREAT! We are all about deep substrate.
Thanks!
Very helpful info! THANKS very much from USA!!
Good video. Very informative and would like more guppy videos. I had one die due to old age and I just find them so entertaining, (not the one who died, obviously) that I'm interested in anything concerning them. Keep up the good work!
I love them...
what is the little piece of plastic that is covering the most ball in that tank great video I hope you have a great rest of your day
Hold up HOLD. UP. Is that a Lego box in the background? You’re not the only one 😄
Marine salt and heat can work wonders. Trust me 1-2 tbsp per gallon
In summer temperature at 28-29 with salty watter, no help :-/
i just got a new guppy and he has been swimming slightly sideways, everything i see says he has swim blather problems but considering how guppies with damaged swim bladders act i don’t think that’s it, hopefully it’s just stress from a new tank and he’ll get better soon!
Update?
Do you need a heater in a guppy grow out tank? My marina hob breeder kinda sucks tbh and I was thinking of using one of those one gallon betta prisons from the box stores as a grow out tank. Would I be okay throwing a sponge filter and fry in there? I live in Florida so it’s pretty warm and our room temperature is usually between 70-77 indoors
We went on vacation for 3 days. Left the fish unfed. The other fish was completely gone. While cleaning the tank he was buried in the rocks.
Your room is so cute. :) It's so orderly and appealing. I love how you have stuffed animals on your bed. Your curtains are really cool, too.
What are you, his boyfriend? :P (I say this lovingly)
This ain’t my room tho 😀
Vivian Tristesse No, I just like being nice. :-)
KeepingFishSimple *Gasp* Did you sneak into someone’s room to make this video?! XD
@@Psybur I'm guessing you're an attention to detail person xD
I didn't notice any of it until you mentioned it.
Use salt in the water! 1 fish per gallon and change the water every week (80%) and clean the tank walls and wash the liefs of the plants! And your fish will be just fine but most importantly, use salt and water conditioner every time! Measure the pH
shlakser 80% water change is drastic and will cause issues with sensitive animals or ones that require dosing such as shrimp which require go increases
10% is more like it
@@jrich436 the shrimps die of desies due to toxic water and lack of oxygen. 10% water change is highly insufficient! 10% water change is called the old aquarium syndrome. The best way to keep your animals healthy is water change (the right way). I see people not cleaning the filters and this is complete madness. Beneficial bakteria is contained benith the stones on the bottom and on the stones (small stones and plants are a must) and 1 tea spoon salt on every 3.5 gallons of water!
shlakser 10% has been the standard since before either of us were born. Billions of tanks across the world. Trillions of gallons.
80% is utterly ridiculous. And will shock most sensitive animals into oblivion.
On top of that you would go broke dosing for anything that needs more than 7 ph 0kh, 0gh 100 TDS
I breed shrimp. I sustain 4-6 gh from R/O water. Our tap water is at 3 and of course reverse or distilled is 0 and has to be doses up. 6 sustains then and allows them to survive someone buying and dumping in a tank that is probably 2-4. They come in with water as high as 13.
I’ve seen a colony crash going from bag at 10* into a well established system at 6*. Everything already in there survived everything added died.
I’ve seen a tank at 10 crash when lowered to 4 to match to what new shrimp were at. Every one in the tank died. Everything added survived.
You’d go broke redoing 80% of your water to get it to 6*
There are only a few diseases that effect shrimp and a handful more that will effect fish. Water changes alone will not cure many of them.
80* is drastic, wasteful and not cost effective. If you need 80* of your water changed you are over feeding or over stocking
shlakser beneficial bacteria are on everything in the tank and benefit from oxygenation. Established filter media that gets wet but is exposed to oxygen is better than rocks submerged in water alone
I barely ever clean the sponge or madden filters in the shrimp tank as it’s the main way to feed them.
I never clean any surface that I’m establishing bacteria on in any drip tray/spray bar/bio ball/etc etc etc
Only the mechanical screens are changed and it has to do with efficiency of capturing not anything to do with bacteria
Done right the filters become mostly houses for bacteria which clean the water NOT a physical object capturing dirt.
Once again it sounds like you over feed or over stock.
If balanced a tank can go years without ever having to change anything in a filter with 7-8 pH and no nitrates
You have a lot of studying to do
@@jrich436 if you put new inhabitants in your tank with those 10% water changes, they will die! Also if you breed the animals and sell them, dont get them used to your toxic water because you will lose your customers. Once they buy them from you and put them in their tank they are done. I have a 60 gallon with 22 guppies (colony) and I feed them 3 times a day with food that they can eat all in 2 minutes max. When I clean my tank I clean everything incl. The walls of the tank and my pump is sucking the water benith the stones on the bottom (best filtration). Twice a week I clean the sponge on my external filter (I have a additional filter for the bateriata. Type in TH-cam Old tank syndrome and see it for yourself.
Currently dealing with what I thought was just ich. Nope. Flukes and ich.... tackled the ich now the gill flukes.... flashing gave it away then I noticed one of my females staying at top, losing color in fins, barely eats. All other fish are doing good besides flashing so I hope I can rid the flukes that causing them to flash... water parameters are great and using combo of General Cure and EM. Fingers crossed especially since I have bunch fry now too! (Guilty of not QT new fish) never again!
The fish immune system helps them fight off parasites bacteria etc naturally so they don’t need to be medicated. When they’re stressed that’s when they’re more vulnerable to disease. High quality water is what keeps them healthy so it’s important to do regular water changes.
Parasites when attack the fish once, It's important to medicate with antibiotics (in a quarantine tank, Otherwise if the disease is something that stays in the tank and will come back if you won't sterilize then sterilize it and repeat the cycle and add the fish when they're cured back, antibiotics do kill bacteria beneficial or harmful and mostly kill plants too) otherwise will be a problem. A lot of diseases require antibiotics and can't be cured using natural stuff and once they are in your tank good water quality without the proper meds is unhelpful for the fish with the disease.
I am really researching around for guppy keeping...
I am getting a new tank and some guppies...
Am so happy yay!!
Can u tell me how many guppies is worth a 40 gallon tank?
And thnax for the tips
8 guppies in a 40 litre tank
@@birgio1363 he said gallon
In a 40 , start with 15 males and 5 females , you will never need to buy guppies again
@@backyardburnouts8846 thanx man...i will try it out
@@aestheticavocado4670 but if you really wanted to you could go as much as 1 fish per gallon
As a matter of interest, what do you do with dead fish (ant fish) ???
Hi how many gallants do u need for 20 male guppies
Very neat, very good advice
Do the tablets dissolve in the water or do they need to be crushed?
Thank you this was helpful. I’m getting some guppies soon and I want to know everything before I get them
ItxAcid same
I had a guppie that has lived for 1 year now and I first got two males together and the other one died and now this one haa been lonely for a while now and it's the most active fish on my tank
I had 2 males as well. It was living with a betta fish for 2 years in peace until one day, betta fish snapped and attacked.( They have been living for 2 years without a problem )
One of them died and I had to remove the other guppy.
2 females PER male or they will mate to death the female.
"Dropsy," or edema, is usually caused by kidney failure in fish. It's pretty much untreatable. However, it is frequently confused for another condition: constipation. Epsom salt can cure constipation because it is a laxative.
Vivian Tristesse why does the dropsy happen?
@@baokachi9767 I'm not terribly well-educated in fish physiology, but in humans kidney failure is, essentially, a result of an electrolyte imbalance. In some cases, the imbalance is so profound that you have crystals precipitating out of solution and harming the tissues or osmotic pressure large enough to pull whole proteins through the fenestra of the glomeruli. I'd hazard to guess that, in fish, whose kidneys have the extra burden of constantly maintaining ions inside the fish's body against the concentration gradient (since fish live in water), any number of factors could reduce the fish's renal perfusion rate, thus upsetting this imbalance and allowing the fish to accumulate too much water in its body. My hypothesis is that these factors could include stress (which can really mess with blood flow to the kidney), the presence of certain chemicals in the aquarium, infection, congenital abnormalities such as Cushing's disease, et cetera. Of course, because humans don't value the lives of fish as much as those of humans, not a tremendous amount of research has been made publicly available, though it might be out there.
I have 6 adult guppies in my 100l tank 4 female 2 male. This morning my smaller male guppy was laying on his side on bottom and i put him on separate box in the tank. He swims and eats and lays on bottom again. I saw that his tail is little bit ripped but didn't saw any other injuries. I also have 5 kuhlis, 6 guppy frys and pleco in the tank. My pleco is pretty agressive and sometimes "attac" towards my fish with her spikes out. All my other fish are fine, water is fine, i change 10% water 2 days ago and 40% last week. I use sera aquatan and sometimes tetra easy balance. My fish mostly eat flakes, shrimp, cucumber and spirulin catfish chips. I've never have problems with sick fish or moss/alga.
Atm male guppy is in 1l solid box laying on his side. His tail color is bright babyblue witch is right but his body is grayish (usually yellow).
Is he ill? Whats wrong with him?
I know its late but my guppy is going through the same . Still has brught colors but just laying on bottom what can i do please tell
Is blue planet fluke and tapeworm snail shrimp and plant safe?
Beautiful tank!
My pregnant female guppy just sits at the top of the water and doesn’t move (he is breathing) he’s fins seem to be in a bad shape. Do you know what this is
If you see fin down it’s getting fin disease can be from water being to cold.
water changes.
Thanks so much! Really informative! 😃😍😊
I have a guppy who died now he was normal is there a prob with their tank mates the tank mates are rozybarb and redsotail
So interestingly, you have shrimp in your tank - are those tablets safe if there are shrimp present too?
why are some fish keeping dudes so adorable??
I wish I was young again LOL
Free Thoughts I’m not
Oh lord
daylan yokota ????
T_T
You must be going though single-phobia... get used to it lady.
Thnx so much for sharing this info. One of my guppies had Dropsy really bad, had to get rid of it. Great vid🤓👍🐟
My guppies have been alive for 5 years now, 22 out of 2 are still alive, let’s just hope they survive longer...
are they still alive ?
@@SamChavez3213, hi! Yes they are still alive, they are all well and happy now. I learned that my tank light was to much for them so now they like just the natural light from the window.
@@Carter_125R now ?
Where do you guys get cool tanks like those
How do you get your java moss to grow with such dim light mine doesnt grow with a little better amount of light even
Thank you, your information is very helpful.
I have 2 male guppies and they bite each other's tails :/ I'm not sure how to get them to stop fighting I added a 3rd one today to maybe distract them from fighting
Did it worked?
Gaming with keishawn it helped a bit yes
Try putting them in seperate tanks male fishes always are up to fights
I don’t have anywhere to put another guppy... idk what to do they aren’t skinny and they aren’t always alone and it’s just the one sometimes another comes over though
hello ,How are doing ? can i keep shrimp in a zebra danio fry tank?
What do u use to maintain your planted tanks
Feeding Tetra food doesnt mean your fish dont get Dropsy..Over stock,over feeding or lack of cleaning/water changes will cause fishes' immume system to drop and get sick including Dropsy.
I had four guppies and one of them was very skinny and lethargic, and always at the top of the tank like you said in the beginning it died, the other fish look fine for know, but do you think they can still have it? my other three guppies look heathy they are all eating and always swimming, but can they still have it. I wish I saw this video before my guppy died ahhh
@@user-uk2gd2zu9b the other three did survie, but actually one of them just died recently due to other issues, something different
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Damn I had no idea guppies live for 1 to 2 years I have a 3yrd guppy :( I dont want him to die anytime now
Aren't they supposed to live like 3-5 years on average? I saw this info at guppy seller... Maybe they were lying I don't know
@@newname3718 3-5 years with excellent aquarium
I love guppies
I just took 2 dead guppy from my tank, they have been eaten by others by the look of tails but there is a heap of gizzard floating with them. I should have photographed. Could temperature make them poop their guts out? I’m only person in house.
hey will aquatic plants grow/root in sand?
Yep
Can 1 take the fry in a bocal to prevent them from getting eaten?
I see some colour change like turning more white and the die !!???any idea pls
I had only one guppy and he seemed fine, and I bought more and was about to add them to my main tank today and before I put them in, I realized the original guppy was looking skinny and sick. I didn't put the newer ones in the tank, I put the newer ones in a small tank for now ...
What should I do?
Should I take him out and add them to the main tank or should I treat my whole tank (community) and keep the new ones out until he's feeling better?
would you know any reason why my guppies stayed small, i noticed that one of my first batches that are now a year old, stayed way smaller than the others, but their colors developed fully, i can even send videos and pictures..
Guppies are soooooo weird, I’ve had a few male sets , I’ll have about three or four at a time and when one dies I take the body out but the rest follow. It’s super weird that’s how I’ve experienced their death. I have a 10 gallon with four boy guppies, two cherry barbs and two tetras. The rest have outlived the guppies, with my experience with them , when one goes they all will go ☹️
Same here i recommend only getting 4 guppy’s I had better results with it. One time I had 4 guppies and then after a year I put in a dwarf gorami and then it mustve had some disease and killed all my fish
I’ve had this tank for 1 and a half year, recently added plants, it’s cycled: keep losing one every few days
Do you wash your plants before you put it in the tank, 'cause sometimes there may be pesticides in the plants which are harmful to fish
did you quarantine the plants.
i use garlic ginger olive oil and a lemon slice on all the fish....
abit of salt per water value
Try chilli P too
I have a guppy that can't swim upright. Also, at the same time I have others that are hiding in plants. They have never done this. I have lost 3 guppies and they never die in my aquarium. I don't know what is going on. They are not skinny and have no signs of infection. It's sad and I'm at a loss. The water parameters are good.
Sometimes someone puts young convicts in with them and a month later all the guppies mysteriously disappear one night.
I have one molly and one male guppy that got thinner from the tail. They still eat but they look kind of weird. U think they might be sick?
yes
Great video contents! Can i kindly check if the guppy fries do not eat live bbs or ready flakes or pellets after being born for >4-5days, what can i do?😰 pls help
I bought several guppy since october. and the male guppy always die less than a week, while the female still living healthy until now. The fry from previous female are healthy. Im not sure why the male always die, but I assume their genes are getting weaker as breeder usually interbred them to get a consistent color.
My guppy gave birth last Friday, 21 babies.... but so sad 😭 I don’t know after 3 days guppy mom died.... Can you tell me why...??? Thank you
Same.
Sometimes they die after giving birth, and the fish bought in stores are weaker then a self raised guppy. Your fry Will probably be stronger than the bought fish
Been day's only a year
My hippie had a lump at the back of its tail what it that ?
I bought 8 on monday.. Wednesday come i have 5 left.. and one is on its way to heaven. I have a heater set 25°C. And a filter too. I covered the input to lower the power of output. I feed them flakes. I have a tank just like yours. Idk what to do anymore
Could be weak genetics from inbreeding in the store. If this is possible, get them from a breeder or another shop, or the way I do it is get males with simpler patterns and females with no color, that lowers the chance of weak genetics, but inbreeding is inevitable. So if you find say, a males with females in one tank, avoid them completely. That means that the store you are buying it from has no knowledge of guppies.
You may have introduced to many into uour tank at one time. Try a daily water change of 25 % and dont over feed! In a month if everyone is ok then only add a couple more at a time.
Good video. I've had trouble with Guppies in the past. I'll give it another go in the future. Cheers 👍
Did you try
@@itminime5507 no.. I still haven't got guppies. My Mollies keep breeding so I didn't want to over stock the tank. I got swordtails that are breeding too.
Thanks for the heads up buddy
What about clamp fin? I am having some trouble with my fish keep clamping their tail. what can I do?
Water peramitors
water changes.
My pregnant 🤰 hippy died with like 200 babies in her stomach and she was huge her gills were stretching then she started to get frail and couldn’t swim at first I thought she was going through some hard time carrying all those babies but turns out she had a disease and it spread to the babies before they were born now it has been two years and none of my other hippies have given birth I think that was the only fish that was ever going to get pregnant in my tank so it’s just so sad how I lost so many baby fishies🙁
𝙷𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚢𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚐𝚞𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚟𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚏 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚎𝚝
Sorry for spelling errors it was the font that was bugging and that’s what cause glitches
how did you know there was 200 hippies or about ?
one of my guppies is really small compared to him, even my neon tetras are bigger then him, hes always been little even tho he eats alot. any opinions?
Okay idk if anyone will even see this but about a month and a half ago I bought 6 guppies a betta and a mystery snail for my 20 gal and within a week 5 guppies and my betta died.. but the last guppy and snail are still alive and thriving.. what happened?? There was 0 aggression from any of the fish in the tank and I went to my bfs and when I came home they had died..
Great info.. Thanks
How long we should keep oxygen pump and filter on?
One of my guppy is fading colour what can be the reason?
It should always be on
Forgot to mention the basics. Make sure your water peramaters are in check.
Cute tank😊
Don’t forget to do something about the air/gas pockets under the sand! My tank has started sending my guppies loopy with swim bladder and that is the reason why
Dan Bee is reduce the depth of the sand and feed less. If you have gas build up you have a lot of material rotting in your tank
Check out in you tube Father Fish.
I had guppies that died of old age, bladder failure and tail rot.
My male guppies won't usually live longer than two year, but my female guppies regularly exceed that. I've had some live over 5 years.
Hey man! I have guppies too! I started off with 22 I got them 3 years ago, they all died except for 2... they have been alive for 5 years now as well!
Life expectancy is 1-2 years your pretty lucky to have those live longer
Thanks for tips 👍
Ya boi over here likes the broncos
What we can put which Medicine to the guppis
Sulfuric acid
His accent 😍
Think he is a native queenslander
I don't hear it but I'm Aussie so that's probably why aha
I have 3 guppies 1 male and 2 female there the normal type of guppies and 1 female had baby’s but 1 day later it died Could it giving birth kill it some how? And they Young Healthy and the food is Brand new
Every time I add new fish to my tank, one of my original ones die. Does anyone have and suggestions that can help me fix this? Many thanks
My 3 guppy are nearly always swimming on the top - is that a problem?
is CAN water is harmfull for imported guppies ?
I have a female guppy that wouldn't eat, even when I first got her. As of now, she's upside down but still breathing. I don't know what's wrong
Paige A maybe swim bladder problem.
My very active male guppy died over the weekend. I was so sad! Idk why, not skinny, not bloated, nothing
Hii
How long did you have him
@@jonathaniriqui a little over two months. He was very active, very beautiful fish. He had a neon yellow tail with black dots
I’ve had this happen too. So sad. One I noticed was attacked by another fish because his side was all gashed but one just died for no apparent reason. Obviously there was one but it’s a mystery to me too. Still got seven out of ten that are doing well 🤷🏼♀️
Hey my male guppie has a back that’s curved is it bad or good?
Bad
Don't breed it
My guppies didn't eat. what should i do? i have 3 types of foods for them, pellets, flakes food, BBS. But they didn't eat it!!!!
Internal parasites is deadly it's hard to cure
I do get the aquarium water the add fish food with chopped pieces of garlic to better improve the immune system
Bro Can we put Guppies along with swordtail fish in the same tank??
Will it be harmful for the babies guppies??
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Should be okay if there are decorations
I wouldnt recommend it. Swordtails tend to nip the fins of guppies specially if your guppies have long bright fins
EDIT: Male Swordtails