I have a 29 gallon long with nothing but male guppies and 2 cory cats and a couple fry that I wasn't able to catch. One male suddenly up and died on me. I saw he was sick yesterday before I went to bed, he was shimmying at the top of the tank and his stomach cavity appeared to be caved in and he was refusing food. I was going to catch him out but I didn't even know what was wrong with him and my other fish were fine. There were nothing visible on his body that would indicate a parasite. If it was an intestinal worm wouldn't he be more bloated rather than caved in? I thought perhaps he'd get over it and if I moved him I'd just guarantee he'd die. He was dead when I woke up this morning. I decided to check all the parameters since my other fish are still acting normal. Everything is where it should be. What killed my fish?
2007-07-30 06:49:17 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
He wasn't old, he was only 5 months old. He's a fry from one of the females I bought some time ago.
2007-07-30 06:56:26 · update #1
There are any number of possible answers including an internal parasite, but most likely the answer is an internal bacterial infection. Often these are hard to catch in time to save the fish.
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2007-07-30 07:01:34 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is a disease fish can catch very suddenly, known as ICK (or whitespot). It is near impossible to prevent, except to make sure the water temp is right for the type of fish and that it is not stressed out. There is noting you can do to elp a fish that has ICK, because it will die no matter what. ICK, does not usually leave any visible marks except a few very small white spots, usually iof the tail and fin. It is not contagious, so your other fish will not have caught it. Do you think this may be the cause?
2007-07-30 07:35:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
a long life for a guppy is only about a year -- fancy guppies don't have long lives -- its hard carrying all that tail around. fish die of many different things that don't have any physical symptoms. usually after any fish dies in my tank i do a heathly gravel vaccum/ water change (like 1/3) just to keep things fresh and healthy for everyone else.
2007-07-30 07:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How weird. My daughter's Dalmation fish did this last night. She works at a pet store and said that the fish's "swim bladder" broke..didn't understand that. So weird....did the very same thing your guppy did. Poor things...I hate to see any animal die.
2007-07-30 06:52:32 · answer #4 · answered by CAT 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm definitely not a fish expert, but could it have been old age? I grew up having guppies of my own, and when that happened to my fish, it was usually old age.
Sorry about your fish.
2007-07-30 06:53:09 · answer #5 · answered by heeboy3 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
weird ive had guppies for a while know and ive never seen that happen
2007-07-30 06:53:00 · answer #6 · answered by tkerbag 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
i dont know, but i did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
2007-07-30 06:51:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
naw. ye saw ye face, chap. jk. well that sucks. ello govna. cheer ye up.
2007-07-30 06:51:57 · answer #8 · answered by ....:::4eva:::.... 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
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2007-07-30 06:52:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋