chaat Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 My daughters Guppy tank seems to be in crisis. I have checked water .. all readings are good. PH is a little on the low side but not hugely so. Tank is an AR380 and has around 9 adult guppies, 4 peppered cory , 2 tiny brislenoses and some 15-20 guppy fry( 2 weeks old..so tiny still) We have lost two female guppies in the past two weeks ( both yellow girls and both following birth) and three more are this morning sitting on the bottom of the tank looking thin and bent. They seem to be hunched over. What could be causing this ? It's been a good three weeks since any new guppies were added, and they had been in a Q tank for three weeks prior to that. Tania. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim r Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 A lot of people seem to be having problems with guppies of late. Some think it could be caused by too much interbreeding. I had problems losing them also untill I added a uv sterilizer and glad to say problem solved.However there are those who do not like uv's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carla Posted August 31, 2007 Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 The main problem is to buy some "nice fish" and introduce them to the ones you already have in the tank. The imported ones (bred in Asia) have a virus to which the local ones are not resistant. This seems to be the main reason for guppy deaths in the past 2-4 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsarmina Posted August 31, 2007 Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 i have found the blond body guppies to be a lot weaker than the standard greys. i lost a few females after birth. solved the problem by crossing them with my greys. now i get at least half of each colour from my females of both colours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaat Posted August 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 Thanks. I guess it's just 'one of those things' with guppies. Hopefully the female fry I have now will be a bit hardier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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