guppy/fungus/dying
I usually post on alt.aquaria.tropical.fish.hobbist, I had posted a problem
I was having and netmax said to post it here, and maybe someone could help.
I have had a lot going on in my tanks so I will try and make it short
Had guppy tank set up for a year, had only 2 African dwarf frogs, 1 male
/female guppy, the female was pregnant had babies three times since
Christmas, babies were all fine up had no problems with them, both guppies
were healthy
then because I needed to have more females I went to lfs which was closing
and they had 8 guppies left so I just got them, still ended up with more
males then females but anyway, I made a mistake since at that time I had
both sets of babies in a 5 gl tank that I had, which was usually used for
either sick fish or new fish, I had no place to put them and put them in
with my guppies (yes I am aware that was a dumb move) it was a small
petstore and she did not take good care of the fish, some of the males were
nipping at the two pregnant females so I got a divider put males on one
side/ older babies and females on the other side and put one of those net
square things so the younger babies could be in the tank with out being
eaten, a few days after getting the new guppies I lost some, but they did
not look great to begin with, the following day I noticed white stuff on a
few of them, looked like cotton, I also noticed it on some of the babies,
they died fast, I took out the African dwarf frogs and treated with jungle
ick stuff, I still had some dying after treating mostly babies and older
babies, no adults, I seen cotton stuff on two of them and used a q-tip and
put hydrogen peroxide on it, they seemed to clear up fine and seem to be
fine now, but I am still losing babies at least one or two each day, and the
ones who died I have noticed that white stuff on them.
any suggestions would help, i think its a fungus
i have two ick meds one just for ick and the other says its for ick and
fungus, i have also read it might be Cytophaga?
Nikki
Does anyone know if African dwarf frogs can get fungus i dont think they get
ick
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