tmmycat
06-15-2007, 10:42 PM
One of my guppies started acting differently today ... he's just swimming near the surface with his mouth on the surface. He's also not moving his mouth at all, I usually see him opening and closing it. Is this normal behavior?
I have one other guppy in the same tank who's swimming around like he usually does, going up and down and all around. They are two male guppies in a 7 gallon tank with some small snails.
Does he need more air? I have lots of live plants in this tank, and a filter that does a waterfall into the water and creates some small bubbles as it disturbs the surface ... is that enough for getting them oxygen?
This is a relatively new tank but I made sure it was cycled before I got fish ... I test the water several times a week and do a partial water change whenever I see ammonia or nitrite or nitrate higher than usual ...
Also I'm not sure if this is related, but I got a new fish in this tank last week and he died two days later ... I thought that it was because the other guppies attacked him but now I'm not so sure ... did he have some kind of disease? He was also swimming near the surface sort of like this a day before he died. The only difference was that his tail fin looked all beat up and he had lost his color ... my guppy now looks fine so far other than his sudden change in swimming behavior.
Any help is appreciated ... I am pretty new to this so I'm not sure what's happening.
I have one other guppy in the same tank who's swimming around like he usually does, going up and down and all around. They are two male guppies in a 7 gallon tank with some small snails.
Does he need more air? I have lots of live plants in this tank, and a filter that does a waterfall into the water and creates some small bubbles as it disturbs the surface ... is that enough for getting them oxygen?
This is a relatively new tank but I made sure it was cycled before I got fish ... I test the water several times a week and do a partial water change whenever I see ammonia or nitrite or nitrate higher than usual ...
Also I'm not sure if this is related, but I got a new fish in this tank last week and he died two days later ... I thought that it was because the other guppies attacked him but now I'm not so sure ... did he have some kind of disease? He was also swimming near the surface sort of like this a day before he died. The only difference was that his tail fin looked all beat up and he had lost his color ... my guppy now looks fine so far other than his sudden change in swimming behavior.
Any help is appreciated ... I am pretty new to this so I'm not sure what's happening.