Female Guppies Dying

[Tetra Lover]

Hi all

I have bought two pregnant female guppies recently. After a few days, they have given birth to 20 - 30 babies in my breeding tank and I transferred them to main tank.

The strange thing is now the two of them are suffering from some kind of infection around their stomach area - blood streaks appearing and the skins are "melting".

Does anyone has this experience before? Is this a kind of bacteria infection? The guppies have stopped feeding and are dying...

[benny]

My initial guess is the water quality and inappropriate diet.

You might want to check with the guppy experts at the guppy club. Visit them at www.sguppy.com.

Cheers,

[Tetra Lover]

Many thanks benny for providing the link....sadly, the two guppies are dead....

[blim]

I was chatting with a fish farm owner this afternoon. He breeds guppies. He told me not to return female to the tank immediately after they have dropped fries. The female after giving birth will attract the males and they would hurt her. He was speaking from his experience. Mayb this provides some clues to your problems

Many thanks benny for providing the link....sadly, the two guppies are dead....

[Tetra Lover]

Thanks for the info blim.

I think benny is right on the water quality...mine is acidic with PH 6 - 6.5 whereas I read that guppies prefer alkaline and hard water....given such condition, guppies are more prone to infection....

[blim]

I have guppies in outdoor pots and tanks with PH range from 6.0 to 7.6. These guppies are offsprings from the feeder guppies which was introduced to the pot few months ago. When I first introduced the guppies to the pot, half of them died, the surviving females gave birth and the offsprings survived the 6.0 PH. The recent lcold weather and low PH rain water did not kill them. It seems guppies can take low PH if they were raised in such environment. So, keep your fries if there are still any. These fries might grow and live in your low PH tank.