My little female guppy has really bloody gills.

[LT72884]

Ello all My wife has requested that i post a question for her. Here is what she wrote:

I have a small feeder guppy female, a child of a rescue guppy from a school pet project. I am not a fish keeper
so i have done the best I can with google. But she has really red and bloody gills and underside around the gills
and the only thing i can find is with too much ammonia. But the tank is fresh, we use Tetra cleaning bacteria each time we clean, never had an issue with ammonia, and at the moment the others are fine.
however last week, another fish developed bloody gills, and the other fish kind of beat her up till she died.

This is my thinking: I had read about crushing and feeding small snails to the guppies as a snack.
So I froze some snails that were getting out of hand in my tank, let them dry, and then crushed them
between my fingers and fed them to the guppies.

I think that this little one might have eaten a sharp peice of the shell and it has cut her mouth or throat
area. I think it might be this because it has never happened before, and has only happened sinse i started
feeding them the snails.

Could this happen? Any other Ideas? I'm really sad to see her in pain and I'm about ready to use
the clove oil to relieve her suffering. : (

Your advice is much appreciated,
Thanks

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Ok, that is her and i's question we have had these guppies for at least 3 years and have never had issues until recently. We have stopped feeding them the snails. I was thinking to much carbonate from the shells is causing the issue?

thanks guys

 

[charlie_Fish]

Ello all My wife has requested that i post a question for her. Here is what she wrote:



I have a small feeder guppy female, a child of a rescue guppy from a school pet project. I am not a fish keeper

so i have done the best I can with google. But she has really red and bloody gills and underside around the gills

and the only thing i can find is with too much ammonia. But the tank is fresh, we use Tetra cleaning bacteria each time we clean, never had an issue with ammonia, and at the moment the others are fine.

however last week, another fish developed bloody gills, and the other fish kind of beat her up till she died.



This is my thinking: I had read about crushing and feeding small snails to the guppies as a snack.

So I froze some snails that were getting out of hand in my tank, let them dry, and then crushed them

between my fingers and fed them to the guppies.



I think that this little one might have eaten a sharp peice of the shell and it has cut her mouth or throat

area. I think it might be this because it has never happened before, and has only happened sinse i started

feeding them the snails.



Could this happen? Any other Ideas? I'm really sad to see her in pain and I'm about ready to use

the clove oil to relieve her suffering. : (



Your advice is much appreciated,

Thanks



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Ok, that is her and i's question we have had these guppies for at least 3 years and have never had issues until recently. We have stopped feeding them the snails. I was thinking to much carbonate from the shells is causing the issue?



thanks guys

Just my 2 cents why don't you dose them with melafix and pimafix


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[LT72884]

let me look that up, never heard of them.

we could do that. ill see if the store has any tonight