Fat fishies.

[vippin]

As I tend to get with all guppies they seem to get fat around the belly quite easily. This is with twice a day small feedings.

The males especially seem to get a beer belly 24/7. This is with a flake/vitamin assortment in the morning and a frozen cube at night.

I've decided that a once a day feeding is enough to see if this diet will help the problem.

I am feeding an assortment per night of either:
One cube of Brine shrimp.
One cube of community mix.
One cube of Daphnia.
One cube of Frozen blood worm.
Half a teasp-oon of flake.
Half a teasp-oon of specialised guppy flake.
Half a teasp-oon of guppy pellets.

I own around 20 guppies, 4 kuhli loaches and 2 bristlenose catfish in a 3foot tank.

The guppies are ever breeding. I plan to eventually get another tank the same size and keep the males and females seperate, around the end of the year when I have moved into a new house.

Edit: You really need to fix the censoring on this forum T E A S P O O N turns into teathingy.

[Bumblebee]

LOL, theathingy ;D


I have had the same trouble with feeding frozen brineshrimp and have stopped feeding it to my gups alltogether. A few days after I started feeding I lost about 3 gups to dropsy (what appeared to be a really slow kind that killed over a few weeks). I stopped feeding, no more deaths. Then I fed it again and lost around 20 gups . Dropsy and columnaris. then stopped, no more death. two months later put two cubes in the tank and lost 3 gups .

this problem seems to happen with cheap bloodworm brands like orca that havny been moisture reduced and give of a lot of fluid once you put it in the tanks, My guess is that they are poluting the tank and causing bacterial blooms.

Hikari bloodworms give off no residue and are never 'broken' during freezing so seem to give off no residue at all. the next best is the moisture-reduced bio-gold. I have taken aside a few of these 'bloated' males and given them all vegi diets, although they never 'pinecone' like other dropsy they never seem to get better either .

[Cyberguppy]

LOL , I hadnt changed the censoring and it was still on the default list.

apparently the last four letters of teaspoon is a bad word used often enough to censor ;D

[vippin]

I have lost one fish to Dropsy in the past year, was a full adult male, took hold over him for around three months, and I had to remove him and 'do the deed' as he no longer could power himself to swim at all.

In a fortnight i'll provide an update to see how they are after their 'diet.'

[Bumblebee]

The daphnia might be blocking them up as well, it is around70% indigestable shell, 20% water. I saw a breeder having a lot of problems with fish growth and fry loss when they were feeding live daphnia. It is basicly a 'filler' food with no nutritional value. only of use when you are feeding very rich foods in tiny amounts (BBS, Spirulina powder)and need something to stop them feeling hungry.

[alexwhite]

Hey just found a great video on looking after Marine Fish, Sure you will find it useful as I did :-)

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