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niko001  Hobbyist Posts: 71 Kudos: 54 Votes: 8 Registered: 02-Mar-2005   | I found that most of my guppies had clamped fins. I tested the water and found a slight spike of NitrIte. I did 20% change of my 60 litre tank. Now, I noticed that the problem persists and that one of the guppies seem to be losing weight. There are also swordtails as well and seem to have similar symptoms. Now I have 10 betta fry which are 11 weeks old and are in different containers as well. At least they do not show any similar signs. Can anyone help? |
 Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:36 |     |
Bob Wesolowski  Mega Fish Posts: 1379 Kudos: 1462 Registered: 14-Oct-2004  | Clamped fins are a universal sign of disease stress. What are the other symptoms in your fish? You can go to: http://www.fishpalace.org/Disease.html to diagnose your fish. __________ "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research." researched from Steven Wright |
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| niko001 Hobbyist Posts: 71 Kudos: 54 Votes: 8 Registered: 02-Mar-2005 | The fish seem to be losing weight and most of the time is spent at the surface without any signs to gasp any air. I checked the water parameters and seem to be ok. What is curious is that only the guppies suffered from such effects and no other fish. |
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longhairedgit    Fish Guru Lord of the Beasts Posts: 2502 Kudos: 1778 Votes: 29 Registered: 21-Aug-2005  | Chances are the cause is protozoan or bacterial, the guppies are small , fast respiring fish, and they will be susceptible to nitrite poisoning mostly because of their size and me |
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