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If the guppy is white and rotten, it may be infected with white spot disease. Raise the water temperature to about 30 degrees and treat it by taking advantage of the fact that white spot disease is afraid of high temperature. It may also be due to tail rot, and you need to disinfect the rotten part with fish disinfectant. It may also be due to unclean water quality. You need to take out the old guppy and put it in clean old water for maintenance, and add a tablespoon of salt to the water to sterilize it.

When guppies are infected with tail rot, they will also turn white and rot. At this time, the infected guppies need to be isolated and maintained, and then fish disinfectants should be applied to the rotten areas. Potassium permanganate can be used with a concentration of 1 part per 100,000 to 1 part per 5,000.

Guppy feeding precautions

The water temperature should be stable: it is important to note that the heating rod should not be removed yet, and a safe temperature should be set, such as 25 degrees. In any case, it will not work and consume electricity when the temperature is higher than this. In addition, pay attention to the temperature difference when changing the water. It is not advisable for the new water to be too cold or too hot.

The water quality is very important in the process of breeding guppies. All fish breeding requires adjusting the water quality first so that the fish can grow healthily. If the user needs to breed, the breeding environment of the guppies must also be adjusted to the best state.

The above content is referenced from Baidu Encyclopedia - Guppy, Baidu Encyclopedia - White Spot Disease

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1. White spot disease is a highly contagious external parasitic disease.

(1) Pathogen: Ichthyophthirius multifida (parasite). Transmission route: Daphnia, diseased fish, and contaminated tools are the No. 1 disease of tropical fish. Tropical fish are more susceptible to white spot disease than goldfish. The fluctuating water temperature is the cause of this disease and is also the reason why beginners often fail. When the tropical fish breeding industry first emerged in Europe, it was wiped out by this disease. Timely detection, early treatment, early isolation, enhanced disinfection, and maintaining constant temperature are effective ways to prevent this disease. White spot disease is divided into three stages: early, middle, and late. The course of the disease is 5 to 7 days, and each stage is 2 to 3 days. It often causes a large number of fish to die quickly, and the mortality rate can reach 60% to 70%.

(2) Symptoms: In the early stage, there are individual small white spots on the fins and body, the fish has an appetite, and the spirit is not much changed. In the middle stage, the fins and body are covered with white spots, the fish has no appetite, is not active, scratches everywhere, and the color becomes darker. In the late stage, white spots are all over the body, the fish floats on the water or sinks to the bottom of the tank. The fish is weak, sways from side to side, the mucous membrane on the body surface increases, breathing is difficult, and the fish suffocates to death.

(3) Treatment: This disease requires comprehensive treatment. Using only medicine will not be very effective. It is important to strengthen feeding and management. First, stop feeding for 4 to 5 days, reduce pollution, keep the water temperature constant, and preferably raise the temperature 2 to 3 degrees Celsius higher than the original water temperature. In the absence of aquatic plants, appropriate medication can be applied. Aquatic plants are sensitive to various drugs and die quickly. Commonly used prescriptions for tropical fish are as follows: Reference prescription 1: In the early stage, 0.5% to 1% salt can be added, which can achieve certain results. Reference prescription 2: In the early and middle stages, 1 to 5 ppm furazolidone powder can be sprinkled throughout the tank. Dip a matchstick in methyl blue crystal powder and rinse it into the sick fish tank until it changes color. Both have good effects. Reference prescription 3: In the early and middle stages, put red mercury into the water until it turns light red. It has a good effect in eliminating pathogens, but it cannot be used repeatedly because mercury is toxic and is not easy for fish to excrete. Reference prescription 4: In the middle and late stages, the specific drug is mercurous nitrate, but fish are very sensitive to this drug and it is easy to cause death. Therefore, it is generally not used. A piece the size of a mung bean can be placed in a 90×45×60 (cm) box. This medicine cannot be used repeatedly.

2. This disease is not limited to guppies, but can be contracted by all fish. In the early stages, fish will feel uncomfortable due to body aches, and will rub their bodies against the bottom sand and stones, and will be emotionally unstable. In the early stages, small white spots will appear on the fins of the fish, and gradually spread to other parts of the fish. The fish will ulcerate and bleed, have a loss of appetite, and have difficulty breathing, and eventually die.

Treatment method: Apply sodium quinate sulfate (sodium quinate hydrochloride can also be used), the dosage is 0.1 gram of sodium quinate sulfate soaked in 10 liters of water and stirred thoroughly. The aquarium where the sick fish grows is fully soaked in the mixture of this proportion for treatment. After 1-2 weeks, further decision can be made based on the symptoms and treatment results.

Increase the temperature of the water tank! According to research, the most suitable water temperature for the pathogen of white spot disease is 15℃～17℃. It will stop dividing and multiplying when it exceeds 25℃. Therefore, slowly increase the water temperature to 28-30℃ until the white spots on the diseased fish completely fall off.

Adding about 1% salt every time you change the water is the most effective way to fight white spot disease in the early stages.

If the OP's fish has tail rot, well, this

Often due to overfeeding and frequent water changes, the water quality deteriorates, causing the edges of the fins to fall off and the fish to move slowly! Male guppies often shrink their wide triangular tails into "one" tail due to sudden changes in water quality!

Treatment method: Change half of the water first, and do this for 5 to 8 days before giving treatment depending on the situation. The most important thing when feeding guppies is to "change the water frequently". The filter cotton should be cleaned regularly to prevent the growth of bacteria.

White tail disease

[Cause] Due to unclean water quality, especially the feces in the aquarium is not removed in time, or due to careless operation during fishing, transportation, stocking, moving and selling boxes, the fish are injured and lead to infection by pathogens.

[Pathogen] It is a Gram-negative bacillus called Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

[Symptoms] When the disease begins to spread, only a small white spot appears at the base of the dorsal fin or the caudal peduncle, which then quickly expands and spreads from the dorsal fin to the back of the fish, so that the body surface between the dorsal fin and the anal fin to the caudal fin turns white. As the disease worsens, the swimming ability of the sick fish is significantly weakened, the body balance is out of control, the head is facing up, the caudal fin is facing up, and it swims vertically up and down the water surface and struggles, and soon dies. The disease is prevalent from May to August every year. The fish die 2-3 days after the onset of the disease, and the mortality rate is extremely high.

[Treatment method] You can use 12.5 ppm chlortetracycline or 25 ppm oxytetracycline aqueous solution to soak for 30 minutes. You can also use 1 ppm bleaching powder or 2 to 4 ppm (2 to 4 ppm) gallnut to spray in the aquarium for disinfection.

The color of the sun in front of the guppy suddenly turned white, and it must be that he had Saprolegniasis.

It can be disinfected and sterilized by soaking in potassium permanganate for ten minutes.

It seems that the water temperature can be raised to above 35 degrees, and the Saprolegniasis can be cured without medication.

If the spine of the guppy is white, it is time to treat it with a single tank, and the recovery will be faster.