Sick fish

Hi

This is really strange to me. I have a young guppy (4 months) that appears to have its back broken(this is not genetics as I've culled all my misformed guppies a long while ago) any thoughts?

Water temp at 24
Water parameters are unchanged for the past 4 months
I did recently do a massive re-scape however which included an almost 80 percent water change (thus was on Saturday)
The wood I'm using has been tested and used in another tank without problems before I moved it over.


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It could have injured itself, otherwise it could be a long term issue that just appeared now. The faulty genes, or back condition, could have went unnoticed

 

I assume he was fine before the re-scape?Is there a chance that something might have toppled over and crushed him?

 

Jinx Hendreyou owe me a coke!

 

Definitely nothing crushed him everything is still as it was (all my fish were fine when I checked them this morning)
The scape is very sturdy

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If all the fish are ok and not showing any signs of being sick, i would alo go with an injury but how it happened i suppose is anyone's guess..

It could as @Hendre said be something that has been lurking but its very prominent to just become so bad overnight.. I would think thatif it had been lurking for some time, it would have been a gradual process

 

Update - this started happening to several of my young fish, but after increasing my temp to 26 the problem stopped (it was either an infection/parasite or too low Temps) all is good now.

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did you add any fish recently?
2 of the pet shops I've been to in the last month lost most, if not all, of their guppies.
Saddle back seems to be the main cause.
Check for signs.

 

That's great @Stephan Liebenberg
Glad all is well now
How about some pictures... always nice to see how it's evolving

 

Hi I will give some pics

The first few is just after adding plants, some weeks back and the second after getting my new Rams, the guppies are outside in a summer breeding tub at the moment (crossing fingers for some nice fry - but from the looks of it I have some bad genetics in them so will have to wait and see)

The roseline barb I got along with some other guppies from a friend who switched to Malawi cyclids.
Enjoy

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No, the last Month I only added fish from a friend - all who are healthy, and now recently 3 electric blue Rams, (the same tank but the guppies were removed about a week prior) is saddle back transferable between species? Sure hope not, how would one go about combating it?

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