Fungus!

Well, the guppy female I was given recently turns out to have fungus. A day after she arrived, she had small spots on her caudal fin. I assumed it was white spot and turned the tank temp up. The spots appeared to clear. Today I came into work to find her with larger spots on her caudal fin, pectoral fins. anal fin and belly. It looks like fungus

I’ve done a 40% water change (they were due one anyway) and removed the carbon from their filter. Then I added 2mls of Methylene Blue (2.44%). The medicine that puts the fun in fungus! The tank’s now a dark blue & I occasionally see a fish swim past. It’s made the fungus on her stand out. Thankfully, none of the other fish are glowing with fungus although I’m worried about the two other adult guppies; they have slight tears in their tails from when I had to change the filter last, there’s a chance the fungus might affect them.

Dosage is 1ml/2 gallons every 4 days until symptoms clear so we’ll see how it goes. It’s a pain because I was hoping to take the baby guppies to the petshop this week. Hoping the methylene blue won’t harm the fry. They seem full of it so far!

My new book arrived yesterday too, Holistic Care For Birds. An interesting read so far (about 4 pages in -.-)