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Set up a hosital tank for the ill female guppy today. This is mainly to that we can add salt to the water she’s in without subjecting all the fish to a saline solution! (in particular the cory doens’t like salt). A number of sources have suggested that a g of salt per litre will help.
The practicalities of it were pretty easy actually, we got the old small tank out, and then set up the filter and stuff in it and checked the light. (not that we actually had it on, nicer to keep her in the restful dark). Then we did a water change for the main tank, but rather than throw away the old water we put it into the small tank. It’s remarkable that to fill this tank only needs two and a bit buckets of water when the water change on new tank is 4 buckets! We also changed a filter in the main tank, and cut a bit off the old filter media to put in hospital tank as a filter there. All this was intended to minimise the change in environment that occured between the tanks.
After that put her in when the temps had stabilised and then added the first of 3 dessert spoons of salt.

I really hope this helps her, the saline water is said to be good at reducing the sweeling that she’s suffering, but if it’s a tumor there’ll be no recovery and we may need to put her down. She doesn’t seem to be suffering atm, just sitting on the bottom.

We also added the appropriate dose of the antibacterial solution to both tanks (inc the main as really don’t want anything to have been infecting others, and a couple do look slightly podgy but maybe that’s just paranoia)

To recap for main tank, 40l water change, green filter water change, and added treatment.