Guppy Homicide

[EOD]

My neighbor keeps coming over complaining of her guppies being murdered. Today she brought a corpse over and it's entire rear section had been pulled off, leaving its bones exposed. I cannot figure out what fish could be causing this and I don't think her filter intake is THAT high powered to rip a fish to pieces. She has a 29 gallon take with fake plants, smooth pebble substrate and a millenium 3000 hob filter (discontinued). She has several male and female guppies, platys, mollys, and to my dismay a very small goldfish. I do not know why she chose to put such small fish in this large tank or why she chose the goldfish but she did what she did. Any ideas on why they keep dying? My first idea was this 6 inch long BN pleco that was in there which she gave me because I told her it might be him. I put him in my tank with my convicts.

Any ideas? I'll update you soon with how many of each type of fish are in there.

 

[biohazardcustomz]

ive had goldfish nip fins and eat my guppies before (put in momentarily to eat some snails good idea for the snails bad idea for the guppies) and there's always a few crazy guppies that will kill each other. ive had it happen before in a tank with just guppies and mollies. usually its larger female guppies that cause the most problems for me.

 

[EOD]

Hmmm. That's interesting. Update on the fish types in there.
12 mollies and i think most are lyretail
3 platies
7 guppies
2 small plecos
2 mickey mouse mollies???
Basically tons of mollies of different types and some guppies. There is also a breeder cage thing in there holding molly and guppy fry that were born when she got the fish from the store. Is it ok to put those types of fry together? could the fry being separate from their parents be causing aggression??
IMO none of those fish are very nice looking and the tank looks like a box full of different types of candy...its just weird
any new ideas? to stop aggression separate female guppies?

 

[biohazardcustomz]

well the micky mouse are probally platys. they sell those at petsmart. white with black mickey head on their tail or red with black mickey head ive see as well. mixing the fry is fine and they dont usually get aggressive when you seperate them from fry because they just want to eat them anyway. the mollies do get bigger than the guppies and could be bullying them. also when a small fish dies the other fish will start to eat it. so it may not be murder afterall. has she done water changes, checked her water, etc. how long has she had the tank up? also livebearers can also have internal parasites that kill them off one by one. does her fish have white stringy poo?

 

[ar0wan]

I think she probably is into you
you should drop a line and see if you can get a bite