Black moor and guppies?

Question

i had about 20 guppies and a goldfish in a 60 gallon tank , and i recently added 1 black moor , and now 2-3 guppies are dying each day , i also noticed that the guppies head and tail was gone ,

The temperature of the tank is 50 degrees , and the ph is 6-7

Should i take the black moor out? Or am i feeding them too little ? What should i do ?

Answer 1

The black moor is a goldfish. Goldfish are coldwater, nippy, messy and need heavily filtered tanks.

The guppies are fragile tropical fish with tails just asking to be nipped. They need tanks of at least 75 degrees, not 50.

Get the guppies another tropical tank. Chances are they are being nipped by the goldfish and the addition of another goldie would have upped any mess in the tank, without very regular gravel vacs for poopy and excess food and ammonia spike is very likely.

Answer 2

Firstly guppies are tropical as in warm water fish and black moors are cold water fish.  So the two shouldn't really be in the same tank anyway.  They need different heat and ph settings to thrive.  The size of the black moor compared to the guppies puts them slightly at risk anyway and they are known for nipping.

You need to have two seperate tanks.  I keep warm and cold water fish tanks and make sure I do not cross the two over.

Answer 3

take the black moor out and put him in with the goldfish, they are very nippy fish and should be housed with larger or the same species of fish.