I'm just wondering what you think. Is it common to have a balloon molly that is orange with many tiny perfectly placed and sized white stripes across its body and to have little black spots all over the place?
See, my favorite fish is a balloon molly and I have a couple of them. Whenever I go to the pet store and look at balloon mollies, I only see oranges and whites. So I am wondering if this is (on a scale of one to ten as ten being very rare) common or rare or what...? So 1-10...
2006-08-29 10:16:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
And cuitegirl, it ISN'T a parasite. It's a marking. I've had him a long time. And peeps, you're forgetting the 1-10 scale!
2006-08-29 10:25:48 · update #1
I TOLD YOU, THE BLACK IS A MARKING!
M-A-R-K-I-N-G!!!!!!!! NOT ICK!!!!!!!
2006-08-29 10:38:12 · update #2
In our first tank, we had this one molly we called Goldie - I believe she was a gold-dusted molly. She was ...well, I'm not sure if she was primarily orange with black specks, or if she was primarily black with orange specks, but she was a gorgeous fish. Then, when we moved, we had to find her a new home.
Since then, I've never seen a gold-dusted molly that looks anything like she did. It's kind of depressing... *sigh*
Anyway, that being said, I'm going to take a gander and say this is a bit rare, like an 8 or so. Only because we have looked into getting more of the gold-dusted mollies, and we simply cannot find them.
2006-08-29 15:04:41 · answer #1 · answered by birdistasty 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just a color variation. I've seen them in all colors-black, white, black & white, orange, just depends on what they were bred with.
I actually have a cory cat that is black with orange fins and a "pearl" belly. Can't find the specific breed anywhere, was told he was just a color morph. And found him of all places, Walmart. He was the only one, in a tank with albino cory cats.
2006-08-29 17:22:18 · answer #2 · answered by tikitiki 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uh oh! hate to tell u this but he might have ick! go to a nearby petstore and buy some ick treatment.but yeah, it is very common to have a ballon molly that"s orange or white! good luck!!!
2006-08-29 17:30:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
if you have had it a long time be thankful that you got a unique one and let it go at that. especially if your fish has always looked like that
2006-08-29 19:45:21 · answer #4 · answered by Forever Looking 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no its not my fish hade parisites like that and killed two fish and after i got parisite clear it was goon
2006-08-29 17:23:06 · answer #5 · answered by cuitegirl109 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i would aask the pet store
2006-08-29 17:21:55 · answer #6 · answered by Kayli 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋