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i recently moved my female mollies from a 10gallon to the bigger 24g nano cube, and moved the males into the 10g i only have four males and after some acidental breeding i now have 17 females. this morning i found one of the female mollies swimming erradically. she can not stay straight even when resting she looks like she is bent near the tail looks sort of like the ( key. when she does swim, its in loops, either sprialing from the side or doing back flips, there is no sign of ICK, and i can see nothing else physically wrong. i moved her into a 1 gallon tank with a small filter and added some marycn 2. but i have no idea what is wrong with her and am not sure if it is going to effect all the other inhabitants of the tank she was in. any idea what this may be and how best to treat it.
thanks

2007-02-07 16:37:00 · 4 answers · asked by ghost 3 in Pets Fish

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Symptoms Cause Treatment and Links
A). The fish whirl or wobble around the aquarium This is a gram-positive bacterial infection of the swim bladder known as: Whirling disease Treat with TMP Sulfa -or- Erythromycin
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2007-02-07 16:45:28 · answer #1 · answered by Patrick D 1 · 1 0

Without a doubt swim badder infection, but not real whirling disease which only infects salmonids, not your fish. Either way though treat with a good gram positive anitboitic (One of the Marycn products is gram positive, be sure you have the right one) but do be aware that 1: this will kill your nitrogen cycle and you will have to start it up again and 2: the chances of saving the fish are very, very slim. Once the disease is this far along ( and usually you can tell the fish is sick until it's this bad) the death rate is about 80-85%. Removing the fish before it dies will in almost all cases prevent the other fish from getting it, but if you leave the fish until it does die there is a strong possibility that at least some of your other fish will catch the disease.

Don't forget to remove the carbon from your filter while you medicate. The carbon will remove the medications quite quickly.

2007-02-08 00:59:21 · answer #2 · answered by magicman116 7 · 1 0

Mollies are to gentle to save in a bowl surroundings. like numerous different people reported, aquariums at the instantaneous are not that onerous to save sparkling. also, when you're eliminating all the water per week, you at the instantaneous are not giving the water time to condition, and boost the solid bacteria a healthful tank needs, and the fish are growing very much shocked with clean water situations with each and each change. attempt a small tank from a puppy save, smaller then 10 gallons, and also you may do your water change with a pitcher. Scoop out a pair pitcher fulls once a week, and upload some clean dechlorinated water to substitute it. in case you save up on the water changes, you do not even decide on to sparkling the gravel, the solid bacteria save it sparkling. yet another user-friendly way is that if the tank is small, purchase 2 pitchers of a similar length. Fill one pitcher with generic tap water, and set it close to the tank for a minimum of 24 hours. This shall we the chlorine burn up (chlorine is a gas) and shall we the water tournament a similar temperature of the tank. each few days, scoop or drain one pitcher well worth of water, and replace it with the different pitcher that you had sitting there. in case you save your residing area at a real looking temperature above 70-72degrees, then you absolutely do not decide on a water heater for the tank, mollies can cope with it.

2016-12-03 21:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by lemmer 4 · 0 0

Mabey swimming bloat which it sounds alot like you can get a treatment form your local fish store/ pet store any in pretty sure that will work also put a little aquarium salt in their it helps when they are sick in general.

2007-02-07 18:09:14 · answer #4 · answered by shana 2 · 1 0

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