I have a black molly and one side of her tail has gone white and limp, she looks sad and is staying near the top of the tank. All the other fish seem ok although one died a few days ago but she had just given birth so i dont think it was related. Any suggestions, im currently giving her a salt bath but any other ideas wold be helpfull.
2007-02-26 08:10:13 · 9 answers · asked by kirsty 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
It's most likely a fungus or fin rot. If it's fungus the salt bath will really help. Mollies can stand very strong salt in their water so a long term treatment of up to a tablespoon per gallon will be just fine for it. Raise the salt slowly, over the course of a day and allow the fish to stay in this bath for a week.
If it's fin rot you will need to treat with an antibiotic. Furnance and Marycn are the two best choices. Just treat as directed and keep the water very clean during treatment. Don;t forget to remove the carbon from your filter while you treat though or it will remove the medication.
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2007-02-26 08:20:33 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like fungus or fin rot and it needs treating or the other fish will get it! Try going to the local aquarium shop as medications are available! The salt bath will help anyway!
Fungus >If you have any other species with your mollys it could be you have a fin nipper. There are several species that attack long finned or tailed fish! They could have caused an injury or the fish could have damaged it on something in the tank. The fungus then attacks the tissues.
Fin Rot is a bacterial infection.
When treating dont forget to remove any carbon from the filter!
2007-02-26 11:59:48 · answer #2 · answered by willowGSD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it truly is likely that your rainbow shark has attacked your molly, because they get quite aggressive at the same time as they settle a territory. you would possibly want to positioned your molly in a smaller (perhaps 10 gallon) tank it truly is provided with purely a heater and a clear out, serving as her quarantine tank. the following she will be able to get better, yet watch her primary and note if she is getting extra useful. The sex of a molly is determined by that is anal fin (the perfect fan-like fin before the tail on the bottom of the fish). it truly is pointed and changed right into a gonopodium in adult males, and it fan like in women. sure, in the experience that your dalmation and black mollies are opposite sexes, they are going to mate.
2016-10-17 09:11:09 · answer #3 · answered by forker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Internet search for tropical fish should provide the answer. Numerous treatments available from good pet shops.
2007-02-26 08:31:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it sounds like whitespot. You can treat it by buying treatment from your local pet shop. You just add it to the water at regular intervals. Odds on most of your other fish will get it if you don't treat it now.
2007-02-26 08:18:28 · answer #5 · answered by mishnbong 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have any Siamese fighters in aswell, cos they fight the other fish and bite chunks off each other, if you have, they will end up killing your fish.
2007-02-26 08:22:12 · answer #6 · answered by Jeanette 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is turning into a white molly, it has body image issues
2007-02-26 08:49:16 · answer #7 · answered by ditto 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this sounds like fin rot which can be treated by water changes and fin rot soultion
2007-02-26 09:08:55 · answer #8 · answered by raymond s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to get "ick away" because your Molly has ick and its about to die.You need to put it in ASAP.
2007-02-26 11:51:56 · answer #9 · answered by renzoval3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋