why are all of my molly fish dieing? they dont have any signs of ick?

Answer 1

Ich is only one disease of many that can affect your fish. In addition to disease is the possibility of poor water conditions. For us to help you we will need lots more information about your tank and what the fish look like, act like and etc just before they died. Also, information on how you currently maintain your tank and what chemicals you regularly use would be very helpful.

While water chemistry readings are very important, they are only one possible indicator of the problem in your tank. As a general rule, ammonia should read 0, nitrites should, but rarely read exactly 0 and nitrates will never read 0 unless you have a very serious problem in your tank. If you can include any of these readings, they would be helpful to figuring out what's wrong.

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Answer 2

Your fish is fatally injured already. Once they hit the bottom and start gasping, it is the end. Best to empty the tank, clean everything thoroughly, and start over. Remember ick is brought into a tank from the outside. In the past, I have put my new fish into a cup with a heavy concentration of ick medication and left them there for five or ten minutes. Not long enough to hurt the fish, but long enough to kill the parasites. If you do an online search for "Ick prevention" you can probably get the concentration of the correct medication to do this. It worked very well because the parasites only take a minute or so to kill because they are so small and their metabolism is much faster than their host.

Answer 3

Ich is not the only disease of fish. There are tons of fish diseases, but virtually all of them can be linked most of the time, to poor water quality. Do you test your water? If not, you need to get a test kit, drops, that test ammonia, nitrites and nitrates. All of these should read 0 ppm. If any of these read above 0, you need to do an initial 50% water change immediately, in fact, do that right now anyway, and then daily changes of around 20% until your readings come back down to 0. Adding chemicals will not buy good water quality. With regard to what disease your fish may have, we would need a more specific description of their physical symptoms as well as their behavior. Then we could help you determine what they have and how to treat it. The only general cure we can offer is to add salt; about 1 tsp per 5 gallons of water. Don't use iodized salt. Aquarium salt, rock salt, kosher salt. Pre-dissolve it in water, then mix into the tank slowly. In fact, mollies prefer brackish water, which means, low salt level water, anyway.

Answer 4

Mollies are susceptible to many diseases. They prefer hard akaline water instead of neutrel or soft acidic water. So add some aquarium salt.

Answer 5

Your fish could have a dirty tank or the pet store your going to could have the wrong temperature water! You should go somewhere else and see what happens!

Answer 6

Elaberation will help but have you tested your water, if you have tabs throw them away and go get your water tested at your local pet store, with the information you have shared I can not come up with an exact answer!

Answer 7

your ammonia levels could b too high n your tank.Try changing the water and vaccum the gravel.ammonia will get 2 high from waste (poop) n the tank.

Answer 8

the most likely cause is due to poor water quality

Answer 9

cheek the water temp and conditions. are they being over feed?

Answer 10

idk maybe they have bad tank conditions that are hard to spot out, such as a faulty filter. Other then that idk.