Mollie is now white???

Question

It isnt ick because the rest are fine ive had her about 6 months and she just seems to be loosing color she was bright orange now the color just looks to be drained from her body... she is swimming around fine... and eats good still... and not spots her whole body but tip of tail is now almost albino white looking.,.. should i be concerned... or is she gettin old she is about 2-3 in long so i think shes getting older...

Also as a side note i have alot guppies and thier tails are shreded i bought them from pet store not long ago like that how it best way to fix thier tails to look pretty again??

I need more live plants where best place online to get them?

Answer 1

The Mollie is turning color because it wants to mate. After it mates successfully for not it will change back. Pretty cool. Be careful with live plants I think there are a hassle. but that's just me I have a 125gal fresh water tank and I think dollar for dollar plastic plants are the way to go. side note IF you want you fish to mate raising the PH in the tank for certain species will make them want to mate

Answer 2

Never ever change the pH if your fish are healthy

Your goldies sound like they have finrot and your molly like it has ammonia poisening, both caused due to bad water quality

Check your ammonia levels, if they're not at "0" do a 50% waterchange right away, and add 1 tablespoon of aquarium salt to each gallon dissolved in a cup with tankwater before pouring it in. Keep up with partial waterchanges of 25% daily, and repeat the treatment of salt, but only as much salt for as many gallons you change

Let's say you have a 10 gallon tank, put in 10 tablespoons of salt in there the first time

When doing the partial waterchange, you will need to add only 2.5 tablespoons of salt, since you're only changing 25% of the tankwater

Keep that up until you see that the fins stop disappearing


Hope that helps
Good luck


EB



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