Another Question/reason Behind My Madness

[jmain]

Ok so I know even though yall said I should wait I ended up buying 3 mollies & 1 cory cat last night (first reasoning behind my plan was my 10 gallon tank needed 2 lights and one of the lights on my big tank went out and I'm not going to drive 45 minutes just to buy bulbs with no fish.)

I also figured since now I have a good source of well water that I'm going to change out another 15 gallons pretty soon anyway so why not add just a few fish before I do the change (planning on doing it Sunday if something spikes if not waiting for the next Sunday)

But for my question all my fish seem fine I added them at 6 pm last night and at noon today during my lunch I checked them out (feed them some flake food this morning before work and gave a piece of brine shrimp cube as a treat for every) but back to the question. All the fish look fine no fin nipping or any of that going on yet I noticed both cory cats were together and eating some but my male mollie is at the top of the tank popping all the bubbles is this something to really worry about or no? I watched the fish for about 2 hours last night (with tank light off but the living room lights on and he was hanging out with the females and all seemed to be ok). Also one female has a little yellow dot could this be part of her coloring before I got her or is it something from the tank?

So my two questions are the yellow dot on one female and my male popping all the bubbles need to be worried or no?

 

[jmain]

Was able to watch the fish for a little while now and I noticed that my mollies are eating the floating plants some so I'm wondering if when they are going around the top I'm wondering if they are eating some falling off the plants or something like that?

 

[jmkgreen]

Photo of the fish with the yellow dot would be appreciated.

I'd not worry about their behaviour quite yet - leave them without food for 2-3 days and they'll learn to eat what you give them.

 

[jmain]

Photo of the fish with the yellow dot would be appreciated.

I'd not worry about their behaviour quite yet - leave them without food for 2-3 days and they'll learn to eat what you give them.

I have been trying but shes just not having it. Its right around her belly and its just kinda like the size of a tip of a pen (I'm hoping its just her markings but not sure) like I said they 3 mollies are new but all my other fish seem to be doing fine. Also my nitrites tested at 0 today yay

 

[OldMan47]

A molly browsing from plant matter is to be expected unless you have a food that they prefer. Mollies love their veggies, unlike most of our kids. They also eat the microorganisms that live on floating plants so there is nothing at all wrong with that behavior. The yellow spot may be as you think just a colored spot on the fish. If you could get a clear picture, we might be able to guess whether that assumption is likely to be right but I find it hard to judge things like that even from very clear pictures.

 

[jmain]

A molly browsing from plant matter is to be expected unless you have a food that they prefer. Mollies love their veggies, unlike most of our kids. They also eat the microorganisms that live on floating plants so there is nothing at all wrong with that behavior. The yellow spot may be as you think just a colored spot on the fish. If you could get a clear picture, we might be able to guess whether that assumption is likely to be right but I find it hard to judge things like that even from very clear pictures.

She still seems to be doing fine but she wont let me get a pic. Either she won't stay still enough or since the spot is so small you can't see it well. Another thing that I'm pretty happy is even though its only been 3 days since I added the 3 mollies and the cory cat none of my water test have changed. Everything is still at 0 I'm going to let it got for about another week/week and half before I get any more fish. Next thing I'm getting is 2 more black skirts 2 red eye tetras and 1 more cory cat which will put my tank at

3 dalmation mollies
5 black skirt tetras
5 red eye tetras
1 tetra serpa
3 cory cats
1 pleco

I still wouldn't have to worry about my fish count since its a 75 gallon tank right?

 

[OldMan47]

You won't need to worry much about your final stocking levels by adding a few more fish to a tank that size.

The thing you do need to worry about is that the more fish you have during a fish-in cycle, the more and larger water changes it will take to keep the ammonia and nitrites from killing or permanently damaging your fish. If you are willing to do a few 50 gallon daily water changes, you could even fully stock the tank but don't try it unless you are willing to do those water changes every day for at least a month.

 

[jmain]

You won't need to worry much about your final stocking levels by adding a few more fish to a tank that size.

The thing you do need to worry about is that the more fish you have during a fish-in cycle, the more and larger water changes it will take to keep the ammonia and nitrites from killing or permanently damaging your fish. If you are willing to do a few 50 gallon daily water changes, you could even fully stock the tank but don't try it unless you are willing to do those water changes every day for at least a month.

How long does it take to do a cycle? All my levels are at 0 (well besides nitrates those are 10) but ammonia and nitrites are 0

 

[OldMan47]

A typical fish-in cycle runs from 4 to 6 weeks but can take much longer. It will need constant attention if you don't mess about with stocking levels just to stay on top of the chemical testing and water changes. If you start stocking to high levels, you face the very high water change rates that I referred to in the previous post but would still need to do lots of chemical testing to judge how much water to change how often to keep both ammonia and nitrite levels below 0.25 ppm at all times.

 

[jmain]

A typical fish-in cycle runs from 4 to 6 weeks but can take much longer. It will need constant attention if you don't mess about with stocking levels just to stay on top of the chemical testing and water changes. If you start stocking to high levels, you face the very high water change rates that I referred to in the previous post but would still need to do lots of chemical testing to judge how much water to change how often to keep both ammonia and nitrite levels below 0.25 ppm at all times.

Since I have had the fish in there I have only done 1 water change which was 15 gallons and since then I haven't wanted to mess with it since its been testing good lately