Bloodworms Harming My Molly?

[mwood2]

ok so I just fed my Molly and my 2 dwarf frogs some frozen bloodworms. I did the same thing a day or 2 ago. Each time my Molly has seemed to get slugish and also not really swim but rather just flot around or even just float at the bottom. Last time i just changed the water and she was fine. I did it again not even 30min ago and she's still the same. Her top is isnt up either.

Any ideas?

Also I tested the water before feeding and it was ammonai 0 and nitrite 0. Didnt even have the worms in 10min before she started acting like this, thats when i changed the water.


Also to feed them the blood worms I put a cube into a bowl and put some tank water over the cube to defrost it, From there I use a dropper to put thw worms in the tank.

 

[Athena]

Can I ask how much of the cube you feed them? If you only have only molly and two ADFs then you only need to put 2 or 3 pinches of bloodworms in for one feed. Put the rest in the fridge for the next feed, then discard any leftovers.

What might be happening is that your Molly is getting a bit constipated from them. Try giving some squashed pea at the next feed and don't feed her bloodworms for a few days. Try giving her some daphnia or brine shrimp (frozen or dried if you can't get live food) or failing that, normal flake food.

I know it's difficult when you have ADFs in with fish because you want to feed them the bloodworms but the fish automatically eat whatever is put into the tank. But ADFs can survive fine being fed bloodworms every few days rather than daily. They will also eat other things, like dried brine shrimp, or the brine shrimp that you can now get in little sachets in jelly form. They will also nip at shrimp and certain pellet foods.

Hope that will help - Athena

ps - just noticed that you only have a 5g tank - this is quite small so you need to be sure that you are only feeding the minimum amount at any given time otherwise you will cause an ammonia spike after feeding - any uneaten food can quickly contaminate the water quality, especially as you have such a small water volume.