Dead Mollie

[stiffler69]

Purchased 4 mollies today and placed them in my 54 litre tank and came home this evening to one been dead, all parameters are fine the tank is mature and has been running for months so its not water quality, however there is no salt added in the water as its mainly a tank for breeding brittle nose plecs and as i know they are sensistive to this im not prepared to add salt on account of the mollies and the lfs said there tanks did not have any salt in the tank they were in. So do you think this could be just down to stress of the move?

 

[kribensis12]

What is your water result's? They do better in my experience with salt. Mollies to prestine water quality to do well. They also dont move well. I added 2 new female dalmation mollies to my 30g almost a week ago. 1 female isnt doing too well, the other is bouncing off the wall's. So it is probably stress.

 

[stiffler69]

What is your water result's? They do better in my experience with salt. Mollies to prestine water quality to do well. They also dont move well. I added 2 new female dalmation mollies to my 30g almost a week ago. 1 female isnt doing too well, the other is bouncing off the wall's. So it is probably stress.

Not checked the parameters this evening so i wouldnt have a accurate reading but they were all fine a few days ago when the tank was moved and cleaned ive also had plattys in their for about 4 days they doing great aswell as my britle nose plecs are too so i can only imagine its the factor with the salt.

Thanks for the reply and happy new year

 

[chibi]

It could be one of two things, I think. One could be introducing all four at once in a smaller tank could stress them out immensely. The bioload could have shocked them. Like, if their water was poor quality, and they dove right into very clean water. They also could have been sick at the store. I can remember I introduced about 7 guppies at once into my tank and they all died within 3 days. They were purebreds, too... I paid $7 a fish! I wouldn't buy anymore from the tank you purchased them from. About the salt thing... mollies don't need salt to survive. They do well with it, but it's not mandatory. At least, that's what I have discovered through keeping them.

 

[stiffler69]

Hi thanks for the replys it seems to of been isolated to just one of the mollies, what i now remember when she arrive we thought she was maybe pregnant as she was much fatter than the other females, but showed no gravid spot so maybe it was internal parasites