tom731
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Hi, I woke up today to find one of my Mollies dead. Over the past two days this molly has seemed lethargic, just sitting at the bottom of the tank although he would still swim around and eat at feeding time.
I am really at a loss to say why he died and am worried that it could be something contagious. There is no signs of disease on his body (picture attached) although I did notice that he had long poops of varying colour over the past week that he would swim around with still attached (Iām no expert so Iām not sure if this was a problem or not). That was before he started sitting on the bottom.
All my other fish (two mollies, 6 cardinals, 2 bronze cories) are happy and my water quality is good. The UK has had a heatwave the past few days and I know my tank temp has gone up to 28/29 degrees which is too high, I do have two airstones in there though to help with oxygenation and as I say, the other two mollies were fine with this. The temperature has gone back to 26 now though.
the tank is also being treated for ich with protozin. There were no signs of ich on the molly though. The only fish affected by the ich are the cardinals which seems odd but thatās another Issue.
thanks for the help!
I am really at a loss to say why he died and am worried that it could be something contagious. There is no signs of disease on his body (picture attached) although I did notice that he had long poops of varying colour over the past week that he would swim around with still attached (Iām no expert so Iām not sure if this was a problem or not). That was before he started sitting on the bottom.
All my other fish (two mollies, 6 cardinals, 2 bronze cories) are happy and my water quality is good. The UK has had a heatwave the past few days and I know my tank temp has gone up to 28/29 degrees which is too high, I do have two airstones in there though to help with oxygenation and as I say, the other two mollies were fine with this. The temperature has gone back to 26 now though.
the tank is also being treated for ich with protozin. There were no signs of ich on the molly though. The only fish affected by the ich are the cardinals which seems odd but thatās another Issue.
thanks for the help!