Hitzl
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Hey guys! First time poster here. I have not been able to find any info on this issue so I created an account in the hopes of someone helping me or at least informing me on what this issue is so I can avoid it happening again.
Little backstory: my apartment building cought on fire and I had to leave my fish behind for a couple hours with out electricity (no heating) in the middle of winter (-3). This was about 4 days ago. I was able to retrieve my fishes and transport them to a small 7 liter aquarium in the hopes of saving them. They were halfway frozen but they all made it through the night. I collected my 50 liter tank from the smoke damaged apartment, cleaned it and ran the filter for the night with some quick save chemicals to try to balance it out. The fish were not doing great in the small tank so decided to put them in the big one. Obviously the water wasn't in balance as it should be (I usually run it for a week or two before testing the water and adding fish) Needless to say it was a horrible situation for everyone. I just wanted to give them a fighting chance.
I have 5 black mollies 2 shrimp and 2 bottom feeders. Everyone seems to be doing ok. Eating and looking lively. Fingers crossed they would make it through. But yesterday night, within the span of 2 hours that I didn't check the tank, one of the mollies had a horrible abscess coming from the belly/anus. It looks like weird red eggs, empty. I thought it was her guts but it really looks like eggs.
I understand that the stress of the situation had probably a lot to do with this... I'm just worried she is suffering and maybe I should put her out of her misery... Anyway... I've attached a pic.
Little backstory: my apartment building cought on fire and I had to leave my fish behind for a couple hours with out electricity (no heating) in the middle of winter (-3). This was about 4 days ago. I was able to retrieve my fishes and transport them to a small 7 liter aquarium in the hopes of saving them. They were halfway frozen but they all made it through the night. I collected my 50 liter tank from the smoke damaged apartment, cleaned it and ran the filter for the night with some quick save chemicals to try to balance it out. The fish were not doing great in the small tank so decided to put them in the big one. Obviously the water wasn't in balance as it should be (I usually run it for a week or two before testing the water and adding fish) Needless to say it was a horrible situation for everyone. I just wanted to give them a fighting chance.
I have 5 black mollies 2 shrimp and 2 bottom feeders. Everyone seems to be doing ok. Eating and looking lively. Fingers crossed they would make it through. But yesterday night, within the span of 2 hours that I didn't check the tank, one of the mollies had a horrible abscess coming from the belly/anus. It looks like weird red eggs, empty. I thought it was her guts but it really looks like eggs.
I understand that the stress of the situation had probably a lot to do with this... I'm just worried she is suffering and maybe I should put her out of her misery... Anyway... I've attached a pic.
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