Hey everybody.
I have this female dalmation molly. She is in a 180L planted tank with around twenty or so tank mates, none of them aggressive. The dominant fish is another Molly, a large black male, but he is not bullying her.
All the readings in the tank are normal and stable. Ammonia 0, NitrIte 0, NitrAte 5-10, PH 7.8 - 8. The tank is fairly mature at about 5 months.
There has been one death about 3 weeks ago. It was a tiny Panda Corydoras. When he died, there were no obvious symptoms as to the cause, and as now, all the tank readings were normal and stable.
Anyway, this female Molly has over the last 10 days or so been very lathargic and lazy. She spends all the time just resting on the bottom of the tank and not moving much at all, although she can still swim. She is feeding and will still swim to the surface at feeding time. She is showing no other signs of stress that I can see, although she does appear to be breathing faster than normal.
No other fish in the tank are exhibiting this behaviour. I really don't know what the matter is, I have been expecting to wake up in the morning for the last week or so, to find her dead, but she is still with us, and her condition hasn't changed now for a while.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be going on? If it was anything serious, I would have expected her to be pushing up the daisies by now? But then, Im no expert, and none of my books have been much help.
I have this female dalmation molly. She is in a 180L planted tank with around twenty or so tank mates, none of them aggressive. The dominant fish is another Molly, a large black male, but he is not bullying her.
All the readings in the tank are normal and stable. Ammonia 0, NitrIte 0, NitrAte 5-10, PH 7.8 - 8. The tank is fairly mature at about 5 months.
There has been one death about 3 weeks ago. It was a tiny Panda Corydoras. When he died, there were no obvious symptoms as to the cause, and as now, all the tank readings were normal and stable.
Anyway, this female Molly has over the last 10 days or so been very lathargic and lazy. She spends all the time just resting on the bottom of the tank and not moving much at all, although she can still swim. She is feeding and will still swim to the surface at feeding time. She is showing no other signs of stress that I can see, although she does appear to be breathing faster than normal.
No other fish in the tank are exhibiting this behaviour. I really don't know what the matter is, I have been expecting to wake up in the morning for the last week or so, to find her dead, but she is still with us, and her condition hasn't changed now for a while.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be going on? If it was anything serious, I would have expected her to be pushing up the daisies by now? But then, Im no expert, and none of my books have been much help.
