Fuming with Dalmation Mollies

[mells]

Hey Peeps,

Im not sure if any of you have expeirenced this with Dalmation Mollies, but your thoughts will be appriechated.

I had two seperate tanks one with dwarf frogs, and the other with various tropical fish such as guppies, Mollies, Dalmation Mollies, 1 betta, and Angels.

Over the last few days I have lost 5 neons, 5 Guppies, and the Betta.

The best bit is, that the guppies and the beta had no fins left before they died I was rather puzzled at this, anyway I beleived it was the frogs as I had just put them into the tank with the tropical fish.

Today I sat for half an hour and watched the fish, to find my Dalmation Mollies being really aggressive and biting other fish constantley.

So I have seperated them for the time being, does anyone know why they might be doing this?

Could this be a sign of pregnancy?

I think this explains the fish loss in the last few days, im hoping anyway.

Thanks

Mells

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

What size tank are they in/how many gallons does it hold and how many fish do you have in total in it and what types(including all the ones that have died too)? How much are you feeding your fish on average and what genders are the mollys?

 

[mells]

The tank size is 3ft, not sure how many gallons.

Total amount of fish was,

5 Neons (all now dead)
3 Baby Angels
5 African Dwaf Frogs
2 Black Mollys
3 Heads n Tails
1 Betta (dead)
2 Male Guppys
3 Female Guppies

Lost about 6 Guppies too.

Not sure what genders the mollies are, From the dalmations I have one very round one, and one squareish one, who's quite large

Thanks

Mells

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

With a dozen fish dead, this is realy odd behavior for mollys and i would see if your water stats(ammonia, nitrates and nitrites) are ok and post them to us, because if they have issues they may somhow be conected to the behavior or deaths but it is realy odd though, mollys are generally very friendly fish by nature and i have never heard of this kind of mass killing spree before with mollys ever