Help Me Please! I'm Not Very Good At Fish Keeping =[

[tamara]

Well i've had soo many problems, i'm ready to give up.
within the past 1-2 weeks i had about 1 million supposivly..parania or something like that.
so i took all my rocks out, boiled those to get rid of them, then they were still there
--to small to get them out with a net so i had to COMPLETLY empty my whole tank...
i cleaned it with water only, then they were all over in my filter so i got a new one of those
it was good for about a week
so i slowly put the rocks back, and 3/5 decoration thing back in
now today or yesterday i went away for the night to visit my dad (divorce) and my mom took care of my fish
like she does all the time once aweek when i go to my dad's house.
i come back (10 minutesish ago) and i find 2 of my dalmation mollies stuck with their back fin in the filter
they were dead with there bodies out side of the filter thing because they were to fat to get sucked completly up
so i got them out, put some fish water conditioner stuff in (helps with new fish&dead fish&other)
and now i find out that there are some white dot things popping out of their head/body (like zits..but on a fish and they're white.)
i have no clue what that is, or what to do. there's i'd say maz 10 of the "zits" on the fish
and it's on 1 out of the 2 dalmation mollies that are left
and 2 or 3 of the 5 guppies.
PLEASE HELP ME...
or else i just might give up.


1. Water parameters. ammonia=0 nitrIte =0 ph 7.2, 75F(but i'm supposed to raise it to 85..because of the maybe ick in my tank.)
2. A full description of the fishes symptoms.see up^^^
3. How often you do water changes and how much.once every 1-1½weeks 20-30%
4. Any chemicals and treatments you add to the water.just water conditioner to de-chlorinate the tap water
5. What tank mates are in the tank.5 guppies(3dragontail2redtail blood guppies) 2dalmation mollies 1albino cory catfish 1bristlenose pleco
6. Tank size.10 gallon (freshwater)
7. Finally Have you recently added any new fish? about a month ago 2 guppies

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

hmmm... seems like an internal parasite. Wilder may be abeal to give you more info. a pic would be most aprreciated!

 

[tamara]

I've tried to take a picture but they always turn out blurry.
sorry! someone said on another fish site that it might be ick..
but i always thought ick was more salt like no "zit" like

 

[WILDER]

The spots on them do they look like they have been sprinkled in salt.
Did you save any of the water from the tank, as when you fill the tank up with all fresh water you are altering the stats, sounds like stress.

Any string like things coming out of the spots.
Any red circling around the spots.

 

[tamara]

I know you're supposed to..
but there were LITERLY a million little bug things in my tank...
and i looked them up and they multiply by the hundreds within an hour..
so if i left one in..then i'd be screwed again..so ya
and it's not salted...
and on one of the dalmation mollies it looks like their skin is peeling off in one area

 

[WILDER]

Check the mouths and body for fluffyiness on them like cotton wool.


Or even white patches on the mouth.

 

[tamara]

THere's none of that on the guppies, but i can't tell that well on the dalmation mollies because they're mostly white with few black spots..but not that i can see.

 

[WILDER]

Its hard to say as it could be a parasite to bacterial.
Can you tell me what the worm look like.
Were the worms very small and white, stick to the glass and things, and swim in a jerky movement.

For now I would try a bacterial med.

 

[tamara]

Were the worms very small and white, stick to the glass and things, and swim in a jerky movement.

they actually weren't quite worms...they were more like very super tiny orange lady bugs with the dots and all
so pretty much roundorange/brown with black dots about 3mm big around and there were i'd say a million

 

[WILDER]

Not sure what they are then but they are not what you mentioned.
Describe the bug in tropical chit chat someone might know what bug it is.
Go with the bacterial med for now till you know what parasite you are dealing with it could be harmless then again not.

I looked that bug up a while ago and it was something to do with marine tanks.
Do a search on the bug saying what colour they are that might help.

 

[tamara]

kayy..thanks

 

[tamara]

Update: now 3 of the 4 dalmation mollies have died..it's odd though because the strongest ones died..and the on i would have thought to of died first is the one still alive...well for now.

 

[WILDER]

Need to find out what them bugs are fast, for now add a bacterial med as parasites can cause bacterial infections on top.

 

[tamara]

i got rid of the bugs already...about a week ago when i took out all the water and just filled it with normal water (not smart)
so there are now no more bugs...but maybe they got inside of the fish??
not sure if it was possible though...because they stayed in the rocks or just above the rocks and it seemed like they glided along the water

 

[WILDER]

Ok, but i still would try and find out what they were.