HELP!!!! PLEASE!! MY YELLOWISH BALLON MOLLIE I

[magnamon00]

please help!! i have no idea what to do, i just discovered it right now, i checked yesterday when i fed them and they didn't have anything but they do now.

Amonia level 0 nitrite 0 ph 7.6 and i recently added new black neon tetras

 

[AquaNut]

What did you discover?

 

[magnamon00]

im pretty sure its ich. since it has white spots , but it might be dropsy too! it looks sorta bloated pleae help

 

[AquaNut]

Do you have salt in your water? What size is your tank? How many other fish are in it? What kinds of fish are they? Do any of them have white spots, too?

If you have some aquarium salt, I'd increase the amount you have in your water. I'm assuming you don't have any ich medicine, but I'd suggest you go to the lfs asap and get some. What you should get depends on what kind of fish you have and what's available where you live.

 

[magnamon00]

i have salt and its a 29 gallon tank there are about 10 other fishes none of them have white spots.

 

[AquaNut]

Do you have a quarantine/hospital tank that you can put the sick molly in? How does the molly look today? Are there more white spots? Does she look like somebody took a salt shaker and sprinkled her with white grains of salt?

 

[magnamon00]

yes i have a quaratine tank and i already put him in it. HE looks a little worse today with a little more white spots. and hes not eating much.

 

[loachylover]

If it is Ich quarintine the fish and treat it with anti ich(many diffrent brands you can get from your local LFS i use anti white spot plus by interpet) and treat the tank with the other fish in it as well because even though no other fish show any signs of ich, it could be in the water and only a matter of time until it latches on to your other fish

 

[magnamon00]

im about to go buy the anti ich medicine for my mollies , what else do you reconmend i should get while im at it.

 

[AquaNut]

I agree that you should treat the quarantined molly with some sort of ich medication. However, if no other fish show any white spots in the next several days, I would not treat your main tank. Have the meds on hand, so if any fish in your main tank show white spots, you can medicate at first notice. Ich is present in most aquaria (unless you use a UV sterilizer etc), but only attaches itself to fish which are somehow weakened. It's not worth destroying your nitrifying bacteria 'just in case'.

 

[magnamon00]

ok i will

 

[pondfreak4365]

Raising the water temp to 80-85 degrees helps with ick also.

 

[loachylover]

Sorry AquaNut didn't know that anti white spot medicine killed of the nitrifying bacteria

hey learned something new


sorryy magnamon00 is i misled u

 

[AquaNut]

Sorry AquaNut didn't know that anti white spot medicine killed of the nitrifying bacteria

hey learned something new


sorryy magnamon00 is i misled u

No need to be sorry at all! I'm sure that lots of people would agree with you and treat the whole tank. I'm just not one of them, so I offered a differing opinion and my reason for having it.

 

[Alien Anna]

Sorry AquaNut didn't know that anti white spot medicine killed of the nitrifying bacteria

hey learned something new


sorryy magnamon00 is i misled u

It doesn't always - I haven't found any problems at all using Protazin ich treatment. But methylene blue is notorious for doing do.