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CadillacJ

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All  water levels are normal in tank, 95 gallon freshwater community tank, 5 Tiger Barbs, 1 silver striped Angel, 1 pleco, 2 kuhli loach, 1 BGK, 2 Molly's. Brought home a black Molly last night, looked great at LPS, woke up this morning, looks like the neW Molly has ich spots. I immediately took him out of the tank, are other fish still in danger of getting Ich? I'd rather not stress them with a treatment if I don't have too. 
 
 
Do an immediate water change. Do about 25 today and 25 in another two. Keep doing water change for a week or two. Doing 25 every 3 days, if your fish get too stressed slow down the pace. There is a chance they might not get it, that happened to me once, with a molly as well. If anything shows up on fish take it out and keep treating the tank. If you can, treat the individual fish, it may or may not survive.
 
bluesword23516 said:
Do an immediate water change. Do about 25 today and 25 in another two. Keep doing water change for a week or two. Doing 25 every 3 days, if your fish get too stressed slow down the pace. There is a chance they might not get it, that happened to me once, with a molly as well. If anything shows up on fish take it out and keep treating the tank. If you can, treat the individual fish, it may or may not survive.
Thank you , will do right away, the Molly is in a small goldfish bowl for now, so I will treat him individually I keep checking the others and so far nothing, hopefully I caught it soon enough.
 
So the Molly's have been in a separate tank for two days, the white spots are gone, I read that these fish do better in brackish water and it could possibly be a fungus from the freshwater tank they were in, has anyone else had experience with this? 
 
I would love to add them to my freshwater tank but not if it's gonna make them or my other fish sick,
 
Please help

CadillacJ said:
 
Do an immediate water change. Do about 25 today and 25 in another two. Keep doing water change for a week or two. Doing 25 every 3 days, if your fish get too stressed slow down the pace. There is a chance they might not get it, that happened to me once, with a molly as well. If anything shows up on fish take it out and keep treating the tank. If you can, treat the individual fish, it may or may not survive.
Thank you , will do right away, the Molly is in a small goldfish bowl for now, so I will treat him individually I keep checking the others and so far nothing, hopefully I caught it soon enough.
 
No spots on any of my other fish either so I think whatever it was I caught it in time
 
Keep changing water because it can still pop up.  And yes they do better in somewhat brackish water.  So if you get some aquarium salt and put it in the tank the other fish could be ok. Look up if they can have any salt in the aquarium with them. I'm not entirely sure, the only fish I have owned that you currently have are the mollies.  
 
Many people I know prefer to house the mollies in brackish for their health as well, though they can acclimate to the freshwater. 
 
Sadly the black mollie did not make it, but the black and white one, (i believe its called a dalmatian mollie) looks great and is getting bigger she will end up back in the tank soon hopefully.  i have continued treating the community tank and i still have no signs on any other fish, hopefully they will be ok.
 
I attempted to upload some new pics yesterday but they are too large and have to be edited. Will post them as soon as possible.  
 
Thank You all for the advice!
 

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