Mollie

[leah30]

Hi just wanting some advice please one of my mollies is swimming weird she is head first towards bottom of tank with her body straight up not had tank long since beginning of august wondered if any of you know what i can do.

thanks leah

 

[WILDER]

Size of tank in gallons or litres.
How many fish and which type.
Water stats in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate,and ph.
Sounds like she headstanding, does she look bloated.
What do you feed the fish?.
And can she maintain her balance in the water, does she flip upside down.

Headstanding, laying flat
Water quality problems, drug side effects, swimbladder infection, intestinal obstruction, late stage of infectious diseases

 

[leah30]

Hi my tank is a juwel vision 180, it has 5 guppys 4 mollies, 15 neon tetras, 6 columbian red tail tetra, 7 other tetras not sure of name but they have like a tiger stripe pattern and 4 angels. ph reading is 7 nitrite and nitrate also ammonia, fine did a water change this morning. i feed them on the flake, sera granulate menu and also frozen live food for a treat. she has only been doing this today went down an hour ago and she was looking for food so fed them and turned the light out just been back down to have a look and she is still headfirst at bottom of tank it looks like she is having problems trying to flip back up right. i have not been putting any medicine in tank lately although i did a few weeks ago when one of the fish was flicking itself off the slate but that seems fine now. i also put in good bacteria after each water change and tap safe.

thanks leah

Size of tank in gallons or litres.
How many fish and which type.
Water stats in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate,and ph.
Sounds like she headstanding, does she look bloated.
What do you feed the fish?.
And can she maintain her balance in the water, does she flip upside down.

Headstanding, laying flat
Water quality problems, drug side effects, swimbladder infection, intestinal obstruction, late stage of infectious diseases

 

[WILDER]

What frozen foods are you feeding.
Not good when they headstand at all they don't usually make it.
Try some frozen peas.
Cook in boiling water for a few minutes, let cool down, pop out of shell, mush between fingers and add to the tank.

http/www.fishtanksandponds.info/care-mai...swimbladder.htm

 

[leah30]

hi the frozen food is different kinds does not really say on pack but it does have red worm things in
What frozen foods are you feeding. i dont have any frozen peas in and shops are shut.

thanks leah

 

[WILDER]

Thats fine i use them packs with different frozen foods in them.
Get the daphnia out though in find it hard to tell between the brimestrimp, but i think the daphnia is paler in colour it's a light brown colour in the pack.

 

[leah30]

[is that the beige coloured stuff, they should say what they are on the pack grrr. do you think i will lose the mollie.

thanks again leah

 

[WILDER]

To be honest yes, had livebearers do that and they always die.
Daphnia is good for digesting a fish food.
Mollies do better if brackish water, but you have fish in the tank that won't tolerate the salt.

 

[leah30]

you would think that the fish shop would tell u this i told em what fish i had when i went to buy more after breaking in the tank so to speak and they said yes they will be fine in same water etc, if this mollie dies this will be the second one i have lost also lost a neon to what i think was swim bladder that was upside down i look after the tank well doing the water changes every week since i have had it and check the ph level almost daily as the ph level is lo in darlington. Is there anything that can be done to prevent this swim bladder problem. sorry for being a pain.

thanks for all your help, leah

 

[WILDER]

Your'e not being a pain at all that what the forum for.
They need a good varied diet as to many dried foods lead to constipation and swim bladder problems.
They need a variety of frozen foods and veg in there diet.
Lood under feeding, veg is on the list as well.
http/www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/health/viruses.shtml

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=137887

 

[leah30]

so is there anything else i can give them apart from the flake and sera granulate menu that will keep them healthier and that will help there digestive sytems better.

cheers your a star

 

[WILDER]

Frozen foods like in that pack bloodworm,brimestrimp, daphnia, black worms, and there white worms in them as well.
Veg peas are the best, broc, lettuce, cucumba, sproats, spinach, anything green really.
But you have to boil or soak them in boiling water depends on which you are giving them

http/www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/feed...egetables.shtml

 

[leah30]

well i think i need to get in some frozen peas for them, how often would you give them the peas.

thanks leah

 

[WILDER]

Twice a week the peas as it a laxative to a fish it keep them going to the toilet.