Molly Emeregency

[Jephex]

Ok, so first i came home today to find my hillstream loach, dead and white floating around. After cleaning him out of the tank, I noticed my molly was acting extremely lethargic, barely moving, but fins still waving every couple of seconds, gills moving. He could swim upright, but his tail fins werent really moving at all. Soon, it progressed, and after the shrimp started attacking him, thinking he was done for, i removed him from the main tank and placed him alone in a 3 gallon hospital tank. His condition has been steadily getting worse. At the moment, he is on the floor of the tank, breathing heavily, his gulls seem to puff out far for every breath, and his eyes barely move. He reacts to objects in his environment (If something is near him...ex. a plastic spoon, he using his swimming fins to move away, but he cant swim upright, and barely moves. This happened all of the sudden.

My main tank is a 10 gallon, live plants with 3 ghost shrimp, 2 corydas, and 4 molly fry. A recent problem has been a sudden burst of of algae growth, and I have been cleaning it, but it reappears with more every week.

I'm purchasing a new test kit tonight, my old one is unfortunately nowhere to be found, and I'm afraid my water conditions could have something to do with this, even though the water is clean, and 20% changed every week.

 

[Jephex]

come on!

 

[triliaeris]

Ok, so first i came home today to find my hillstream loach, dead and white floating around. After cleaning him out of the tank, I noticed my molly was acting extremely lethargic, barely moving, but fins still waving every couple of seconds, gills moving. He could swim upright, but his tail fins werent really moving at all. Soon, it progressed, and after the shrimp started attacking him, thinking he was done for, i removed him from the main tank and placed him alone in a 3 gallon hospital tank. His condition has been steadily getting worse. At the moment, he is on the floor of the tank, breathing heavily, his gulls seem to puff out far for every breath, and his eyes barely move. He reacts to objects in his environment (If something is near him...ex. a plastic spoon, he using his swimming fins to move away, but he cant swim upright, and barely moves. This happened all of the sudden.

My main tank is a 10 gallon, live plants with 3 ghost shrimp, 2 corydas, and 4 molly fry. A recent problem has been a sudden burst of of algae growth, and I have been cleaning it, but it reappears with more every week.

I'm purchasing a new test kit tonight, my old one is unfortunately nowhere to be found, and I'm afraid my water conditions could have something to do with this, even though the water is clean, and 20% changed every week.

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I don't know if it's too late. We had our mollies acting this way and freaked out. My fiance did some research and they actually needed some salt added to the tank. Weird, but it worked. He added some sea salt and within hours they were all back to normal and happy and eating again.

I don't know if that will help, but I thought I'd try.

 

[WILDER]

Need to no water stats in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate,amd ph, the symtoms you are describing are due to poor water quality or parasites, any flicking and rubbing against objects, check the gills to see if they are red and inflamed.

 

[Clairel]

You can buy a full master kit from Pets at home for 16.99, i bought mine from my local lfs for 24.99, i was ripped off

Claire xx

 

[dwarfgourami]

Triliaeris, he's got catfish in there, you can't keep those in salt. Besides, a diagnosis is needed.

Ok, so first i came home today to find my hillstream loach, dead and white floating around.  After cleaning him out of the tank, I noticed my molly was acting extremely lethargic, barely moving, but fins still waving every couple of seconds, gills moving.  He could swim upright, but his tail fins werent really moving at all.  Soon, it progressed, and after the shrimp started attacking him, thinking he was done for, i removed him from the main tank and placed him alone in a 3 gallon hospital tank.  His condition has been steadily getting worse.  At the moment, he is on the floor of the tank, breathing heavily, his gulls seem to puff out far for every breath, and his eyes barely move.  He reacts to objects in his environment (If something is near him...ex. a plastic spoon, he using his swimming fins to move away, but he cant swim upright, and barely moves.  This happened all of the sudden. 

My main tank is a 10 gallon, live plants with 3 ghost shrimp, 2 corydas, and 4 molly fry.  A recent problem has been a sudden burst of of algae growth, and I have been cleaning it, but it reappears with more every week.

I'm purchasing a new test kit tonight, my old one is unfortunately nowhere to be found, and I'm afraid my water conditions could have something to do with this, even though the water is clean, and 20% changed every week.

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I don't know if it's too late. We had our mollies acting this way and freaked out. My fiance did some research and they actually needed some salt added to the tank. Weird, but it worked. He added some sea salt and within hours they were all back to normal and happy and eating again.

I don't know if that will help, but I thought I'd try.

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[Gourami Girl]

I think i'm right in saying that the molly is in a hospital tank now, so it's not in with the catfish.

I agree with what someone else said Mollies do like hard, alkaline water, so if you think the water could do with being freshened up a bit, i would take a third out and replace with new declorinated water, adding a teaspoon of sea salt for every gallon in the tank.

 

[dwarfgourami]

Sorry I missed that about the hospital tank. No harm in adding salt to that of course.