Molly Looking Quite Lacklustre?

hanny93

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Hi, I'm new!
Now, I have a 14 gallon tropical tank that I've just changed over.
There's 3 guppies (2 female 1 male) and 4 mollies (2 silver, 2 gold)
The filter is working fine (i think!), the heater is at 27Cish, feels warm to the touch, there are 4 live plants in there, and rocks, so plenty of hiding spaces, an airstone and a fluoro light that gets turned off every night about 10pm and turned on at 8am the next morning.
I feed them 'Hikari Tropical Micro Wafers' because the normal tropical pellets I bought on recommendation from my lfs were too big for my guppies.

However, one of my golden mollies doesn't seem to be eating and looks a lot paler and is less active than the other fish.
My other mollies are quite rounded in the belly area, but this one looks more like a male danio.
Ive just hcanged from gravel to sand, but I've made sure theres no gas pockets and will be getting some corys to mess it up a bit (or any other fish that someone might be able to recommend for me!)
If anyone can help/suggest why this is happening I'd be most grateful!
I'm rather worried about little Paul (named after Paul McCartney, we have Paul, John, Ringo and George hehe)

Thanks again and sorry for the long post!
 
Did you cycle the tank at all?


Yes it has been up and running for well over six months. The only change I have made is putting sand down in place of gravel, ready for corys and turning the heater up gradually.
 
Here are some (albeit really bad quality) pictures of said molly.
I'm just really worried about him/her because hhe/she doesn't look well at all :(

http://s1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc375/hannuh93/?action=view&current=064.jpg
http://s1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc375/hannuh93/?action=view&current=064.jpg#!oZZ2QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fs1208.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fcc375%2Fhannuh93%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3D065.jpg
 
An update, she/he now has red pinpricks in front of the gills, quite bright red aswell, he/she is losing colour quite a lot, it is now speckled white/yellow.
 

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