scooterchick
Fishaholic
Hi,
One of my silver mollies has some redness on her gills. At first I thought she'd scraped herself on something cos it looked like 2 grazes, however it seems to be getting worse, not better, and the other gll is looking a little red too. It's on the outside of the gill, not underneath if you see what I mean. She's maybe a bit quieter than usual but normal otherwise.
Tanks stats are all good, amonia 0, nitrite 0, and nitrate was 10ppm before the last water change which was Sat. 50% changes every 2 weeks, tank mates are 5 other mollies and 2 guppies and it's a 17 gallon tank.
It's basically a brackish tank so sea salt is added every water change, water conditioner and for the past 3 days since I noticed the redness I've been dosing with some melafix.
Any ideas? I though maybe gill flukes but I thought that affected the underneath of the gill, so now I'm maybe thinking (and hoping not) an ulcer, although it wold be strange on both sides.
Oh, just a thought. I was maturing a sponge filter in the tank for a fry tank I've set up, then one of the filters broke in my big big tank and I had to take some media from the molly tank, so 2 out of the 3 sponges were removed in a short space of time (not planned), I didn't test the water and stats are now fine, do you think that could have caused a mini cycle?
One of my silver mollies has some redness on her gills. At first I thought she'd scraped herself on something cos it looked like 2 grazes, however it seems to be getting worse, not better, and the other gll is looking a little red too. It's on the outside of the gill, not underneath if you see what I mean. She's maybe a bit quieter than usual but normal otherwise.
Tanks stats are all good, amonia 0, nitrite 0, and nitrate was 10ppm before the last water change which was Sat. 50% changes every 2 weeks, tank mates are 5 other mollies and 2 guppies and it's a 17 gallon tank.
It's basically a brackish tank so sea salt is added every water change, water conditioner and for the past 3 days since I noticed the redness I've been dosing with some melafix.
Any ideas? I though maybe gill flukes but I thought that affected the underneath of the gill, so now I'm maybe thinking (and hoping not) an ulcer, although it wold be strange on both sides.
Oh, just a thought. I was maturing a sponge filter in the tank for a fry tank I've set up, then one of the filters broke in my big big tank and I had to take some media from the molly tank, so 2 out of the 3 sponges were removed in a short space of time (not planned), I didn't test the water and stats are now fine, do you think that could have caused a mini cycle?