My molly lost his balance!!!! Dying?

[hadjici2]

I found one of my malle mollies sitting on the bottom of my planted aquarium....I have another 3 mollies and they are doing fine.....I emediatelly took him out of the tank into a jar with the tanks water and tried to feed him....he was trying to get to the food but was moving like he was drunk....I didn't add anything to the tank water or made any changes the last days!!!! What would be the problem?

He is trying to feed but sometimes he even turns upside down!!!!

 

[red-devil0602]

not sure but may be swim bladder problem will get you some info

 

[red-devil0602]

Swimbladder: This is a disease that effects the fishes swim bladder.

Symptoms: Fish swim side-ways or rest on bottom and can't go to surface.

Treatment: Raise the temperature, add appropriate medication for swim bladder. Note this is a disease that is rarely curable.


don't know if it is this lets see what some other members say

 

[hadjici2]

not sure but may be swim bladder problem will get you some info

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I thought of that but it seems that it wouldn't be the case since I saw some feaces from that fish.....he looks very very skinny! He is a male and he is smaller than another male in my tank....He is not breathing fast....he is just resting! I fed him another flake and he ate it ...... he ate 2 flakes .....

 

[hadjici2]

It seems that he is standing on his tail.....it mostly looks like that his tail is heavy....

 

[GSD]

it sounds like swimbladder.Feed him some shelled peas that might help.Or some daphnia.

 

[hadjici2]

it sounds like swimbladder.Feed him some shelled peas that might help.Or some daphnia.

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Do I have to boil the shelled peas?

What about if a feed live food for roughage?

Is daphnia a live food as well?

If I can't find daphnia are blood worms ok?

 

[hadjici2]

Long white feaces has appeared.....any suggestions?

 

[redtailblackshark]

Long white feaces has appeared.....any suggestions?

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I don't know much about it, but it looks like ich, or swim bladder disease. I would raise the temperature to about 80, and then give some anti-ick medicine.

 

[tttnjfttt]

Do I have to boil the shelled peas?

What about if a feed live food for roughage?

Is daphnia a live food as well?

If I can't find daphnia are blood worms ok?

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Usually what I do when I'm cooking one pea (which is more than enough for two or three fish), is I just hold it under HOT water until it is soft. Then I pop it out of the shell, and small pieces for my fishies. They all LOVE peas.

I don't know much about daphnia as I haven't used it, but bloodworms will NOT help. They are very rich and fatty, and right now, you are looking for roufage.

The white stringy poop can be either a sign of internal parasites or a bacterial infection. It is definately not ich as the previous poster said. First of all, definately try feedingthe peas, as they can help to clean out everything. From there, it is a toss up if it is bacterial or parasitic. I'm guessing bacterial because of the swim bladder problems, but the bad news is that is harder to treat.

Good luck!