The April FOTM Contest Poll is open!
🏆 Click to vote! 🏆
How long until she pops, in your opinion?
How long until she pops, in your opinion?
its difficult to say from that pic, but id say quite a while yet,its hard to see that she is even pregnant
from the top/sides she looks kinda square
I hope it's not ich becuase of the fry etc, if it developes further i'll use whitespot treatment, do you have any idea what ich/the med would do to fry?Most likely whitespot, but no brackish water may be a contributing factor. Mollies seem to be more prone to stress in fresh water (especially if it's not hard alkaline water), so if water quality dips even a trace, if they're injured or bullied, they're often one of the first to show it. Stress weakens fish, and makes them more susceptible to diseases that they would usually shrug off, like whitespot. In my experience, mollies always seem to show stress by promptly getting ich.
If the fish is alone, or you can isolate it, making the tank brackish, even temporarily, may help treat it. There's a few threads in the brackish section that say treating ich in brackish tanks is often just a matter of raising or lowering the salinity a couple notches.
Hopefully you've reviewed your information on ammonia toxicity since your posts the other day and will take even a trace reading seriously.
i have no male molly, think they'll make themselves pregnant from stored sperm?