Odd Molly

Kairi

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I've had issues regarding this poor girl for a while now. Her fins have been nipped, her eye poked (can't tell if it's still there or not), and her lip torn. She lived in a breeding trap until I was sure she could swim again- as she just flopped around most times. For the last 4 days, she's been just fine, playing in the bubbles and being the silly girl I remember her to be. Today though, she's hiding by a plant and sitting on the bottom of a tank. I know she's not pregant- in fact, she finally is "unpregnant" for the first time since I've had her... poor little thing. She looks so thin though, and her gills look HUGE! Any idea what might be wrong? She is currently the only molly in the tank, the last one died a few days ago- and I'm not buying any more fish til the new tank is cycled. What can I do for her til then? She hates the breeding trap, but at least she seems to not hide. I'm worried something is really wrong with her, or her tank mates will take advantage of her weakness... :sad:
 
Sadly she sounds in a terrible way and i'm worried as it sounding like fish tb, and she dying if she resting on the bottom, torn fins, popeye if the are bulging out, plus being thin is pointing towards fish tb.

http://www.4qd.org/Aqua/disease/tb.html

I would get her out of the tank immediaely if you have fish in there.
 
where would I put her? I've only got two working tanks. Plus, from what I've read... it doesn't really sound like her. We know w/o a doubt that she's been beat up on by some of her tank mates....
 
To be honest she not going to make it to much going off, and if she laying on the bottom anyway she on her way, sorry, do you have any clove oil.

Not the writer of this information below.

Piscine Tuberculosis



Symptoms:

Because of the symptoms associated with this disease, it is often referred to as Wasting Disease. An infected fish may show a loss of appetite, emaciation (sunken belly), fading of colors, eroding fins, erratic swimming, scale loss or protrusion, "pop-eye" or eye loss, skin inflammation, ulcerous skin wounds or open lesions, gill deformities, spinal curvature, and Dropsy.

Symptoms may occur singly or in various combinations. Symptoms may also vary from species to species and from one individual fish to another. Not all symptoms need be present. Healthy fish may carry the illness for some time without being affected, and then become ill when stress or poor water conditions lower their resistance. The disease may run a lingering course, killing the fish slowly over time, or strike in epidemic proportions quickly wiping out an entire aquarium population.

Diagnoses of Piscine Tuberculosis is difficult, as all of the diseases symptoms may appear in other illnesses. Piscine TB can only be verified upon autopsy.



Cause:

Mycobacterium bacteria. Piscine Tuberculosis is highly infectious and can be easily transferred. Gravel can harbor this bacteria causing the entire aquarium to become infected. The disease may strike in epidemic proporations, killing an entire population of fish in record time with little to no symptoms. However, it can also remain latent for some time, progressing slowly, silently causing internal organ damage to the fish.

This illness is not always fatal to the fish. The bacteria may become encapsulated to form small nodules and as long as good environmental conditions are maintained there is no danger. However, if the fish is weakened by unsuitable water conditions or other diseases the nodules can burst. The infection then becomes acute and can kill the infected fish as well as infect others.



Treatment:

Infected fish must be isolated quickly because the disease is highly contagious (see below). Treat with a combination of sulphafurazone (0.2mg/g fish), doxycycline (0.005 mg/g fish) and minocycline (0.005 mg/g fish) administered intramuscularly. It is also recommended to feed any sick fish isoniazid. It may take up to 2 months for fish to completely heal. Kanacyn also claims to be helpful in treating Piscine Tuberculosis.
 
hm. well, the skinny part is because we assume she's had babies... they've just been eaten. the eyes... one is normal, she's marble, so i can't tell if she's really missing one or not. her fins are ok other than the nips that are healing. she does breath weird though. *sigh* in this tank, she's my favorite fish, apart from the pleco (but i've had him the longest)
 
The reason she breathing weirdly is because her gills are swollen, and they breath funny when they are dying, does she look really thin like wasting away look, but there is still to much happening to her.
 
well- i found her dead when i got home from work. poor thing. she was a black marble molly and her body was completly white. almost creepy. :(
 
This same diesease killed every fish in my tank a few months ago. Good luck with her. Hope she makes it.
 
is it contagious? I have 5 other fish in there presently. she's already dead and out of the tank. for the last month though, she's been seperated from them- maybe they won't have it.
 
Sorry R.I.P. she didn't sound well.
 
no, she didn't :( she was my hubby's favorite. but even he said she was in a better place.

will this be contagious to my other fish *if* it was something like fish tb?
 

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