This pimple has been getting bigger and bigger for almost 5 months. What is it? Also notice the darker orange on the baby molly below her. Most of our mollies are her size, and have been since March. They dont seem to be interested in growing. Internal parasites?
This fish appears to be having swim bladder issues...like sometimes her back fin doesnt want to really work and she can only swim with her front fints. Sometimes I find her black fin clamped a bit
Long story short, everyone was fine and dandy (aside from the growing pimple). I leave for a week, my husband misunderstands my directions and overfeeds, and I come back with a spiked nitrate tank (no detectable nitrite though, thank heavens). The mollies were clamping their fins and generally not happy, but all my other species seemed fine. I raised the temperature and did many water changes. Things were getting better, but the mollies still werent "right". You know how other people can look at your fish and say "hey, they look fine to me" but you've been watching them for over a year and you "know" what's normal for your fish? I'm feeling that now. Oh, and one of my smaller mollies suddenly has one eye bigger than the other (popeye?) and is lethargic...she's currently resting in the breeder net. I know these mollies are extremely inbred because they are from my neighbor who told me as much (he's pretty good with fish). His yellow and white mollies get these orange scales that look to have a different texture than the rest, and they get bigger with age. Mine are doing this too. We assumed tumors because no one else, not even the black molies, ever got it. Everyone else in my tank is the picture of health, but my mollies are really going downhill fast. I wonder if I should just euthanize the sick ones and treat the tank....treat everyone and hope the mollies make it, or what? I just dont want to risk everyone else in the tank getting sick.
Temp: 80 degrees,
Nitrate is as much as 40ppm (higher than it's ever been in my tank)
pH is at least 8.0 (weird story: my test trips say 8.0, my city says 7.0...so who knows what the pH really is...)
No ammonia, no nitrite
some salt
biowheel filter (been running for 2.5 years) with charcoal filter)
new bubble wall (36" long) for added aeration (and for platy entertainment...they LOVE playing with "ze bubbles"!)
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