Please help me with my mollie

[Tanya farrell]

I think my mollie might have white spots can someone clarify it for me please ?
If so can I treat her with the treatment whiles she is pregnant?
Is she has it does the other fish and well I have to do the tank ?
Thank you

 

[ChloesQuestions]

She has ich (very contagious)
I reccomend using ich-x with pregnant fish in there, don't quarantine, treat the whole tank,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyophthirius_multifiliis

 

[Tanya farrell]

But I thought fish are meant to flack and rub if they have ich ? She's swimming around in a swims .

 

[Tanya farrell]

Can I use white spot and fungus treatment to get rid of ich ? I looked ich treatment up and it just came up with white spot

 

[eaglesaquarium]

What are the other tankmates? Assuming these are also livebearers, all is well...

You have mollys... so ich treatment is fairly simple. Heat and salt.

Mollies can handle salt up to full marine levels, ich cannot. The heat increases the speed of the life cycle of the parasite, and the salt will kill the free swimmers (the only time its truly susceptible to treatment).

http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/Ich
http://www.aquahobby.com/articles/e_ich2.php

 

[NickAu]

Any chance of be better close up of that fish?

 

[Tanya farrell]

Ok thank you

 

[Tanya farrell]

Here the pic

 

[betta fish]

Can you get a pic from above the tank so we are looking down at the fish? those scales look suspiciously like they are pine coning, can't see ich although it would be difficult on a white fish, the white flecking we can see is not ich as it far too uniform in neat rows, those are her scales.

 

[NickAu]

can't see ich although it would be difficult on a white fish, the white flecking we can see is not ich as it far too uniform in neat rows, those are her scales

I agree, Never seen Ich in neat rows like that.

Please stop using medication untill we know whats wrong with the fish.

 

[Tanya farrell]

This is why I want to ask she has it on the other side to , I will take a picture now (try) she has red spots too if you can see it what are there ?

 

[Tanya farrell]

Don't know if you can see anything as she's a swimmer

 

[LyraGuppi]

I can't see any ich, just her usual colouration.

 

[Tanya farrell]

She a dolmation mollie , black and white , I don't get it , why does she have red spots and white spots all small ?

 

[LyraGuppi]

The reddish-orange spots are fairly common on dalmatian molly, it's also a part of their colouration. The white flecking is simply scale iridescence, nothing to worry about.

Both pics are not mine, just ones I found off Google images.
Here's an example of the orange spots:

And the white flecking:

If the spots are ever randomly placed and raised, and she shows signs of irritation, that could be ich.