Hi there, I'm new to the forum so first post 
, had tropical fish for roughly 3.5 months, during that time I've had 6 or 7 pregnancies and I've had to give over a hundred fish back to the fish shop and am slowly starting to remove all females from tank. Gave my tank a clean on the weekend with a 45% water change and added some general tonic. Have a bit of a snail problem but will be sorting that over Christmas by removing all the fish and boiling everything in the tank.
Anyway, on to the problem; My Molly was being pestered fairly constantly by her male offspring, they were obviously trying to mate with her and constantly pecking at her, she got quite stressed, hiding by the heater I guess trying to keep warm. I don't know how long it was going on for but I separated all the male young mollies into a creche after a few days, and then roughly a week later removed them all and gave them to my local petsathome, along with roughly 60 or 70 guppy and molly fry + 3 of my original females, leaving about 20 adult fish in my 60 litre tank and about 50 or so fry that were too small to take back to the fish shop. I then cleaned the tank/filters/gravel/plants and removed some snails and did the water change mentioned above. Like a day or two later I noticed my molly had a spot on her right side that looked like her scales had kind of melted and was an off shade of green (like snot), and she was quite poorly, swimming to and fro, being lethargic and spent a lot of her time right next to the heater, she was however still eating and has not lost her appetite throughout this whole ordeal (there's been something wrong with her for a few weeks but previously no physical symptoms). I reduced the amount of food I gave them, and put some ick cure in the water as it contained malachite and I thought it might help, I did this and she swam through it as I poured it in but I did leave the filter in as I cannot remove the carbon filter from my filter, the filter unit comes as a whole so in removing the carbon filter I would have no filter. She seemed to improve the next few days and the wound started reducing in diameter, a few days after this, she started getting agitated a bit and the wound seemed to have dark specs in it, and there was even a bit of flesh or something white hanging from it at one point. I put some general tonic in to help her fight whatever it is off, but I really don't know what it is and I don't have the money to go trying every solution the pet store has, so I was hoping if anyone could help my diagnose it to pinpoint the way to cure this and help my Molly, It's frustrating me knowing she's going through some pain constantly, I just hope it's not too much but she is very sad. I have thought about euthanising her with clove oil and vodka if gets much worse.
It has now developed in a smaller diameter, with a black area in the middle and surrounding that the scales are still a green snot colour and look a bit melted.
At the beginning her abdominal area (her tummy or colon) did go very dark, and it still is but has reduced somewhat. This initially made me think she was constipated because she was a bit bloated at first but now that's gone I don't know.
Sorry for the convoluted wall of text, I'm a bit hazy on it all and very tired at the moment.
I have included a video to help, please tell me if you have problems watching it and I'll host it elsewhere.
Many thanks for any input,
Will
Video: Molly
, had tropical fish for roughly 3.5 months, during that time I've had 6 or 7 pregnancies and I've had to give over a hundred fish back to the fish shop and am slowly starting to remove all females from tank. Gave my tank a clean on the weekend with a 45% water change and added some general tonic. Have a bit of a snail problem but will be sorting that over Christmas by removing all the fish and boiling everything in the tank.Anyway, on to the problem; My Molly was being pestered fairly constantly by her male offspring, they were obviously trying to mate with her and constantly pecking at her, she got quite stressed, hiding by the heater I guess trying to keep warm. I don't know how long it was going on for but I separated all the male young mollies into a creche after a few days, and then roughly a week later removed them all and gave them to my local petsathome, along with roughly 60 or 70 guppy and molly fry + 3 of my original females, leaving about 20 adult fish in my 60 litre tank and about 50 or so fry that were too small to take back to the fish shop. I then cleaned the tank/filters/gravel/plants and removed some snails and did the water change mentioned above. Like a day or two later I noticed my molly had a spot on her right side that looked like her scales had kind of melted and was an off shade of green (like snot), and she was quite poorly, swimming to and fro, being lethargic and spent a lot of her time right next to the heater, she was however still eating and has not lost her appetite throughout this whole ordeal (there's been something wrong with her for a few weeks but previously no physical symptoms). I reduced the amount of food I gave them, and put some ick cure in the water as it contained malachite and I thought it might help, I did this and she swam through it as I poured it in but I did leave the filter in as I cannot remove the carbon filter from my filter, the filter unit comes as a whole so in removing the carbon filter I would have no filter. She seemed to improve the next few days and the wound started reducing in diameter, a few days after this, she started getting agitated a bit and the wound seemed to have dark specs in it, and there was even a bit of flesh or something white hanging from it at one point. I put some general tonic in to help her fight whatever it is off, but I really don't know what it is and I don't have the money to go trying every solution the pet store has, so I was hoping if anyone could help my diagnose it to pinpoint the way to cure this and help my Molly, It's frustrating me knowing she's going through some pain constantly, I just hope it's not too much but she is very sad. I have thought about euthanising her with clove oil and vodka if gets much worse.
It has now developed in a smaller diameter, with a black area in the middle and surrounding that the scales are still a green snot colour and look a bit melted.
At the beginning her abdominal area (her tummy or colon) did go very dark, and it still is but has reduced somewhat. This initially made me think she was constipated because she was a bit bloated at first but now that's gone I don't know.
Sorry for the convoluted wall of text, I'm a bit hazy on it all and very tired at the moment.
I have included a video to help, please tell me if you have problems watching it and I'll host it elsewhere.
Many thanks for any input,
Will
Video: Molly
