We just recently lost a female molly due to who knows what. No other issues in the tank, she just never grew then started acting completely strange and died.
So we bought a Dalmatian lyre tail for our very large and "needy" black molly so he could have 3 females again. Mind you, he and the regular Dalmatian female were the first in the tank when we started out 60 gallon on black Friday.
Now the regular heavily pregnant silver female we call Blanca (who was added a month after when we realized Cookies (the male) was a male) has been chasing and biting Cookies since we got our lyre tail! He has little lesions on him into his slime coat and is hiding more than usual but comes out when I come to the tank.
If I didn't see her biting him I'd just treat with some pimafix but it is obviously from her.
Tank parameters are good. Just did a 40% water change after treating some fin rot in my school of 6 neon tetras.
We had a lot of algae as out pleco is getting too big for the small spaces, so we got a couple Asian algae eaters.
I have been feeding frozen brine shrimp thawed then put half a cube in the tank, and then with a little bit of omega 3 colour flakes or algea disks (because mollys eat everything) when I feed twice a day and the food is gone within 2-3 minutes. Sometimes I feed just flake depending on my day
The only thing that changed in the tank was adding the female lyre tail.
Help! Cookies is super social and I don't want to loose him
So we bought a Dalmatian lyre tail for our very large and "needy" black molly so he could have 3 females again. Mind you, he and the regular Dalmatian female were the first in the tank when we started out 60 gallon on black Friday.
Now the regular heavily pregnant silver female we call Blanca (who was added a month after when we realized Cookies (the male) was a male) has been chasing and biting Cookies since we got our lyre tail! He has little lesions on him into his slime coat and is hiding more than usual but comes out when I come to the tank.
If I didn't see her biting him I'd just treat with some pimafix but it is obviously from her.
Tank parameters are good. Just did a 40% water change after treating some fin rot in my school of 6 neon tetras.
We had a lot of algae as out pleco is getting too big for the small spaces, so we got a couple Asian algae eaters.
I have been feeding frozen brine shrimp thawed then put half a cube in the tank, and then with a little bit of omega 3 colour flakes or algea disks (because mollys eat everything) when I feed twice a day and the food is gone within 2-3 minutes. Sometimes I feed just flake depending on my day
The only thing that changed in the tank was adding the female lyre tail.
Help! Cookies is super social and I don't want to loose him