Something odd...

[afireinside]

My Molly has been acting weird, but only during the night. When he is sleeping, he acts as if he's having a nightmare, sorta shaking it off as it never happened. But in the day time, he's fine. Is there something wrong?

 

[afireinside]

Well, I fixed it. I remembered that Mollies are normally Vegitarians. I was adding more blood worms than vegis in the diet. He's fine now.

 

[WILDER]

Do you mean he was shaking, temp would be good, plus water stats in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate,and ph, any sign of flicking or rubbing on objecs, any red inflamed gills, and laboured breathing.

 

[afireinside]

Well, he's fine now. No, he was not shaking, more like twitching. Swimming in place. I'ts stopped though... I stopped feeding him bloodworms, maybe he just dosen't like those.

 

[WILDER]

Just keep an eye out for parasites with the twitching.

 

[afireinside]

Ok. I also did a water change. It seemed to help.

 

[Ethos]

I was going to ask if anything seemed to bother him during the night, when the lights are out. I thought that at night something might attact him...hmhmhm...

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I would still test for the standard stats in your water quality, its best just to know these things even if your molly is fine now. A good balance of meat and veg based foods is important for mollys, the best way i find to give the veg they need is to either feed them blanched cucumber once or twice a week or small algae wafers- its best to try both of these as mollys can be picky eaters somtimes and prefer different things .
I also bought a female molly recently that had the shakes and i feed her some thawed out frozen krill and bloodworms and algae wafers and added a watered down dose of melafix to the tank and she was fine the next day, making sure your fish get enough sleep/rest at night the tank isn't too hot for them is also important as mollys prefer the slightly cooler tropical temps, 23/25 degrees is ideal for them .