tsukinoakari
New Member
Hello fellow fish lovers,
I filled out the questionnaire and hope that someone knows what my gold molly has. Basically there are two big white spots on the connection of body to fin tail. I looked up white spot sickness (ich) and fungus but the white spots seems to be too big for ich and not fluffy at all as fungus would indicate.
As indicated below the PH is 7.6, I know that my ph is on the higher end for neon tetras but they don't seem to be stressed out and I acclicated them well before releasing them into the water.
I hope somebody can help me clear the mistery what my gold molly has.
Unfortunatelly I don't have a quarantine tank yet but that is on my list to get today/tomorrow (snow storm here) to treat the molly and be able to proper quarantine new fish in the future.
If any more info is required I'm happy to provide whaterver I can.
I started my aquarium with all the advice/tutorials I got from this forum although I never posted anything as all the questions/answers have been already posted and I'm so thankful I got so far
but these white spots are puzzling me.
Thanks,
Lukas
Tank size: 55 Gallon
pH: 7.6
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 5-10
tank temp: 24.5 Celsius
I have the tank for around 5-6 month and did a full fishless cycle before adding any fish. It is my first freshwater aquarium. I still use the filtration that came with the tank which should be a Whisper PowerFilter 60. I plan to buy a external filter, like a Fluval to have a better filtration system.
Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior):
It's a gold molly that has two big white spots on the part where the body becomes the fin tail. It still eats and come sout when it's feeding time but after that it goes into corners and stays on the ground as the other two gold mollys are swiming around as the sick one did before. That is basically it. The gold molly doesn't swim different than before, just slower and on the ground and keeps it low key.
I've also just seen that I can see the white spots from the other side of the fish and it looks like the molly has four big white spots from the other side but they are on the other side and it shines through to the other side (at least that is what it looks like)
The molly still poops as well.
Volume and Frequency of water changes:
I do a water change of 50% every weekend and keep the nitrate under 20. I also vaccum the gravel slightly to clean the top layer.
Chemical Additives or Media in your tank:
Normal black biological filter with additional carbon filtration cartridges.
Tank inhabitants:
6 Neon Tetras
3 Gold Molly (+ 1 little one, grey one, came as blind passenger with the gold mollys and has the same fin traits so I think it's a molly)
7 Black Phantom Tetras
1 Guppy
3 Amano shrimps
4 Red Cherry shrimps
Many live plants
Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration):
I added recently, like 1.5 month ago, the 6 neon tetras, the red cherry shrimps and a couple of live plants to provide more hiding space.
I already had live plants and a wood ark in the aquarium.
ohh and one amano shrimp is pregnant (need to get another little tank to able to keep the youngs alive)
oh and there is a little algue growing but I counter attack that with less light and trust in the cleaning behaviour of the shrimps
Exposure to chemicals:
None at all
I filled out the questionnaire and hope that someone knows what my gold molly has. Basically there are two big white spots on the connection of body to fin tail. I looked up white spot sickness (ich) and fungus but the white spots seems to be too big for ich and not fluffy at all as fungus would indicate.
As indicated below the PH is 7.6, I know that my ph is on the higher end for neon tetras but they don't seem to be stressed out and I acclicated them well before releasing them into the water.
I hope somebody can help me clear the mistery what my gold molly has.
Unfortunatelly I don't have a quarantine tank yet but that is on my list to get today/tomorrow (snow storm here) to treat the molly and be able to proper quarantine new fish in the future.
If any more info is required I'm happy to provide whaterver I can.
I started my aquarium with all the advice/tutorials I got from this forum although I never posted anything as all the questions/answers have been already posted and I'm so thankful I got so far
Thanks,
Lukas
Tank size: 55 Gallon
pH: 7.6
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 5-10
tank temp: 24.5 Celsius
I have the tank for around 5-6 month and did a full fishless cycle before adding any fish. It is my first freshwater aquarium. I still use the filtration that came with the tank which should be a Whisper PowerFilter 60. I plan to buy a external filter, like a Fluval to have a better filtration system.
Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior):
It's a gold molly that has two big white spots on the part where the body becomes the fin tail. It still eats and come sout when it's feeding time but after that it goes into corners and stays on the ground as the other two gold mollys are swiming around as the sick one did before. That is basically it. The gold molly doesn't swim different than before, just slower and on the ground and keeps it low key.
I've also just seen that I can see the white spots from the other side of the fish and it looks like the molly has four big white spots from the other side but they are on the other side and it shines through to the other side (at least that is what it looks like)
The molly still poops as well.
Volume and Frequency of water changes:
I do a water change of 50% every weekend and keep the nitrate under 20. I also vaccum the gravel slightly to clean the top layer.
Chemical Additives or Media in your tank:
Normal black biological filter with additional carbon filtration cartridges.
Tank inhabitants:
6 Neon Tetras
3 Gold Molly (+ 1 little one, grey one, came as blind passenger with the gold mollys and has the same fin traits so I think it's a molly)
7 Black Phantom Tetras
1 Guppy
3 Amano shrimps
4 Red Cherry shrimps
Many live plants
Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration):
I added recently, like 1.5 month ago, the 6 neon tetras, the red cherry shrimps and a couple of live plants to provide more hiding space.
I already had live plants and a wood ark in the aquarium.
ohh and one amano shrimp is pregnant (need to get another little tank to able to keep the youngs alive)
oh and there is a little algue growing but I counter attack that with less light and trust in the cleaning behaviour of the shrimps
Exposure to chemicals:
None at all
