Wounded Balloon Body Mollie

[Lex Life]

hey guys..i'm new to this site..and i need some help..i have a 10 gal. tank with 1 pleco, 4 danios, 2 red eye tetras, 1 rainbow shark, and i recently addes 2 white balloon body mollies about a week ago..i just looked at my fish tank this morning to feed them and noticed that one of the mollies is wounded..it has a chunk missing on it's bottom half..i'm pretty sure the shark did it but it ususally stays on the bottom while the mollies are always at the top...does anyone know if the mollie will be able to heal??...so far it's swimming fine (not upside down or anything)..any info will be great..thanks!

oh yeah..this is the first time i've had an injury in my fish tank..i've had the shark for about 7 months now..and it has not bothered any of the other fish.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

to the forum. introduce yourself in the newbie section.

You should really have a quarantine tank for times like this. The only thing I can tell you is to keep the water condition good and add anti-fungal meds.

A 10 gallon tank can't house all those fish.

Danios need lots of room to swim so they can move around, otherwise they die of asphyxiation.
What type of plecostomus do you have, because if it's a common plec or one of many other types, it will gte too big for your tank. It'll need algae tablets and algae to survive.
Tetras and danios like to school, so you should ahve lots of them in a bigger tank.

I'm sorry for all this bad news and for no being able to help you. HTH

 

[Lex Life]

thanks for the help temp..i'm planning to get a new tank next weekend..so hopefully the mollie will be able to heal being seperated from the others.