Molly Fish Babies? Pregnant? Breeding Care Guide
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Are you expecting Molly fish babies? Is the mother pregnant? Use a breeders net (found on the link above) to save them. Or you can just let nature take it's course and let the other fish eat them. Visit the link for more info on breeding mollies. More Info: http://www.molly-fish.com/pregnant.html
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My lyretail Molly is sinking each time it tries to swim and is staying at the bottom but looks fine other than that. Sound like a swim bladder issue? If so what could i do to help. Parameters are well. Tank has been cycled for almost a year.
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I have a mystery illness in my tank that has only affected my livebearers: Platies and Mollies. 1 or 2 will get sick, then in a couple weeks 1 or 2 more. It's been going on for a couple months and I have not added any new fish into the tank for 6 months. Symptoms are weight loss/emaciated look, sometimes with a curved spine. White patches that look neither like fungus nor ick, mainly on the tails and fins, sometimes on the body. They may have these spots for a few days and then they resolve, only to return again. Fish become less active but still eat. They may hang on like this for 2 or 3 weeks before finally succumbing. I have taken out sick ones and treated them with an antifungal, antibiotic, and even gave them food soaked in metronidazole. They get better but when reintroduced into the main tank it will slowly return. I have given this tank as thorough cleaning as I can without upsetting the biological cycle and have been putting off treating the entire tank since only the Mollies and Platies are affected. It kind of sounds like it could be fish tuberculosis, but why would my Gourami, Neons, and Cory Cats remained completely immune to it? Thank you for any insight!
Following! I've had a couple platys with something very similar but without white patches. They just seem to waste away
Interesting. As soon as I started reading I thought of M. marinum.
Livebearers are renowned for being genetically weak from inbreeding and mass farming. Perhaps the other species are healthy enough to fight it for the time being whereas the livebearers aren't?
Mycobacterium, that is what fish tuberculosis is, right? I'm really hoping it isn't that but it does fit. I guess I better be very cautious in dealing with the water right now.
That's terrifying! But why wouldn't it infect the other inhabitants? Like in my case an angel and a rubbernose pleco.
There are actually a couple of forms of water based marinium and simplex. Its a bacterial infection thats very hard to cure. And believe it or not. It can live in the water supply that we all use. Chlorine should kill most strains but there is still a possibility. Its possible that the immune of the other fish are quite well strong enough amd theyve been under no or not enough stress to cause them issues and are able to fend it off.