Help!! Black Mollie Fish Sick??
i think my black mollie fish may be sick.
we have had him for in the order of three months now. he is in a five gallon tank next to a tiger barb and two glofish..who do fine with their small groups because the glass is highly reflective and consider that there are doubles of themselves.
we feed him tropical fish flakes and he snacks on algae in the container.
we do a 25% water change every 2-4 weeks and a complete verbs of the tank every four weeks.
i think he may have a small amount of fin rot.. the top circumference of his dorsal fin is thin and white at the top and slightly frayed. his poop is long, white, and stringy and sometimes trails for a minute or two. i have heard that this is sometimes mundane but also that it can sometimes mean that he has bacteria or worms.
he is still drinking although not quite as much as when we first got him.
please help?! is he sick? how should i treat him whether he is??
Answers: deffinatly put some stress coat if you think he has fin rot!
turn up the temperatue contained by ur tank and add some aquarium salt!
hope this help!
He is stressed, and may be sick. He is VERY stressed out because he is kept with a tiger barb! Tiger barbs love nipping fins, particularly of smaller fish like mollies, and when they are kept by themselves with no other barbs (WHICH YOU CANNOT DO BECAUSE THEY ARE SCHOOLING FISH) they become markedly stressed and ferocious towards other fish. Also, your glofish MUST be kept in groups of 4 or 5, even if the glass is reflective. Lastly, the cistern is WAY too small. You can't have mollies, danios, or barbs in 5 g tank. So your tank should be changed to something like this:
10 gallon tank
MUST HAVE HEATER (all the fish you mentioned are tropical)
MUST HAVE AN AERATOR
MUST HAVE A FILTER (unless you want your fish to die or carry stressed, get a disease, and then die)
NO TIGER BARBS
1 black molly
5 glofish
and since you will have a short time bit of extra room you can get a kuhli loach or a dwarf gourami or something.
To treat your fish right now:
incline the temp to 82 degrees, add aquarium salt, and attach fin rot/disease medication daily and do a 25% water change day by day for the next week.
