About to give up on my mollies.......Please Help!

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KIM_TMA

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Well like the title says I am thinking about either destroying all of my mollies or taking them to the pet store. Reason behind the thought.........

It seems like I can't get them well. I posted earlier in a thread about them scraping, well I treated them with meds for gill flukes. That seemed to taper off then a couple of weeks later they are doing it again so I watched for any other signs and seen a few that would make me think it was a bacteria, so I treated for that. Now about 2 weeks later I have noticed some clamped fins and scraping and this morning I watched a few of them swimming and it seems like they are having difficulties swimming with their rear ends. O and something else I noticed this morning is that they seem to have a light sheen to their rear ends(tail portion), sort of velvet look, but not sure that it is velvet.

I really don't want to get rid of them or destroy them but I am running thin on trying to get them well.
Any advice, help me save my livebearers.

All my tank params:
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrates 10
ph 7.8
 
hmm, i am not sure i can help, but i can relate. I have a platie that is doin the same thing. I had ick, so cleared that up. then i lost a couple to some bacteria fungus, treated for that. he had gotten both of these, seemed to clear up and now he has got some sort of mucus on one side of his back end. i will probly remove him tonight if no one else is showing signs and see if i cant get him well on his own. I guess i could say just keep at it dont give up on them. Have you tried maybe raising the temp a bit and adding aquarium salt. the salt is good especially for mollies and they pretty much need it at all times. but if you are already using salt i am not sure why they would keep getting ill. Sorry i really couldnt be of much help. hopefully some one else will shine some light soon.
 
MelaFix + Lots of Water Changes

Also, you may just want to set up a hospital tank with no gravel, just filter, heater and lights.

If your fish keep getting sick you may just want to redo the whole tank over and clean everything with warm water.
 
Sounds like a bacterial infection.

When was your last water change and how much did you change?

What water conditioner (to remove chlorine/chloramine) do you use?

Do you use aquarium salt with your mollies?

Treating for the wrong thing will do more harm than good, so let's get you back to square one with clean water and proper dose of aquarium salt. I'd suggest you do a 50% water change, treat with Prime, and add proper dose of aquarium salt.
 
Others have given good advice here. I just want to note that if you have sick fish, its best to euthanize them instead of giving them to someone else after you have tried to get them well, as it may infect there fish as well..

Good luck!
 
gotglock said:
MelaFix + Lots of Water Changes

Also, you may just want to set up a hospital tank with no gravel, just filter, heater and lights.

If your fish keep getting sick you may just want to redo the whole tank over and clean everything with warm water.
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I agree with this. Maybe emptying the tank and cleaning it out will help.
 
Just be sure that you have adequate filtration and monitor your ammonia level. Ammonia spikes in a hospital tank are common since the bacteria are sometimes killed by meds.
 
TY powerkit for letting me know that their is someone else out there, LOL.

Done the Melafix and the pimafix until I am sick of the smell. I haven't had any luck with this stuff to actually heal more of a precautionary instead of a med.

Nolapete that is sortof what I had thought too. Water has been untreated now for about 2 1/2 weeks. I do weekly 50% wc using stresscoat to declor. and I always use either livebearers salt or the aquarium salt. I try to keep it at the highest level recommend.

Blueiz- Absolutely, I would never take them in and not tell them they weren't sick, my lfs has a qt tank.
 
I would leave them in the tank, do water changes daily or every other day, and add API Aquarium salt. If you can add an airstone or bubble bar to the the tank, do so increase gas exchange to provide more oxygen in the water.

Give it 3-4 days to allow for any meds currently in the tank to be cleared out. If there's no improvement, stop the water changes and treat with melafix and pimafix together for 7 days following the directions on the bottles.

That's what I'd do. Hope it helps.
 
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