I had a black molly that had stringy white feces. I removed him and put him into a 1 gallon tank. Since then I have been treating him for constipation. He has been in a tank with fairly heavily emsom salted water. I did not feed him for 3 days and then fed him only peas for 3 days. Since then he has been doing better. He is swimming and back to eating flake food. I really want to add him back to my tank as there is hardly any room for him to swim in the one gallon. I have one worry though. On his side he has a couple scales that are a silvery grayish color. I am afraid that there maybe some kind of fugus or something. I feel bad keeping him in the little tank but don't want to risk my other fish. Does any one have any advise? I will try and add pictures.
Life after the Quarantine tank...
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I suggest a larger Q-tank. When I QT an animal it is for 30 days. Stringy white feces may be more than mere constipation. It could be internal parasites, which are contagious and need more than constipation treatments to be killed off. Hard to say on the scales and I don't want to jump the gun and say what it could be without seeing some photos first.
Sick Molly Pics
Use this link and go to the sick fish album.
I do not know if these pictures will help any. They lost so much detail!
The picture i editted looks alot like what it looks at like in real life.
(it might take up to a half hour for my album to update so give it a little bit)
Use this link and go to the sick fish album.
I do not know if these pictures will help any. They lost so much detail!
The picture i editted looks alot like what it looks at like in real life.
(it might take up to a half hour for my album to update so give it a little bit)
I do not have the money to buy a bigger qt tank (I have 78 cents to my name!). Any other suggestions. ps. I know the tank is rather cheap its self, but it costs so much money to get it up and running plus it would need to cycle.
The stringy white feces often associated with internal bugs are somtimes eggs. Have you ever seen your fish suck something, even fecal matter into its mouth before spitting it out? Sometimes, they don;t spit it out, egg hatches, boom, another infested fish.kamla said:
Okay, the pictures are pretty blurry, so it is hard to say what it is for sure. One thing I can tell you is that your him is a her.
No i doesn't unfortunatly, It's a kodak CX7525, 5.0 megapixels. The different picture modes are:
Auto
Portrait
Sport
Night
Landscape
Close up
I used the close up and the sport for the pictures i took.
Auto
Portrait
Sport
Night
Landscape
Close up
I used the close up and the sport for the pictures i took.