Molly Developing New Black Spots - Pictures Included

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Hello everyone,

I have had a yellow/golden male molly for about 4-6 months now. In the last few weeks he has been developing black spots on his tail and side fins. They don't look like a disease or anything but I wanted your opinions. I did start feeded my molly better food with "cromacolor" that is supposed to bring out the colour more. I don't know if thise could be doing it or not.

Any thoughts? My water quality is perfect with Ammonia=0, Nitrite=0, Nitrate=<10.

I have had a couple unexplained deaths in my fish tank in the last 3 weeks. No real signs or symptons, just a dead molly.

Here are some pictures of the molly I'm concerned about.


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Thanks in advance for any help
 
hard to tell from the pictures, but to me it just looks like black pigmentation. I'm not positive, but I believe that the gold varities of molly are hybred from the black variant of molly. If that's true, you can get black pigmentation at any time in a hybred. The gene can still be there. Especailly if the fish is inbreed alot.



Abraham
 
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