Help ID illness - black molly

No change as of this morning. I fed her a little bit of spirulina flakes soaked in that Seachem Nourish product and some garlic. She scarfed it right up. Seems perfectly happy, but the spot is still there.

I'll keep the iodine thing in mind. The PraziPro says not to do anything for 3 days after administering. It says not to use in conjunction with other meds, etc. So since I just dosed that last night, I think I will give her a couple of days and if I do not see any improvement, I'll do a w/c and try iodine. I don't have any at home at the moment, but will see about picking some up.

There are different strengths out there though, so I will read that article and see if it says what strength to use. Don't want to cause more problems by using something too strong or whatever on it.

Thanks for the input guys. Hopefully she'll be OK. She is acting fine still so I'm hopeful.
 
Still the same tonight. Still acting normally, eating normally, but still with that spot on her side. I guess maybe the meds will take a couple of days? How quickly should I see improvement if this is the appropriate med?
 
She still looks the same this afternoon too. I guess we'll pick the iodine up and try that tonight or tomorrow since it's been a few days since we did the Prazi Pro with no improvement. I may do a W/C and do another dose of the Prazi Pro along with the iodine treatment and see how she does with that.
 
It took while for me to recollect this symtoms and med for it.
Any improments on it s own?

If you have Ampicillin, I would do so in Q/T.
Salt and Ampicillin should work provided it isnt too late.
Since it doesnt appeared to have clamped fin, I would hold off any meds for ectoparasite, such as Jung PC.
Personally, I DO NOT prefer Jungle products.
 
I do not know what Ampicillin is, but will see if I can hunt some down. I did a 50% w/c this evening and re-dosed with the Prazi Pro, as well as the aquarium salt to replace approximately the amount removed in the w/c. She does not look better, but does not look worse. Or at least, I cannot really see any change. She's still acting about the same. Still seems to be eating OK, and otherwise appears to be healthy. The stats in her water are still perfect (pre-water change they were 0/0/<5). PH was lower than I thought - I'm thinking maybe the water at this new house is not quite as high in PH as the last house I lived in. I was so used to it testing high on a constant basis, but I just tested it last night to see what it was doing, and it's about 6.8. That was the 75 gal tank that I tested. I'm not positive if the others will test differently or not but will be testing them just to see.

I'll see about getting another picture or two of her to see if there is any visible change that way.

If it means anything, I stopped by the LFS tonight to pick up my next group for this tank, and the rest of their mollies are showing the same symptoms that this molly is showing. The diamond tetras that were in the same tank with those mollies look perfectly healthy and unaffected.

Are there diseases that mollies are just more prone to?
 
If memory serves, yes. Not just mollyies but livebearers.

It is crucial to have right info on water when determining course of action. pH of 7.8 and 6.8 is quite a difference. Sometimes fish can heal itself by correcting water condition gradually.

Although mollies can tolerate 6.8, they do prefer alakline water.
Ampicillin does work better in hard/alkaline water than acidic water.

I do not know the rest of the tankmates so I can not recommend any as far as pH adjustment is concerned but can you isolate the molly in q/t?

What you saw at lfs pretty much tells you that not all dprcirs/fish will react same as their general health can be determined by environment provided by keeper. Some which prefer given condition will do well but on the other hand, that same condition can be considered extreme condition for others.

Before you med in Q/T, can you perform actual pH, NH3, NO2 and post?
 
One thing you can do if you can keep the Molly in a separate tank is to use marine salt to increase the salinity to near seawater levels. The Molly can certainly more than tolerate this and any FW external infections will be toast.
 
SubRosa said:
One thing you can do if you can keep the Molly in a separate tank is to use marine salt to increase the salinity to near seawater levels. The Molly can certainly more than tolerate this and any FW external infections will be toast.
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Very bad idea in this case even in q/t. Marine salt has heavy mineral contents which can even further stress/weaken the fish with damaged/infected skin. Besides marine salt will def increase pH and depending on q'ty of salt, it can be detrimental at times for some fish.
Even when using marine salt on healthy mollies, I would do so gradually although some survived improper acclimation (no acclimation).

I have used mollies to cycle s/w tank and to obtain their frys/juvies living in s/w (as foods) to keep certain s/w fish alive.
 
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