Just bought my first fish!
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I think the tail is ok, but I would think a second opinion would be good.
we have all been there though
I bought my 10g and got my fish a week after starting the filter and heater 
I bought the red dwarf gourami I still have, a golden algae eater and 2 guppies. The algae eater died a day after getting him and the guppies died too a couple days later I was upset
simply do 30-50% water changes daily, I would do 30% and then do a 50% twice a week, this means they aren't as stressed out.
lovely guppies and keep us updated! also the molly will outgrow the tank reaching aprox 5inch I think
we have all been there though
I bought my 10g and got my fish a week after starting the filter and heater I bought the red dwarf gourami I still have, a golden algae eater and 2 guppies. The algae eater died a day after getting him and the guppies died too a couple days later I was upsetsimply do 30-50% water changes daily, I would do 30% and then do a 50% twice a week, this means they aren't as stressed out.
lovely guppies and keep us updated! also the molly will outgrow the tank
reaching aprox 5inch I think
Guppy's are somewhat know for being nippy fish, so it is not overly surprising. The tail looks fine right now, just keep an eye on it. If it startes to get red on the ends where it was nipped, then you may need to treat it but otherwise I would not worry too much. It's pretty common to see a litle nipping here and there, as long as it is just a little.
However, as I mentioned before, getting some ornaments in the tank will help to stop that from happening. Fish in community tanks need safe places to retreat, something to break their line of vision from each other to allow them freedom from stress if someone gets nippy or in their face - fish can be territorial. With nothing in the tank but themselves there is nothing to break the territory as it were, and nothing to do for entertainement but nip at each other. Please try to get at least something in there, it will help.
However, as I mentioned before, getting some ornaments in the tank will help to stop that from happening. Fish in community tanks need safe places to retreat, something to break their line of vision from each other to allow them freedom from stress if someone gets nippy or in their face - fish can be territorial. With nothing in the tank but themselves there is nothing to break the territory as it were, and nothing to do for entertainement but nip at each other. Please try to get at least something in there, it will help.
cannot really see from the video whether the molly's got any issues.
seems ok to me from the video.
seems ok to me from the video.
yeah I have some stuff in there now. So hopefully that will help. But what I am saying about the tail is...its half gone. Like look at a previous video compared with the recent one. You can definitely tell. The Mollys tail is half gone.
Edit: Well no half but like the very end the clear part is gone.
Well it depends on how you see cannibalsim. Im just kidding, if your asking if him dieing is ok then it's just another indicator that your tank is not stable and your fish are kind of suffering from it. If your talking about the eating, well, fish fend for themselves in the wild, and a dead fish/brother looks like a free meal.
tigi78840
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It's o.k., unless you think your ghost shrimp died of some horrible contagious disease,lol fisheat them in nature...and shrimp and fish normally pick at anything dead in the tank, anyway.I had a problem with my ghost shrimp always dying, and I found on here, that there's copper as an ingredient in some fishfoods, and that invertibrates are sensitive to copper, so you might check the ingredients in any fish foods that you are putting in there. I checked mine, and realized the reason I couldn't ever keep them alive was probably because I was poisoning them. I had wardley shrimp pellets, AND wardley algae wafers. Both contain copper. Whaen I switched to brands that I made sure didn't contain copper, they stayed alive for way longer periods of time.
The only issue is that a dead shrimp (or fish) will degrade your water quality. I'd remove anything that's left before bed time tonight.
Eric
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