White Spots Balloon Molly!

Alec2cool

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I just noticed my balloon molly has white spots on her fins and her orange color is really faded. She's swimming around fine but i know somethings wrong. I put prime, aq salt, and ich attack in there. Is that good enough or do i need to do more? did i do too much?
 
I think that should be fine, I had a similar experience but I put my mollies in my brackish tank and they're doing great now. The Ich went away within days but I used melafix, it's more mild on your fish.
 
Ok. I really hope she pulls thru this. She's the most beautiful ballon molly. Havent found one prettier. Shes bright orange with black and white spots in a artful lined order. and orange spots on her fins. also has a large sailfin.
 
You could try to research ich online... I seem to recall raising water temp will also help, but not sure how that works with mollies. Good luck!
 
a salt bath is adding about 3 teaspoons of aqaurium salt to 1 measured cup of water dipping the fish in the bath for about 5-10 seconds and then putting him back in the mainsytem for 2-3 mins and repeat 3-5 times. DUe that only if its ich, and use caution this should not be used on delciate or very hyper sensitve fish, most mollies will do fine with a salt bath. Ich can usally be cured by adding salt into the main system and raising the main system temp over 83, i have never used an ich medication because it is so easily cured by just raisng the temp. I also jsut got reading an article about 2 new bacterias inside the ich parasite that were not known to science until know. They went on to talking about using a gram postive anti-biotic in conjuction with any type of ich treatment. My last treatment of an ich outbreak at work was cured by raising the temp to 84 and adding Maracyn into the main system 5 days later all 85 fish that had ich were still alive and had no signs of ich.
 
Excellent, you think a 75% water change then adding 2 tablespoons of salt in the 10g will help?
 
a salt bath is adding about 3 teaspoons of aqaurium salt to 1 measured cup of water dipping the fish in the bath for about 5-10 seconds and then putting him back in the mainsytem for 2-3 mins and repeat 3-5 times. DUe that only if its ich, and use caution this should not be used on delciate or very hyper sensitve fish, most mollies will do fine with a salt bath. Ich can usally be cured by adding salt into the main system and raising the main system temp over 83, i have never used an ich medication because it is so easily cured by just raisng the temp. I also jsut got reading an article about 2 new bacterias inside the ich parasite that were not known to science until know. They went on to talking about using a gram postive anti-biotic in conjuction with any type of ich treatment. My last treatment of an ich outbreak at work was cured by raising the temp to 84 and adding Maracyn into the main system 5 days later all 85 fish that had ich were still alive and had no signs of ich.

But a short bath, dipping the fish in salt water, will do bugger all for ich. You can't kill the parasite on the fish; it's the water you treat rather than the fish. It's more likely to make things worse, as it's very stressful on the fish.
 
:iagree: A salt bath will not benefit your fish. here is a link for ich and it's treatment http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1657382&postcount=2

Follow the advice in this post. Also look up max. temp. for your mollies and any other fish that you have in the tank and adjust it to what your fish can handle. This will speed up the cycle of ich. Prime is good as it will help with the slime coat and the salt will also help and salt will also kill ich inthe aquarium but not on your fish as Karlth stated. Melafix, I don't know about but I don't think you will recieve any benefit from it. Adding TOO many chemicals to your tank at one time could do more harm than good as a person should add carbon back to their filter to remove any meds before adding different meds. Did you take carbon out of your filter before adding ich med? If not carbon will remove the med before you see any benefit. Temp and salt are the most recommended treatment because it does work.Like stated earlier in this post, follow what the link says and your bout of ich will be cured.
 
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