Hello, I'm in need of opinions. Picked up a fish today from a college girl who didn't have time for it. Its an orange and black molly, I was startled when I got there to find it in a bag of orange water which should have been a red flag....got it home and did a slow acclimation with my tank water(totally cycled, nitrates stay 20 and under) put It in a clear container for further inspection to see the black scales along its head and gills are raised. The orange water tested 0 nitrite and 80ish, possibly more nitrate.
Fish is also quite large and since I've never kept mollys long term I'm not sure if its bloated at all or normal sized. It does not appear to be abnormally large in the mid section. Basically I don't want to risk any contamination in my tanks even though I usually do a round of worm treatment when I add new fish just in case.
Hoping for thoughts and opinions, I once had a Betta with dropsy that never appeared to recover fully even in perfect water and after meds.
Is it possible for the scales to just be a stress issue from previous water quality? I don't think ive had any of my fishes scales do this back before I had cycling down so it seems there are underlying causes. Thanks for the opinions. Not letting me post a pic. I will try to add it after posting.apparently it did let me add a pic...
Fish is also quite large and since I've never kept mollys long term I'm not sure if its bloated at all or normal sized. It does not appear to be abnormally large in the mid section. Basically I don't want to risk any contamination in my tanks even though I usually do a round of worm treatment when I add new fish just in case.
Hoping for thoughts and opinions, I once had a Betta with dropsy that never appeared to recover fully even in perfect water and after meds.
Is it possible for the scales to just be a stress issue from previous water quality? I don't think ive had any of my fishes scales do this back before I had cycling down so it seems there are underlying causes. Thanks for the opinions. Not letting me post a pic. I will try to add it after posting.apparently it did let me add a pic...