Misha
Aquarium Advice Newbie
My black mollly is in my five gallon aquarium with one of her offspring, some rasbora and two otocinclus . I had removed her from my 53 gallon because my Sailfin Molly (Gillbert) wouldn't stop harassing her and she developed some white patches due to what i think is stress. The amonia, nitrite and nitrate are always at zero in all my tanks. But now she still randomly has white patches appear, or white on the end of her tail fin or small patches on her mouth, and as soon as I see them develop, I put her in the five gallon hospital tank with malachite green for a few days and it does the trick. Or I give her salt water baths for thirty min which also really help. I do this because it is recurring. I don't know why. My parameters are perfect, I do weekly water changes. It's a fantastic little tank with a great light, built in filter with all the fixins' of a canister filter inside. Definitely not Walmart quality, that's the hospital tank. So I'm thinking that if the water were brackish, this problem wouldn't exist, however, the half-grown fry molly is fine in the same tank. I recently put in a crystal red shrimp, (and no, she doesn't try to eat it) so I am wondering...if I add salt to the water, will it hurt the shrimp, or the otos? I know it's not good for my live plants, but those I can sacrifice if I must. Or is it recurring because perhaps she's not entirely cured, even though she looks it, when I put her back in her regular tank? Should I just leave her in the hospital tank for a month? Any thoughts?