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Thanks for the replies guys. The gold dust is even less social today and not eating. I read a TON of stuff on the web about Piscine TB and I did manage to find soem tetracycline which one artice said may help in some cases. I'm going to try it for the perscribed 5 days and see if anything...

1st i'll give a little background: last year i setup my tank, and a few months after the tank was cycled I had a fish die (small gold dust molly) from what I figured was TB, there were also red cysts. The bent spine was the only indicator. Last month almost a year later I had a Silver Molley get...

Menagerie: Thanks for the links! I couldnt find anything remotly like the discription of these red spots. They are concerning me greatly and show no more real signs of reduction. They are definetly internal. Fortunatly the poor girl is still eating well and looks happy and attentive, and today...

Thanks for the reply! She seems to get a little better every day, and the red spot in still there but subsiding. She's still not using her tail much at all, but hopefully she will make a full recovery.. so far so good!

If its a male, be prepared for fry, and LOTS of em! I love mollies very much, but with a male among felames I just couldn't keep up with 30+ fry a month. I have over 150 fry at the moment in a 5 gal tank (i had to buy anther tank for all of em)! Just be wared :) I just have females now, and was...

wow no replys.. this board has gotten slower since I was last here! Just an update, she's doing much beter today, and beginning to use her tail a little. The red spots seem to be slowly subsiding also. I'm used up the whole bottle of PimaFix so I guess i'll put the carbon back in and see what...

Hi all! I have a adult silver molly that is getting over a swim bladder problem, I found her last week swimming round upside down and having a really hard time maneuvering (head down). I did some research and was recommended PimaFix by my LFS. Thinking it might be a constipation issue (I had...

My neons are grey when I tun on the lights in the AM but 10 minutes later the neon turns on and they are back to normal. its kinda neat, but it did freek my out the 1st time i saw that!

Mollies! Sailfins, Baloons, Dalmations, Silvers, Black, and 24 Caret Gold. Great fish, active friendly, tuff as nails, huge variety, easy to breed (just try and stop em!). I love my mollies, I need a bigger tank so I can get some MORE! (and another for all the durn Fry!)

Nitrites are 0, Nitrates are only 5 mg/L the tank is recently cycled. The tank gets virtually no daylight as The tank is in the basment and I keep the curtains drawn all the time. If its not comming from the water could it be from excess feeding? As I mentioned before its really localized on one...

I have a healthy layer of nasty looking brown algae/moss on an orniment , I keep cleaning it and a day or 2 later its back in full force. Its most noticable right underneath the HOB filter stream so that much have somthing to do with it. My Tank consists of mostly mollies and they are usually...

Thanks Allivymar! I already have salt in the tank, I had no idea that it helped reduce nitrite toxicity, very cool! I only have 1 TBS per 6 gallons or so, should I add more or is that doing the job OK? I'll keep changing the water to keep it under .3 and hope that those bacteria catch up. This...

My mollies are tuff as hell I have 5 adults, 2 adolesants and 8 fry right now. They have lived thru cycling and ever given birth is far less than ideal conditions. They definetly like a little salt in the tank. I only have about 1 TBS per 6 gallons though in a 28 gallon tank.

My tank finished cycling a few weeks ago so I added some new fish and noticed the normal mini-cycle that occurs amonia levels dropped to 0 and have stayed there for 2 days since the last water change but nitrites spiked to .8 (which is why i changed the water). After I changed it it read .3...

I'm kind of suprised a slip on pre-filter isnt available on the market... maybe i'm on to somthing :) On a lighter note to ths thread, my momma molly gave me 8 more healthy and very gold colored fry this morning, with more to come by the looks of it! It my be time for a breeder tank for all the...

FWIW as soon as I added salt to my tank with mollies the momma gave birth. It salso seems to have helped treat a small cyst on another fish. I have 4 tetras in my 29 gal tank and they dont seem to mind a small amount of salt at all. I didnt add much (its "doc wellfishes" aquarium salt for...

I have an aquaclear 200, it doesnt look as though thise strainers will adapt, but thanks for the link! :) I'll have to see what else I can find, currantly in mollyland my new silver molies seem be be enjoyiong the taste of sterile cotton bandages.. goofy fish!

oh no! I just lost a little gold dust molly, she looked exactly the same way. Taill all crooked and barely moving. It seemed like a sizue, and she recovered from it for a few days, but died a week later after it happened again. It was really heartbreaking. I'm by no means an expert, bt from...

Well ive been experimenting, the best ve found around the house is bandage gauze. The 2 remaining fry are getting real big (little over 3/4") and have taken to eating algae off the gauze! I have to replace it every few days because it gets prety nasty looking. Pany hose sounds like a good idea...

Can I do somthing like this long-term, or will I defeat the purpose of having a filter? I intend to have a lot more molly fry in this tank.

Definetly go with mollies. I have one 2 gold dust mollies and they have a lot of charicter, are fun to watch, great for cycling your tank and incredably hardy. They also have live fry which are a lot of fun. My bigges molly has 6 babbies of 3 differant breeds only 2 weeks after I got her. I...

I lost 4 of my 6 new molly fry to my evil filter :( They had gown to about a centimeter and I figured they were safe out in the tank (they had been in the breeder trap but I felt bad for them). After loosing the 1st 2 on the 1st day I put some thread around the intake but 2 more managed to get...

Time for a trip to the LFS for some algea tools... they see me and my credit card comming from a mile away :) I don't think i've ever made it out of there under 50 bux haha. jsoong: thansk for the pH info, I will test som tap water after it has settled, that might well be the situation. I need...

Oh yeah one more thing, what do I use to remove algae from the glass? Is there a special tool for this?

Wow thanks for all the advice! My water parameters after 4 weeks still show some amonia and nitrites and nitrAtes showed up last week. I've been changing about 15% of the water every 5 days to keep the amonia down (its never got over 1.2) hopefully the amonia leves disapear soon, I have a...