Hi there,
From one day to the next my male gold dust molly started behaving weird, hiding deep inside rocks and only occasionally coming out just to swim frantically to another hiding spot.
Water conditions are 0 N02 and 0 NH4, 15ppm N03 in a 47G/180l Juwel Rio 180 tank (with Bioflow 3.0) kept at 76/24.5 degr.
Other inhabitants: 6 neons, 1 red tail black shark, 3 female mollies and 5 babies, 3 zebra danios, 2 female + 1 male guppies and 1 lonely red phantom tetra.
The only recent change is the addition of CO2 to the planted tank, but only @ 1.5 bubbles/sec which has caused a pH drop from 7.6 to 7.2 at a hardness of 6. I run an aerator at night for safety. I did have one neon die from neon tetra disease about a week ago.
So conditions are not ideal for mollies in my community tank, but the other ones (3 females and 5 babies) look completely fine.
I managed to catch and put him in an improvised 10l nursery tank with water taken from the main tank tank, a seeded 300l filter, aerator and temperature set at 82.5/28 degrees. Also added a teaspoon of sea salt (I don't have aquarium kind) to it.
He seems to be doing better: he's eating and seems calmer.
I wonder what is/was wrong with him? I can't see any spots, fungi, ...
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Fred
From one day to the next my male gold dust molly started behaving weird, hiding deep inside rocks and only occasionally coming out just to swim frantically to another hiding spot.
Water conditions are 0 N02 and 0 NH4, 15ppm N03 in a 47G/180l Juwel Rio 180 tank (with Bioflow 3.0) kept at 76/24.5 degr.
Other inhabitants: 6 neons, 1 red tail black shark, 3 female mollies and 5 babies, 3 zebra danios, 2 female + 1 male guppies and 1 lonely red phantom tetra.
The only recent change is the addition of CO2 to the planted tank, but only @ 1.5 bubbles/sec which has caused a pH drop from 7.6 to 7.2 at a hardness of 6. I run an aerator at night for safety. I did have one neon die from neon tetra disease about a week ago.
So conditions are not ideal for mollies in my community tank, but the other ones (3 females and 5 babies) look completely fine.
I managed to catch and put him in an improvised 10l nursery tank with water taken from the main tank tank, a seeded 300l filter, aerator and temperature set at 82.5/28 degrees. Also added a teaspoon of sea salt (I don't have aquarium kind) to it.
He seems to be doing better: he's eating and seems calmer.
I wonder what is/was wrong with him? I can't see any spots, fungi, ...
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Fred