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She appears to have cotton mouth. She is now in a hospital tank medicated with Furan-2. Added salt to both the hospital and display tanks. Any ideas on what is happening?

I did the autopsy myself with a hobby knife; easy for an ex-fisherman. But I'm not edumacated enough to tell many details. I wanted to figure out what happened to the babies and possibly save any that where still alive. The unhatched eggs where rather obvious.

Thanks for the concern. I give them some variety but I've been too dependant on flake food and got giving enough veggies. Partly because of the mess it leaves in the tank. My sick fish is not doing quite as well as I thought. When I thought she was swimming, it turns out she was resting on...

A friend of mine has been keeping a male sailfin molly for about 10 years. It is fist-sized, almost 7" from nose to tail.

Something similar happened to me. I had a female molly that was harassed by another molly while pregnant. As she died, she gave birth to four fry. An autopsy revealed that most of the fry died before hatching in her stomach. The fry that where born where larger than normal, likely about a...

Thankfully, all is well again. Her problem started a couple hours after feeding on dried flake that was floating on the surface. I read somewhere that one possible cause of swimbladder problems is when the fish eats flake that then expands in their digestive system and creates a blockage. One...

Ammona and nitrites undetectable, nitrates < 10ppm, PH 6.9. No other fish are effected.

I've got a female lyretail swordtail that has suddenly taken ill. She is breathing hard and sitting on the bottom. Occasionally, she will swim with great vigor to the top, but will soon slow down and sink to the bottom. She shares a tank with several other swords (adult and fry) plus some neon...

At my local PetSmart, only the manager knows anything about fish. Everyone else is clueless, even after working there for several months. However, the tanks are well maintained. If they carried anything I was interested in, I would buy from them. My local Petco constantly have tanks of...

With mollies, paties, and swordtails, it's best to keep only one male in a mixed-sex tank unless it's a large tank with lots of places to hide. If you have more than one male, you'd need several so the most agressive male can spread around its' abuse. The most common recommendation is to use...

I did not have good luck when receiving fish from a breeder. This was a reputable breeder, shipped overnight, and arrived in good condition. One died after a few weeks, and another died after a couple months. Neither showed obvious signs of sickness but where not feeding well or very active...

I had acquired my swordtails about a couple months ago from a private breeder. All three females where lethargic and not eating well. One female died a couple weeks after I got her. They normally hide out in the corners and keep their fins clamped. About two weeks ago, one of my black...

Thanks for the reply! To evacuate the air in the siphon, I attached an airline fitting designed to hook up two sections of hose. That is the piece that I attached with silicon, not the hose itself. That's a good idea for checking for leaks. I suspect the leak may be where the pipe meets...

I've got a 29G display tank and two 10G breeder tanks above it. A canister filter pumps water to the upper level, which siphons from one tank to the next, and an overflow box returns the water to the display tank. The siphon failed, causing one of the 10G tanks to overflow, and leaving about...

I recently bought 10 ghost shrimp at a LFS for $0.20/each. I keep them at 80 degrees with mollies, swordtails, and neon tetras. None of my fish harass them, and at that temperature they are quite active. Mine start swimming when the flake hits the water and usually compete with the tetras for...

It started last Sunday; I noticed a significant amount of white fluffy growth on the body of one of my black mollies. Within 12 hours, I placed two mollies and a swordtail into the hospital tank (the second molly and the swordtail had a little white on the tips of their fins). I medicated with...