Black Molly, velvet and slime

[pandapops001]

Hi i'm pretty sure my black molly has velvet and slime, he sits at the top flicks on anything it touches and has grey patches, i bought some interpet today (Anti Slime and Velvet), but it says to take out the carbon and zeolite filter media from the filter, i dont know what this is and the guy in the shop said to just take the whole filter out

My problem is, if i do this i will lose my bacteria so far, as i have to keep it out for seven days, what can i do??

 

[Cheese Specialist]

Do not take the filter out! The guy in the petshop wants a slap!! Carbon is black stuff, I never have it in my filters. I am not sure on zeolite either but I have used the same meds that you are doing now without problems. What kind of filter do you have? What's the media like?

Good luck with your molly, a bit of salt would be good to add if the other fish are salt tollerant by the way.

 

[pandapops001]

Okay

I have a fluval 4 filter, he said he thought the zeolite was the lights, and to leave them off too, which would inevitably kill my plants i think

It has two sponges in the main bit, and a little thing it tells you to pull out and wash under the tap like a little motor reel thing, that is what i thought the carbon was, but knew the filter wouldnt work without it.

My water levels are fine, and i've added the meds, the filter is currently sat in a bowl of fishtank water? as i didnt know what to do?

thanks for replying i really didnt know what to do, do i add it back in now, ]

and will my molly get better soon, it's seems like the only fish that is ill, but he looks very poorly,

i have
5 mollys (2 silver, 1 dalmation, 2 black)
3 guppies (1 blue, 2 orange)
2 platys (blue tint)
2 swordtails (1 blue, i orange and white)
and a corydory
in a 27.5gal tank
so i dont know if the salt would be okay or not

 

[Cheese Specialist]

The cory would not like the salt.

I have a fluval 4 and it does not come with carbon so you are ok to leave the filter going as it is if there's nothing added to it. Zeolite is the light? This guy is very dim by the sounds of it!! I think zeolite is a kind of filter media but it may not be something that comes as standard. Leave the lights as normal, the last thing you want is your plants dying as well as there being sick fish.