Amy ferries
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Hi there,
I've had my tank for about 5 months now and nothing has gone wrong up until now. Off hand I think its about 60 litres, maybe a little less and has about 6 plants in it. In it I have 3 black phantom tetras, 3 flame tetras, 7 neons, 4 white cloud minnows, 4 balloon mollies, 1 white molly, 1 dalmation molly, 2 corydoras catfish, 1 algae eater (sorry dont know the technical name, its not a loach though), 2 platies, and 3 golden danios. It all started about a month ago when i lost a full sized male dalmation molly, it was found on the bottom of the tank upside down with no visible symtoms of disease. The only thing I noticed was a slight yellow edge to its top fin, I checked the other white mollie and I noticed they had goldish tint too so I decided to watch for any other symtoms. I began to notice the danios, black phantoms and mollies scratching themselves against the rocks and all the fish started hanging around the surface so I put in some slime/velvet disease tonic, this did not seem to help them hanging around the surface so I took a risk at stressing them and took all the fish out into buckets and did a 50% water change and added an undergravel filter to try and oxygenate the water. This stopped them hanging around the surface and the tonic was added again. (you can repeat it every 48 hours). A couple of days later my white balloon molly was on the bottom and looked as though shed been pecked at. All her fins were torn and her tail was almost none existant, I isolated her in a breeding trap and went to the pet store,they recommended a fin healing tonic and offered to test the water. A 25% water change was completed and then fin clear added, she only lasted another 24 hours and by the time she died her tail and fin had become progressively worse and had reddened. This was a couple of days ago. This morning I woke up to find one of my little algae eaters on the bottom of the tank on its side, with no visable symptoms, I am thinking that it may have starved because of the excessive cleaning earlier in the week when I added the undergravel filter but I'm unsure. After observing them again this morning I noticed scratching again in a couple of mollies and danios, what should I do??
I've had my tank for about 5 months now and nothing has gone wrong up until now. Off hand I think its about 60 litres, maybe a little less and has about 6 plants in it. In it I have 3 black phantom tetras, 3 flame tetras, 7 neons, 4 white cloud minnows, 4 balloon mollies, 1 white molly, 1 dalmation molly, 2 corydoras catfish, 1 algae eater (sorry dont know the technical name, its not a loach though), 2 platies, and 3 golden danios. It all started about a month ago when i lost a full sized male dalmation molly, it was found on the bottom of the tank upside down with no visible symtoms of disease. The only thing I noticed was a slight yellow edge to its top fin, I checked the other white mollie and I noticed they had goldish tint too so I decided to watch for any other symtoms. I began to notice the danios, black phantoms and mollies scratching themselves against the rocks and all the fish started hanging around the surface so I put in some slime/velvet disease tonic, this did not seem to help them hanging around the surface so I took a risk at stressing them and took all the fish out into buckets and did a 50% water change and added an undergravel filter to try and oxygenate the water. This stopped them hanging around the surface and the tonic was added again. (you can repeat it every 48 hours). A couple of days later my white balloon molly was on the bottom and looked as though shed been pecked at. All her fins were torn and her tail was almost none existant, I isolated her in a breeding trap and went to the pet store,they recommended a fin healing tonic and offered to test the water. A 25% water change was completed and then fin clear added, she only lasted another 24 hours and by the time she died her tail and fin had become progressively worse and had reddened. This was a couple of days ago. This morning I woke up to find one of my little algae eaters on the bottom of the tank on its side, with no visable symptoms, I am thinking that it may have starved because of the excessive cleaning earlier in the week when I added the undergravel filter but I'm unsure. After observing them again this morning I noticed scratching again in a couple of mollies and danios, what should I do??
