cheeky chappie
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tank: juwel rio 180
filtration: juwel compact built-in
cycled: yes
water change: 50% once per week, 'tapsafe' used during each change
water parameters: always good
stock: 2 x pim pictus, 3 x red tailed black shark, 3 x green tiger barb, 4 x white molly (all now deceased)
i've been struggling with the white mollies since i got them tbh, one died 3-4 weeks ago with no visible sign of illness/disease, then another died after what seemed liked whitespot (which i treated tank for and they seemed to recover), the remaining two looked in good health up until yesterday. i was late home last night so didn't look in tank until this morning, immediately noticed my remaining two mollies were hiding at bottom of tank under a piece of wood, on closer inspection they looked really bad, severe whitespot/fungal infection i think. removed them from tank and one seemed to die within mins, the remaining one wasn't long after it.
so i've lost them all.
the other fish appear to be in good/great health and didn't suffer from the whitespot etc that the mollies did. i thought they were supposed to be quite hardy fish so i'm surprised i've lost them all but my remaining stock are all fine. the water parameters always appear to be within spec and i do a 50% water change weekly ... too much?
what do you think caused me to lose them all, anything i've done/not done?
filtration: juwel compact built-in
cycled: yes
water change: 50% once per week, 'tapsafe' used during each change
water parameters: always good
stock: 2 x pim pictus, 3 x red tailed black shark, 3 x green tiger barb, 4 x white molly (all now deceased)
i've been struggling with the white mollies since i got them tbh, one died 3-4 weeks ago with no visible sign of illness/disease, then another died after what seemed liked whitespot (which i treated tank for and they seemed to recover), the remaining two looked in good health up until yesterday. i was late home last night so didn't look in tank until this morning, immediately noticed my remaining two mollies were hiding at bottom of tank under a piece of wood, on closer inspection they looked really bad, severe whitespot/fungal infection i think. removed them from tank and one seemed to die within mins, the remaining one wasn't long after it.
so i've lost them all.
the other fish appear to be in good/great health and didn't suffer from the whitespot etc that the mollies did. i thought they were supposed to be quite hardy fish so i'm surprised i've lost them all but my remaining stock are all fine. the water parameters always appear to be within spec and i do a 50% water change weekly ... too much?
what do you think caused me to lose them all, anything i've done/not done?