christine
Fish Fanatic
My mollie as of a couple of days has been just sitting around and the way he swims it looks like he is trying very hard to hold himselp from falliing on his side. He looks fine, I watched him for half an hour trying to look for dropsy or fungus or anything..he just started this...maybe the temp is too low 76 F... or maybe heis sick because of some of the algae...I have some on my glass like a square inch..does anyone know how to clean this off? He's not eating alot either and he usually fights all the other fish and takes their food...Also I noticed him vibrating once its about 1 or 2 seconds and he shakes like someone does when they are cold. It's not like he's flipping around he just looks straight ahead and shakes... my platies are healing up wonderfully from their fight and they are very active..they never were not..Is this a bad sign
? Maybe there is not enough salt beacuse for a week I added about 3.5 tablespoons/day to heal my platies..I've decreased this to 2.5 tbsp/day because I noticed they were healing up?? I give him brine shrimp sometimes, those freze dried ones, and he liked them, but maybe they made him sick. Anyways, plese help, Im sort of concerned thanx a bunch,,,, B)
? Maybe there is not enough salt beacuse for a week I added about 3.5 tablespoons/day to heal my platies..I've decreased this to 2.5 tbsp/day because I noticed they were healing up?? I give him brine shrimp sometimes, those freze dried ones, and he liked them, but maybe they made him sick. Anyways, plese help, Im sort of concerned thanx a bunch,,,, B)
Ok, I think it's eather salt poisining or a swim bladder infection. The way to get the algae off is use a kitchen sponge (clean of course and NO SOAP) and rub at it untill it comes off. That usually works. I would sepperate the molly and feed it mashed pes because it really does sound like a swim bladder infection. 8)
..i was watching him..it turned out to be dropsy 
... I added some meds to the tank for dropsy and fin rot ( it treats both) I figured this would be okay since my platies have a couple ragged spots on their fins...their fins are all better now 
..yesterday I found my mollie nose dived into the plants..barely alive...I moved him to my 2.5 gal hospital tank...added more meds and some aquarium salt..he was on his side yesterday morning..ever since then he's been a little more active and now he swims around some, too.. is this just a phase 
or do you think he might make it? If and when he gets better do you wait until the scales are not pine coney any more... I think I may have cought it early enough, since they only stick out at the top of his head and on the bottom of him, not on the sides... I was worried though...I haven't tried feeding him yet...and before I actua lly concluded it was dropsy he hadn't eaten for a day. So, now he hasn't eaten a thing for 4 days...will he starve before he makes it through 
??? Or should I attempt feeding him? My platies had some ragged scales, but they were just from a fight now they are healed up. Also...I haven't gotten my 2nd batch of fish yet...but my tank is cycled... I think Ill wait for about a month until everything settles down to get them. By the way...does anyone reccomend adding fish after I have had dropsy in a tank? Or if my mollie survives, in a tank with a previous dropsy fish??? 
