Molly fish wasting disease??

[FlamingoSeal616]

Hi, I was wondering what my Molly has. He has been swimming around all weird for the past few days, and his stomach has been sunken in. I’m really worried about him and idk what i should do. I think it’s wasting disease, but I’m not too sure and I need too know for sure. Please help me!

 

[Colin_T]

The fish are covered in excess mucous (creamy white film over their body and fins). This is normally caused by something in the water irritating the fish. Check the ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH and GH of the water. You want 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, less than 20ppm nitrate, a pH above 7.0 and a GH above 250ppm for mollies.

Check its poop. If it has stringy white poop, then read the following link.

What to do if your fish has Stringy White Poop.

Fish do a stringy white poop for several reasons. 1) Internal Bacterial Infections causes the fish to stop eating, swell up like a balloon, breath heavily at the surface or near a filter outlet, do stringy white poop, and die within 24-48 hours of showing these symptoms. This cannot normally be...

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You can do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week. And add some rock salt/ aquarium salt (2 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres of tank water) to see if that helps. But check the water quality first and do a water change after you test the water.