my mollies/barbs & Texas Winter

[Colia11]

Hi all. Hate this is my first post in this site.

I'm one of those unfortunate that is going through the Texas Wintery Problems. I lost power for 33hours and my house temperature was around 48°.

I had a battery operated air blower and was able to use in my 10gallon that has my mollies & barbs. The temperature in the water got as low as 64. We were changing about 10-20% every 2 hours to try and push the temperature back up to at least 70. Every other water refresh i was adding in the appropriate chemicals along with pinch more stress-coat. I was told you can't really overdo that chemical. We were doing the same in our 5.5gallon mollies tank. In the 10gallon, we lost a barb ?. Now the dalmatian molly (Dally) is looking more gray than "white" and hanging around the heater for the first few hours once the electricity came back on & now she's really hanging in a bottom corner away from others. She isnt pregnant-or at least showing. An orange/black spots molly (Tiger) was doing the same as Dally, hanging for hours at the heater. Her colors look pale. Some of the green tiger barbs look pale as well. The tank is a bit cloudy. Should I leave this cloudiness alone?

In the 5.5 gallon, our strong male molly (Radius) is looking rather pale as well.

Its been 10 hours and the temperatureis where it was before the 33hours of no electricity.
Am I in trouble with the pale/quiet issue? We worked so hard to keep the tank temperature close to the 70 mark. Did I destroy the tanks ecosystem?

Thank you for any help & advice!

Holly-
Novice: 2 tanks - love for Mollies

 

[Colin_T]

You probably have an ammonia or nitrite problem.

Test the water quality and do a 75% water change and gravel clean every day for a week. Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

 

[Colia11]

Now it appears those same 2 mollies plus my strong male (Big Daddy) & my balloon female (T) all have what appears to be fungus. My local fish guy said it appears to be fungus. I did a 50% water change & added the fungus medicine. So now I've got a green tank. ? I'm taking my water in on Monday to get tested. I want something to work. My poor fish. My male rosy barb was picking on my mollies so now he is in the isolation tank (lol the naughty corner).

Picture is of Dally before medication.

 

[Colin_T]

It looks more like excess mucous on the tail. Fish naturally have a mucous coating over their body and infs. When they are stressed they produce more mucous and it can appear as cream or white patches.

With livebearers, salt works well to treat most external problems. Use 2 heaped tablespoons of rock salt for every 20 litres (5 gallons) of tank water. Keep salt in there for at least 2 weeks but no longer than 4 weeks.