Sick Molly

[GouramiGirl87]

My Molly's eye is all puffed up and opaque colored as well as a few spots on his back. He is not acting strange or anything.
I have an algae eater, a platy and a baby platy.
I am VERY worried about my baby platy! I want it to live! So if this is contagious tell me!
Thank you
OH yes
20 gallon tank, levels are normal

 

[QuotheRaven]

what do the spots look like??

 

[Spooky76]

If its a chineese algae eater they can get very nasty too, so keep an eye on it.

Are all your water stats OK ?

As raven said, need to know what they look like really. If the eye is clouding up sounds like bacterial infection, is it swelling ?

 

[omega59]

white spots can me ick/ich they look like tiny salt specs on the fins and can spread to the body, white eyes can also be a fongus infection. i recommend going to your lfs and speaking to someone who knows and start a treatement asap. here is a great website you can read about all sorts of diseases etc, i nkow it helped me tons!


http/www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/health/ich.shtml

 

[backtotropical]

My Molly's eye is all puffed up and opaque colored as well as a few spots on his back. He is not acting strange or anything.
I have an algae eater, a platy and a baby platy.
I am VERY worried about my baby platy! I want it to live! So if this is contagious tell me!
Thank you
OH yes
20 gallon tank, levels are normal

When you say levels are normal, what do you mean?

What are your levels?

 

[Angel_Queen]

The opacity of the eye could be a sign of ich or even velvet. What do the spots of the fish's body look like?

 

[GouramiGirl87]

I know it's not ich. I had that before. they look like mold does on bread? wite and soft looking.

 

[omega59]

so it is a greenish/white color? that is how bread mold looks lol. anyhow just check out that website i pasted above.

 

[GouramiGirl87]

So he's all better, haven't done anything. WEIRD!