strange swimmer

[_]im]

Hi,

I have a molly in my tank that when I first bought him he seemed fine, actually even a little agressive towars other fish. Then the next day he was sitting in the plants not moving around much at all, and wasnt eating. Today he is swimming around fine but at times he is swimming vertically or is vertical in the water. Is something wrong with the fish or is it just something that mollies do when they swim around?

Thanks

 

[wetwetwet]

Doesn't sound right mate

Got any info on your tank - water parameters, size, tankmates, how long set-up, cycled etc.



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[Guppylover]

This sounds like Swim Bladder Disease to me. I need to have your water parameters, size, tankmates, how long set-up and if you have a filter a heater. It would help every much.

 

[_]im]

I have set up the tank for about a week and half, but it is an established tank because it was set up before i purchased it. Ammonia is 0 along with nitrate. I have a 10gallon, and all the other mollies and corydoras are fine. Could it just be it has a swimbladder problem? Is this contageous?

Thanks for the help

 

[_]im]

There's also a female white molly in there with him, he wouldnt be doing that to get her attention would he? Seems really odd, and the potbellied mollies I have dont do that at all. If it is swimbladder is there anything to treat it?
Thanks

 

[wetwetwet]

If the tank was moved and the filter turned off for any lenght of time then the benificial bacteria will start to die... causing another mini cycle...

Do you test the water yourself? ammonia, nitrIte and nitrAte

do you have current water readings?

NitrAte is unlikly to be zero as it is the final stage of the nitrogen cycle and only removed by water changes (and by a lesser extent by plants)

How many total fish in the tank? You may be overstocked causing environmental probs.

Could you be overfeeding again causing water probs?...

Before considering/treating for infections look at water quality....

It sounds like it could be a swimbladder problem but they are nortoriously hard to treat especially if you don't know the cause...




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[_]im]

Hi,

I have tested all 3 and all seem low, nitrate is up a bit, but ammonia and nitrate are both at zero. The water is 74 and the ph is 7.2. I only have 6 fish in the 10 gallon tank and the rest all seem to be fine. I feed the fish twice a day, no more than that. I'm quite sure now its swimbladder, although the fish does swim around normally half the time, or stare at my fry that are ina breeder net in the tank, haha.

 

[triliaeris]

Ours was doing something similar.

We had two black mollies that were always together. One died of something (possibly popeye, not really for sure though since at some point in the last month he's had tons of problems). Anyway, when the other one was alone, he'd get really close to the side of the tank and then swim up and down. Sometimes vertically, sometimes not.

We think he was seeing his reflection or something and thought maybe it was the other molly. We went out and got another one for him, and he seems to be doing fine now!

 

[_]im]

Yeah I find mine doing the same thing swimming up and down the tank. Both sets of my mollies do this, not frequentely, but they do it. Maybe its typical behavoir, I moved the plants around the tank, that might be the cause of it too.

 

[Red]

My black moor is having a swimbladder problem (among other things) at the moment and Danio2004 recommended Interpet's Swimbladder Treatment No. 13. He's used it and says it works. I've dosed for the first time today so I'll let you know any results, although I fear it may be too late for this little girl.

 

[ketyana]

I feed the fish twice a day, no more than that

LOL thnkd God no more than that, I think you will find most fish keeper feed there fish closer to 2-3 times a WEEK!!!