I'm sorry that your molly is struggling
Will try to help.
What are the new water test results?
Do you have an airstone running in the tanks? Raised temp and medications can reduce oxygen in the water, an airstone can help.
I think the treatment might be taking its toll on one of my black mollies im just observing him at the moment sitting at the bottom.. has moved about and come upto the top.
Just done the gravel clean. Weird though i think they have allocated a toilet area because the most crap was by the mossballs upfront.
Water change being done in a min and will go over gravel again
Fish don't really toilet train (would be useful if they did!) but like
@AilyNC said,
it's common to have certain spots where the worst of the muck builds up, according to filters, tank flow, and decor that things get trapped behind and under sometimes.
@AdoraBelle Dearheart you did worming with Mollies recently, any advice?
I think poop gathers where the water flow leaves it too. But if you do see poop zones concentrate there when gravel cleaning.
Yea i treated for the wormer doing the water chabe now
I have 2 birthing tanks 1 has the fry in the other has the molly. Ive just moved him to it.
I have a 12 l quarantine that is home to the baby platy.
Im thinking maybe move the babies in with him and get a 54l put all these in there treat em and redo my tank at least then to get rid of any worms whitespot and whatever else..
Would a 54l be ok for a few weeks
No just at the bottom of the breeder not moving much.
Its upsetting because in trying all i can.
Here is some pics
Last one is of my dalmation. Persistant this bloody worm.
Do you think my fry could have it dont want to mobe them in with the other if there is a chance
I'm confused about how many tanks you have and which you're treating?
Hold off on trying to re-do any tanks, you won't get rid of ich by tearing down a tank, nor worms either unless you start from scratch or bleach everything. Bleach steralising equipment like nets and buckets between worm treatments is worth doing (can show you how to do it safely!) to kill worms eggs, but moving things around and tearing down tanks isn't the way to beat this thing. Using the right medication, the right amount of times, and in every tank, will wipe it out from your tanks. Then you only have to worry about quarantining new fish/plants etc when you bring in something new. I understand how horrible and scary it is, believe me, when worms appeared in my tanks again, I was so traumatised by the previous bout I went ham bleaching cleaning everything and being paranoid about cross contamination. I know what it's like! I have a thread on it here I can show you, I was a mess. But carefully and methodically is the way to beat this; not moving fish around or starting over. Chin up, you'll get through it too.
That photo of the dalmation confirms that it's camallanus at least. Which medication are you using again, and are you treating each tank? Because camallanus worms are highly contagious, and they can lay low for a long time before you notice symptoms. Eggs can be transferred just by you putting your hands in one tank then another, or shared equipment like nets, syphons, buckets etc. You really need to treat each tank at the same time. Trust me, I avoided treating one tank when i had camallanus, and regretted it. Just meant I lost more fish and needing to treat all of them again when worms popped up again later. If the fry have ever been in a tank with any of your other livebearers, or you've used the same net or bucket, they need treating too. Livebearers from fish stores are almost all from fish farms abroad, and both round and flat worms are super common with them.
My fry as young as two days old survived medication just fine, the problems for my livebearer fry happened before I knew it was worms, and fry that were between 1-2 months old began dying off. They were old enough to have ingested worm eggs and for the worms to have grown and become a heavy worm burden, but the fry were not yet old enough to be able to carry worms without too many ill effects like the adults were. For a time anyway, adults als became skinny, lethargic and having those long stringy white poops long before I finally saw the tell tale red paintbrush like worms. I lost so many fish in that age range before treatment - none since treatment. Better to treat them now than before the worms get large and cause more damage.
Which sadly, is the other thing that could be affecting your molly. Medicating and killing the worms isn't always the end of it, the medication either paralyses or kills the worms (depends on the med I think), which are still inside the fish. When those worms were alive, they attached themselves to the fishes digestive tract, to absorb nutrients. When they detach, that leaves small wounds, which can lead to infection. Or the fish struggles to pass the dead worms, and pass away from having dead worms degrading inside them. That's a horrible fact and I'm so sorry, but it's possible that the worms were just too much for this fish, or he was too weakened and has a secondary infection, or he hasn't been able to pass them. You could try feeding a blanched shelled and crushed pea to see if it helps him pass them, but other than that, keeping the water as pristine as possible with lots of fresh water changes is the best medicine.
