Completely devastated!!!
Two days ago my orange Mollie died. She had fought as long as she could, bless her.
This left my last adult white Mollie. I have come to the conclusion that the spots on her and my orange Mollie were natural and when I bought them they look pretty young. I think they developed there spots as part of maturing, as when I went into the fish shop yesterday, lots of the Mollies looked the same!! The spots do not stand off their scales like cysts, so I don't think it's the snails.
Just gone to feed the fish this morning and couldn't see my white Mollie. She is dead, at the bottom of the tank. The only symptom she has shown at all is that when she tried to eat last night, the food was spitting back out of her mouth. So shocked by her death. Have had a good look at her, but can't see anything obvious. Only thing I noticed last night was an air bubble under one of her gills.
So, in the space of three months, I have managed to kill all three of my beautiful adult fish. Devastated
They were such characters. I think she was in early stages of pregnancy too.
The five month old fry are all fine.
My water stats are PH 7.5, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 0, Ammonia 0
I went out yesterday and bought a hospital tank set up, brand new. I am going to set this up today, and put the fry in it. Am closing the big 27 gallon tank down for now, had enough. Could you advise me on what I could sterilise everything with please. Want to get everything 100% in case they had TB. don't think so though, because the fish whose tail bent, it was just the end of her tail every now and then.
Am not going to get any more fish in the forseeable future, as we are adopting another child at the moment, so very busy! Will continue to care for the fry though and see how they go
Just gutted.........