"Nikki Casali" wrote in message
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Gill Passman wrote:

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After having got over a problem in which all of my white mollies were
too buoyant, I now have the complete opposite problem with one of
those
mollies. This particular molly has no buoyancy whatsoever and has to
battle gravity to reach the water surface. She has lost her well
rounded
figure to the point that she looks underfed, although she is eating
whatever is given to her. It's as if the swimming bladder has been
damaged during the period of her being over buoyant.

I presume nothing can "fix" the problem. I've never been able to cure
internal physical problems before. At the moment she can do nothing
but
rest on the substrate when she's worn out of swimming.

Nikki


Hi Nikki,
Sounds similar to the symptoms my Mollies had - see posting "Sick

Mollie" -

sadly I lost her and another one afterwards...

The molly isn't in any obvious apparent pain. Did your molly look

anorexic?

Out of curiousity do you add salt?

I used to add 1 gm per litre of salt before I had live plants. I think
adding salt will disturb the equilibrium I have got going there. I'm not
sure whether placing the fish in a quarantine tank would help. The only
QT I have now is a 12 litre, a bit smaller than the 330l tank she's in
now. And she's got her friends with her, or adversaries. Yes, she's
still chasing the younger mollies around!

Actually, I've been looking for a nice QT recently. Maybe one of at
least 20 litres. But I think it needs to be of acrylic so it's easily
put away in storage. I'm wondering whether Maidenhead does something
suitable. Maybe a hex tank. I'll need to pop down to check out what
they've got. Any ideas?

Nikki


The biggest Hex tank I found (and bought) from Maidenhead was a 30L but
a
little too pretty for use as a QT tank....mine is in the Living
Room....It
was a Rena Kid tank - children thought it hilarous that mummy bought a
Kiddy
tank.

Oh, the shame! How will you ever live it down? :-)

I bought a 20L rectangular tank all inclusive which started off as a QT
tank
but now houses my betta for around £60. I did notice this weekend that
they
have a bare 20L tank at £17.99 but I don't think that it even had a lid.
My
local branches won't sell anything under 3galls....There are certainly
some
acrylic tanks around at Hare Hatch and probably Henley....but I haven't
looked too closely....Henley also had some nice bow tanks this weekend.

BTW which one do you use?

The most convenient one is at Mill Hill. I have also visited Wembley and
St. Albans. St. Albans has just opened and is huge. Pity it's straight
off the motorway. It's suicide trying to find the entrance at 70mph!

Nikki

Has to be said though, I'm starting to feel a bit guilty about all these
trips to Garden Centres and coming out with no plants - noticed the state of
the front today :-(

Priority this weekend is to visit Garden Centres and attempt to ignore the
fish....

Gill