On Mar 21, 9:01Â*am, Tynk wrote:
On Mar 20, 10:46�pm, "DEM via PetKB.com" u42059@uwe wrote:

umm how about the comunity tank did i take it out with one dose thx 4 the
advice ....
can u belive i applied 4 petsmart and ther was an age limit i am very very
sad � but i still like petsmart ....

I'm confused.
Did you have 2 separate tanks with Ich and you didn't see any spots
after one dose in the first tank?
Then, now you have Ich attacking your Mollies.
Mollies are famous for getting Ich easily.
Treatment with Quick Cure is about the best medication for Ich there
is.
Treat for a full 7 days, not 2-3 like it says on the bottle.
That way you get the straggler Ich that couldn't be killed off during
a 2-3 day treatment.
Some folks treat even longer, but I do a routine 7 day treatment (with
Quick Cure only).
If your filter has carbon in it...remove it. It can absorb the
medication.
What other types of fish are kept with your mollies?
I ask because mollies need salt in their water. A Â*molly will thrive
in water that's nearly brackish.
Where as a molly that's kept in purely fresh water (no salt) will not.
They don't seem to live very long in freshwater either.
Why they're sold as a freshwater fish is beyond me. It's THE reason
they do so poorly.
Mollies are beautiful fish. They were one of the first fish I bought
for my tank (along with an angelfish).
Having a good local shop keeper that helped me a lot when I was a kid
learning the hobby.....he told me to always keep salt with the mollies
and then they'll do well. But it's too much salt for most of the other
fish.
A simple change (the addition of salt) like that can make a world of
difference with Mollies.
Keep up on water changes and gravel vacuuming.
If doing a water change, obviously do so before dosing the tank.
Lastly, be careful not to cross contaminate tanks.
This can be done by going from one tank to the other with the same
net, hand, when feeding, gravel vacs, etc.
So be aware. It's easier than you might think to goof up.
I've been in this hobby for many years, I really know better, but have
done it a few times on accident.
The last time I cross contaminated a tank by accident, I lost a tank
full of female Bettas, about 15 or so....on top of the other 6-8 that
came in with some of illness (that only affected bettas. I believe it
to be a betta-related virus only), and died.
It's a hard lesson to learn, and even harder when you know better.

Mollies are in that gorup of fish that is sold as freshwater with
advice to add salt. Welltruth be known mollies are a brackish water
fish and they actually do better in full strength sal****er thanthey
do freshwater. They are known ICH magnets, but that affliction goes
away if they are kept in water with a SG of 1.020 or so. Yes, 1.020 is
above what brackish water salinity is considered, and in closer to
full sal****er without corals,, but they do better in salted water for
sure. Ich at that SG is almost non exisitent and they look so much
more better. I routinely kept a school of mmollies at 1.026 sg for use
as live food for my lion fish and snowflake eel. I acclimate lots of
various fish sold as freshwater fish to sal****er and they do so m uch
better. ONe example is the green puffers and spotted and figure eight
puffers. They are great when acclimated and kept in 1.023 or greater
salt water..........I quite keeping mollies and swords mainly due to
their susecptibility of catching ICH.........then I found out about
keeping them in sal****er and its a totally different story
now........With salta or brackish water you do not have a lot of the
problems encountered with freshwater but do acquire a few new problems
in place of those you did not get, but its still well worth the effort
for keeping them in sal****er over freshwater.