Very buoyant mollies

In message , Nikki Casali
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Are the fish bloated at all? If so they may need medicine for fish
bloat. One is fungus eliminator by jungle. Good luck and later, sounds
like your fish are o.k. after all.


Well, they are still experiencing a mild bloating. In the morning they
are fine, but towards the night they become more bloated and are prone
to bobbing on the surface. Strange how it has affected just the three
white mollies and not the black. Is it caused by a fungus? I can switch
on the UV lamp if that would help.

sounds remarkably similar to fancy goldfish being unable to sort their
swimbladder out properly. With gf, any dried food needs to be soaked in
tankwater before feeding, and as much live food as possible & veggies
should be fed. Mine are also very keen on algae wafers just to keep
aquatic greenery in the diet (though at the moment they are happy
guzzling the green hair algae in the tank, gah.)

Swimbladder problems tend to happen with overbred fish, so if these are
fancy mollies that might be it - I don't have any experience of keeping
them, but I don't think it could hurt to try playing about with their
diet a bit.
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sophie

sophie wrote:
In message , Nikki Casali
writes



wrote:

Are the fish bloated at all? If so they may need medicine for fish
bloat. One is fungus eliminator by jungle. Good luck and later, sounds
like your fish are o.k. after all.


Well, they are still experiencing a mild bloating. In the morning they
are fine, but towards the night they become more bloated and are prone
to bobbing on the surface. Strange how it has affected just the three
white mollies and not the black. Is it caused by a fungus? I can
switch on the UV lamp if that would help.


sounds remarkably similar to fancy goldfish being unable to sort their
swimbladder out properly. With gf, any dried food needs to be soaked in
tankwater before feeding, and as much live food as possible & veggies
should be fed. Mine are also very keen on algae wafers just to keep
aquatic greenery in the diet (though at the moment they are happy
guzzling the green hair algae in the tank, gah.)

Swimbladder problems tend to happen with overbred fish, so if these are
fancy mollies that might be it - I don't have any experience of keeping
them, but I don't think it could hurt to try playing about with their
diet a bit.

I've been reading this and scratching my head since bloating caused by
internal infections isn't usually worse at night. Diet makes a lot of
sense. Grow some hair algae, Nikki! ;-)

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__ Elaine T __
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Elaine T wrote:
I've been reading this and scratching my head since bloating caused by
internal infections isn't usually worse at night. Diet makes a lot of
sense. Grow some hair algae, Nikki! ;-)

The SAE take care of that too well. The mollies seem to like a bit of
zuchinni. I'll coax them to eat a bit more of it, if it doesn't give
them flatulence instead, lol.

Nikki