lokky.funky

Hi,

I'm Lokesh and I live in the southern part of India in a city called Chennai. The temperatures here sore to around 40 degree Celsius in summer. The winter is not too cold either. To summarize, I live in a tropical country.

I'm a novice in Fish keeping. I have just started a couple of weeks ago with a 7 gallon tank with Undergravel filter and a few plastic plants. I added 12 mollies (5 white, 5 black and 2 orange) without proper cycling.

However I have maintained an even smaller tank when I was in school, with very minimum success.

Before going through these useful sites, I'm started with my new aquarium. To my annoyance, I have lost 50% of my fishes.

I dumped around 12 fishes into the 7 gallon tank and for the first couple of days, everything went right. A couple of fishes even let out around 25 fries, which I have kept in a separate cement tank. they are all doing well.

But the bigger ones started to leave me one by one after I fed them some live worms. I'm not sure whether the worms triggered the death of my fishes.

I thought that changing Water would stop this, but till yesterday, I have lost 7 fishes and my tank only has 5 fishes now.

I could find the fins turning white for a few of my black mollies and diagnosed it as fin rot and added some blue medicine to the aquarium. Nothing has improved.

Yesterday, as per a local pet shopkeeper's advice, I added Iodine-less salt water to my aquarium. The black mollies I discussed above have some whiteness in their anal fins. But they are not dull. Will they improve? Will the anal fin disease be cured?

Please help and save my fishes.

boff

Hi, have you tested the water for ammonia and nitrite ask your local fish shop to test it, and post it back here. What was the medicine called we cant help if we dont know what its called .You might not loose any more fish because there are less in your tank but it might be to late for them ,try not to feed them to much as this will add to the problem if it is a water problem so do the test and let us know .

Butterfly

Your fish are dieing from ammonia poisoning. When the tank hasn't cycled there is no beneficial bacteria present to change the ammonia to a less harmful chemical. also 12 fish in a seven gallon tank is way overstocked. Sorry. Heres a good place to get your tank on the right track. http://www.fishlore.com/Forum/index.php?topic=620.0 let us if you need anything.by the way
WELCOME TO FISHLORE!!
Carol

lokky.funky

Unfortunately, I'm unable to get the test kit from my local shops. Even if it is available, it is too costly.

Currently, there are 5 mollies in my 7 gallon tank. I feed them some pellet kind of food. I don't know what exactly it is. I've limited the feet to only 10 pellets thrice a day.

They are doing well now. Hope the nitrogen cycle is complete. Moreover there are only 5 fishes in the 7 gallon tank. That would probably help.

Please comment.