sirdarksol

(Sorry, I couldn't resist the alliteration)

Anyway, I recently lost a molly to odd conditions. Two of my mollies were getting thin while the third was getting really, really fat.

I started feeding the tank a bit more than I normally would, and spreading the food around the surface. Bad for the tank, but made it easier for all of the fish to feed. It seemed that everyone was getting food, and I patted myself on the back.

A day or two later, one of the skinny mollies didn't respond to "feeding call" (I tap twice on the glass top of the tank before opening it to feed them). I looked all over the tank (The center of the tank is mostly hiding places, making this difficult) and found a little fishy corpse.

Since then, I think I've figured out what happened. The big molly ignores the remaining skinny one right after I feed, but within about 10 seconds of the skinny one getting to the surface, she turns and chases it back into the Java moss. I've been taking some pretty extreme measures to make sure the remaining skinny one gets food (down to reaching into the tank and placing a piece of algae wafer, which he seems to love, right in front of him).

I think that part of the problem was that the fish store screwed up and gave me two males and one female when I asked for the reverse, and so she was sick of being pestered after she got pregnant.

Good news is that I will (hopefully) have fry in the next week or so.

Gargoyle

I seem to always have one or two bully fish... I seem to find creative ways of getting even with them though.. LOL!!!

But no deaths so far from bully fish.. Fingers crossed