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I have a 50 G tank which now contains 4 guppies, 2 male sailfin mollies, 2 silver lyretail females, 1 cremesicle lyretail, and 2 black mollies, plus about 30 4-week old molly fry behind a divider. Not realizing what a bad idea it is, I added 3 cory cats to this tank. A week later one of them was dead with one eye bulging out. About 5 days later, an orange molly who had been acting strange for 3 days died (no eyes popping out this time). Now, a week later my silver lyretail is basically sitting still in a secluded spot in the tank, not at the surface, about halfway down, but she does this ALL day, except when she feeds. She displayed some shimmying behavior, which I also noticed the other lyretails doing. She is still eating very well, and does not seem to have any other symptoms, no marks that I can see, etc. Of course with her being silver it is not easy to spot white marks.
Someone said it could be livebearer/molly disease and to add more salt and quick cure, as well as "ShI'm Stop" by Aquatronics, which I did. I moved my 2 cory cats, algae eater and dwarf gouramI to a 10 G tank before doing this treatment. All water tests are perfect, no ammonia, no nitrites, nitrates at 10. Temp was at 80, now I increased up to 82. These new conditions have been in place for 2 days. This did not change her behavior at all. I am out of ideas what the next step is. It terrifies me to think that it is some internal parasite or bacterial infection that can spread to all tank inhabitants....interestingly the fry are all acting perfectly well. Please help! I know many of you have experience with mollies. Thanks in advance.
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Someone said it could be livebearer/molly disease and to add more salt and quick cure, as well as "ShI'm Stop" by Aquatronics, which I did. I moved my 2 cory cats, algae eater and dwarf gouramI to a 10 G tank before doing this treatment. All water tests are perfect, no ammonia, no nitrites, nitrates at 10. Temp was at 80, now I increased up to 82. These new conditions have been in place for 2 days. This did not change her behavior at all. I am out of ideas what the next step is. It terrifies me to think that it is some internal parasite or bacterial infection that can spread to all tank inhabitants....interestingly the fry are all acting perfectly well. Please help! I know many of you have experience with mollies. Thanks in advance.
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