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Do my Mollies Have Fungus?
By lukasbobjim from the Lukasbobjim department, Section Ask Guppylog Posted on Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 12:21:39 PM PST Tags: (all tags)

I bought about 4 Black Mollies from my LFS and a couple have white spots but the two that do quite big and seem to be old.

Is it fungus or some other kind of disease if so plz tell me the symptoms and the treatment I can use to treat them with.

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Do my Mollies Have Fungus? | 4 comments (4 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Could be ich. Google it under fish disease (none / 0) (#2)
by Angelee on Mon Jan 05, 2004 at 11:52:27 PM PST

A couple of questions to ask:
Are the spots fluffy or cotton like?
If yes it isn't ich.
How big are the white spots and where are they?
This will give us a clue as to what it is too.
How is fishy's appetite and behavior?
Lethargic, stays toward the top, or bottom, hides, etc..
Are any of the spots on the head, kind of resembling a saddle?
These might help decipher what type of disease.
Let me know how things are and what you find out.
See ya
"The Rocky Mountain Gupster" ANGELEE

Your mollies may have fungus BUT (none / 0) (#1)
by unclescott on Mon Jan 05, 2004 at 07:08:51 PM PST

more likely they have ich or white spot disease or Ichthyophthirius. Do a google search under those terms. Also, if your are still unsure, do a google or AltaVista image search using those words.

If it seems that your mollies (which are very vulnerable to ich) might have developed it after being a little chilled or stressed on the way home, boogie to your petshop with great haste - don't speed ;) - and get their ich medicine. Apply as suggested.

A little salt (over priced aquarium salt, marine salt, pickling salt, cattle feed - sun dried salt, NOT table salt) wouldn't hurt. Also, mollies can take 80 degrees F. Did you have other fishes with them?

I would almost predict that new mollies would get ich this time of the year. That is one reason why your quarantine tank is such a great idea.

later maybe compare notes with:

A "Quick" Ich Update.
Posted on Thu Oct 9th, 2003 at 21:35:15 CST

Good luck

Thank you Angelee! (none / 0) (#3)
by unclescott on Tue Jan 06, 2004 at 08:04:45 PM PST

Thank you for asking for an inventory of illness characteristics. Then lukasbobjim can better discover whether the mollies have fungus, velvet, ich or something else.

The snap assumption that is must be ich (based on the spots comment) does both the mollies and lukasbobjim a dis-service. My apologies LBJ.

Tunnel vision isn't all that useful. Single explanations for things do sell a lot of products (fish meds, people meds, political agendas) when we get lazy (mentally anyway) and look for the quick fix. ;)

All the best!
uncle

who is a better person for reading your post. :)

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They are under her belly! (none / 0) (#4)
by lukasbobjim on Wed Jan 07, 2004 at 09:22:18 AM PST

But they are more like a spotty patch with just a few little white dots on her body. Thx for the help.

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Do my Mollies Have Fungus? | 4 comments (4 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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