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dont buy balloon mollies.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
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it's because of how they were bred. their air bladder/swim bladder is what causes the balloon affect, it's hard enough for them to stay upright without being sick. also, don't put a goldfish in any less than thirty gallons, they don't 'grow to the size of their tank' they go through something called stunting. the body stops growing, the organs do not. it's jsut as painful as it sounds, and shortens the life expectancy from twenty plus years to a little less than ten, sometimes five years in extreme cases.
oh god so that's why my black marble mollies died and female guppies died. ;w; I thought they had some form of scale rot.
Back when I was living with my mom we had a 30 or 50 gallon tank(it was on a large stand so it was big) and we had a mix of hard breeding fire guppies (males were white orange and red and females were grey with a black and low fire blue tail) and some black and white marbled mollies. ;w; The mollies got bloated and passed on and that happened to two female guppies.
I also had a tank in my aquatic science class(loved it, had the same guppies and a molly) it was only a 10 or 20 gallon tank(had a large class so space was limited and she had a lot of 10 or 20 gallon tanks) and after a while I hardly saw my marbled molly any where and I looked and saw him hiding in the little coral covered cave decoration I had(same decorations were used from my old tank in my moms, all the fish had died so she decided to take a break from fish and I asked her to send me some of the décor) and after gently coaxing him out of it I saw how bloated he was. ;w; When he passed on I got sad(a couple days ago a friend of mine had died so it was a double whammy sadness since fish are pets and all pets I have are like family) and then some stupid bully made a rude comment about how much of a monster I was for letting the sick fish suffer. :T
Back when I was living with my mom we had a 30 or 50 gallon tank(it was on a large stand so it was big) and we had a mix of hard breeding fire guppies (males were white orange and red and females were grey with a black and low fire blue tail) and some black and white marbled mollies. ;w; The mollies got bloated and passed on and that happened to two female guppies.
I also had a tank in my aquatic science class(loved it, had the same guppies and a molly) it was only a 10 or 20 gallon tank(had a large class so space was limited and she had a lot of 10 or 20 gallon tanks) and after a while I hardly saw my marbled molly any where and I looked and saw him hiding in the little coral covered cave decoration I had(same decorations were used from my old tank in my moms, all the fish had died so she decided to take a break from fish and I asked her to send me some of the décor) and after gently coaxing him out of it I saw how bloated he was. ;w; When he passed on I got sad(a couple days ago a friend of mine had died so it was a double whammy sadness since fish are pets and all pets I have are like family) and then some stupid bully made a rude comment about how much of a monster I was for letting the sick fish suffer. :T
most likely diet issues if they were not bloated to begin with. or constipation, if you feed them the wrong diet, such as vegetation to carnivores and vice versa, they get constipated and can eventually rupture //not pleasant// the only thing i can really suggest for that would be cooked peas, with the skin removed, coax the fish to eat them, it's like a natural fishy laxative. the only other thing than that would be parasites. melafix and pimafix usually take care of that in a couple of weeks.
We fed them your regular tetra brand fish flakes. They got bloated, but never ruptured((I was responding to what you were saying about their organs continuing to grow and their bodies don't)) They've already passed sadly ;w; and we stopped doing aquariums. I'll keep this in mind the next time I decide to have mollies. ;w;
I had these kind of mollies. http://www.tropicalifish.com/v1/wp-.....old-marble.jpg
I had these kind of mollies. http://www.tropicalifish.com/v1/wp-.....old-marble.jpg
Mollies are hard to keep alive sometimes, they don't usually stunt though, it could have been internal infection or bloated swimbladders from a number of disorders, but i can tell you, next time you have issues like that and normal medication doesn't help, try melafix and pimafix for a week and see if that helps, if it does you can bet it's an infection. if not, then you will need to try feeding them shelled, cooked peas, mollies love them, so it won't be as hard to get them to eat them.
And they can be so crazy smart (when they're not being dumbasses.) I had eight medium Oscars in a huge display tank along with a number of specialty fish, including a 12" Florida Gar. The Oscars paired off as they're prone to do, but then one took sick. Because I worked in a crappy retail chain, I had no quiet room or recovery tank. I had no idea what to do with the sick one or what was wrong with it, and could only lightly treat the tank and see what happened.
The Oscar survived for almost three days and two nights. The ENTIRE TIME its partner defended it from the other fish. I came in on the last morning and learned that when the sick one couldn't stay up during the night and drifted to the bottom (24/7 store, if I'd seen that, I would have given it up for lost), the healthy Oscar actually lay on top of it so the other fish couldn't reach it.
All night.
I was very sad that I wasn't present when someone bought that fish a couple of weeks later to tell them about it.
The Oscar survived for almost three days and two nights. The ENTIRE TIME its partner defended it from the other fish. I came in on the last morning and learned that when the sick one couldn't stay up during the night and drifted to the bottom (24/7 store, if I'd seen that, I would have given it up for lost), the healthy Oscar actually lay on top of it so the other fish couldn't reach it.
All night.
I was very sad that I wasn't present when someone bought that fish a couple of weeks later to tell them about it.
yeah, we've treated ich a few times and usually the fish survive, but the balloon mollies have always bit the dust EVERY TIME.
Yeah, balloon mollies are kinda like pugs in that way i hear, their organs are all smooshed and inbreeding produces fucked up immune systems.
Thanks for your sympathy, and advice c: Thank god for google tho, it helped us treat a couple outbreaks. Pet stores prolly don't really give a shit lol.
Aha I'm glad you know your way around tho, it's good that there are people like you who legit care about the animals they sell c: props!
Yeah, balloon mollies are kinda like pugs in that way i hear, their organs are all smooshed and inbreeding produces fucked up immune systems.
Thanks for your sympathy, and advice c: Thank god for google tho, it helped us treat a couple outbreaks. Pet stores prolly don't really give a shit lol.
Aha I'm glad you know your way around tho, it's good that there are people like you who legit care about the animals they sell c: props!
I agree with this. whenever i buy fancy guppies, i tend to cross them with a few wild types a friend of mine raises, the long tails are hazards for them to swim, and the wild type guppies have higher birthing success rates, if a litter of guppy babies have a high concentration of bent spines or deformities, i generally feed the batch to a crayfish of mine. I won't bother keeping them alive to suffer, as for the gold fish types, the fancies are a pain in the ass, they're pond fish, no matter how cute and tiny they look. and they're ammonia factories. i tried keeping one fantail in a fifty five, the freakin' filter couldn't even keep up with the bioload, and forget using plants to offset the ammonia output, they're grazers.
I breed guppies and endlers using wild types to outcross every three generations to prevent mutations, keep in mind, what you get in petstores are the culls from the breeders, and most are just bred for quantity rather than quality. I can't tell you how many female guppies bought from a store that i've lost after giving birth to one liter due to anatomical deformities.
I breed guppies and endlers using wild types to outcross every three generations to prevent mutations, keep in mind, what you get in petstores are the culls from the breeders, and most are just bred for quantity rather than quality. I can't tell you how many female guppies bought from a store that i've lost after giving birth to one liter due to anatomical deformities.
I quaranteen any angelfish i get from the petstore or anywhere else and treat them with melafix and pimafix. works EVERY time. never had one die from the disease. I just lost one to a pH spike though. tap water got fucked somehow and i didn't test the alkalinity before dumping it in after treating. only one fish showed symptoms. a freaking koi angelfish, they're always the worst when it comes to getting sick.
What I suggest instead of not buying them is getting them from a fish ONLY shop. places that KNOW what they are doing.
this is a very easly treated problem, and its not really the fishes but your water. I suggest you do water changes often to make sure they are with in the correct levels for mollys. They are semi bracish water so if you just use normal water they really do not do as well as they should.
this is a very easly treated problem, and its not really the fishes but your water. I suggest you do water changes often to make sure they are with in the correct levels for mollys. They are semi bracish water so if you just use normal water they really do not do as well as they should.
Thought I'd echo the Pimafix/Melafix recommendations going on here, with an additional (and completely bizarre) addition: Pimafix seriously smells. I mean, it's a great antifungal and I've used it to great effect, but Pimafix smells not entirely unlike nutmeg, and it does so quite strongly. This is probably because it's derived from west Indian bay trees, so more accurately, it smells like bay rum. As such, the one drawback to using it is that whatever room your aquarium is in will smell like that for a few days after use, or longer if you mess up and spill a little. That's not too much of a side effect for people who like the scent, but if you don't, it can become absolutely terrible after a while. Other than that, however, the one-two punch of Pimafix/Melafix hasn't failed to work as advertised--at least not that I can remember at the moment.
Also, the blue stuff being talked about earlier is either copper sulfate or methylene blue, both of which are useful for killing fish parasites like ich. :P Thought I'd mention it.
Also, the blue stuff being talked about earlier is either copper sulfate or methylene blue, both of which are useful for killing fish parasites like ich. :P Thought I'd mention it.
As a breeder of guppies, I know this all too well -___- although I've managed to get rid of it, took me three generations, lost almost all my good breeding stock, but now I've got a small group that's completely free of it, I took the babies out as newborn and they didn't have time to catch the sickness, then put them in a separate tank, and tadaa, with a little work I was rid of it.
dude my nice sailfin balloon mollly after 6 months of living with all the same fish - one day went nutz!!!! he started beating the crap out of my angelfish which was like 3 times its size.
he had plenty girls and places to hide. so i tried everything, changing the set up, changing number of males and female, NOTHING worked. eventually my poor angle passed even though i separated and was trying to heal him :( had to bring the molly to the pet store, was just too damn aggressive for my tank after it went nutz
he had plenty girls and places to hide. so i tried everything, changing the set up, changing number of males and female, NOTHING worked. eventually my poor angle passed even though i separated and was trying to heal him :( had to bring the molly to the pet store, was just too damn aggressive for my tank after it went nutz
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