Tips for helping this molly

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I’ve had my eye on this for a bit now and no improvements. One of my mollies has been looking thin and seems to have more labored swimming (I’m sure the tail being chewed by puffers didn’t help that). It’s similar to what I would expect out of internal parasites, though the poop is normal. When eating it’s hard to tell if it’s getting any or just spitting it all out, but I’m leaning towards the latter.
Here are some pics:
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Should I try with metroplex and see if it improves. If it’s a parasite or disease, it’s definitely not something I want spreading to my puffers.
 
Separate and quarantine. I’d try some triple sulfa and metronidazole.
 
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Well…crap

I get the qt all setup, look at the tank, see the molly swimming around (weakly like it’s on its last legs), move the metro to the qt and when I get back to the tank to take it out…the molly is completely missing. I searched all over and nothing…
I’m hoping it shows up later, but I got a bad feeling the loaches found it first.
If so, should I treat the dt tank with metro preemptively or wait if symptoms occur in the other fish?
 
Deadeye said:
Well…crap

I get the qt all setup, look at the tank, see the molly swimming around (weakly like it’s on its last legs), move the metro to the qt and when I get back to the tank to take it out…the molly is completely missing. I searched all over and nothing…
I’m hoping it shows up later, but I got a bad feeling the loaches found it first.
If so, should I treat the dt tank with metro preemptively or wait if symptoms occur in the other fish?
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Scratch that, I found it and managed to get it into the qt. I don’t have triple sulfa, but metro is currently running.
It doesn’t look good, but fingers crossed.
 
Unfortunately the molly has died in qt.
By the body, I found this:
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Any idea what kind of worm I’m looking at and if this is something I’m gonna need to treat the dt for?
 
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Will do, is levamisole the way to go here? Or prazi?
 
If it was spitting it’s food, getting bloated (not gravid), and you see red worms coming out of it after it died, I’d guess it’s capillaria.

That doesn’t look like camanallus but you can rule that out easily by checking your other fish to see if there are tiny red worms coming out of their vents.

Either way, both types of nematodes frequently affect livebearers and both are treated the same way.

Get your hands on levamisole and treat the whole tank.
 
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