So I've noticed one of my mollies today now has it's eye hanging out. Another one of my mollies seems to have some sort of whitish patches kind of on it's skin. I'm thinking it's a bacterial infection and I'm wondering if it can be transferred to the other fish in my tank? If it can be well then I'll treat the whole tank but if I just have to treat the affected fish then I'll move them to my other, smaller tank. Thanks for the help.
Bacterial Infection?
- Thread starter smithj427
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Columnaris is a common bacterial infection caused by gram-negative bacteria. Use furan 2 or maracyn for this case. Please provide more detailssuch as the tank water conditions, foods, tankmates, etc.
No chance of a pic because the molly missing an eye died and the with other ones since they're dalmation you can only see the whitness to them cus it's slightly raised when they're up against the light you can make it out. And my sister has the camera out of town.
I did some tests last night and my tank parameters are
Ammonia- 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate- 25
Ph 7.5
Temp 79-80.5
oh and it's a 46 gal.
I did some tests last night and my tank parameters are
Ammonia- 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate- 25
Ph 7.5
Temp 79-80.5
oh and it's a 46 gal.
forgot the foods, well I'm not sure all the brands but there's some bloodworms, tubifex, algea wafers, hikari sinking wafers, oh and betta bits. I don't feed them all this all at once but switch it up here and there.
After doing some research of my own this definetly fits the discription. It also says it can cause some yellow/brown spots which I saw on my mollies and just figured it was just some gold flecks on them. I also read it's higly contagious so I'm guessing I should treat the whole tank then right?
After doing some research of my own this definetly fits the discription. It also says it can cause some yellow/brown spots which I saw on my mollies and just figured it was just some gold flecks on them. I also read it's higly contagious so I'm guessing I should treat the whole tank then right?