r/MollyFish

Hello humans, we recently got fish and we have this white spotted molly. Just now while cleaning up after a water change, I noticed these white spots on its fins.

It's only on this one though, I looked at the rest of them and none have it.

The fish is active, it's eating, it's swimming around, it's nibbling at the algae on the plants/driftwood and gravel when I'm not feeding, but I'm really concerned for it. I don't know if it had these spots the entire time since I didn't pay a lot of attention to it until now or if this is a sudden sickness.

I'm trying my best to take care of the fish as the rest of my family can't be bothered to.

I have yet to figure out what my parameters are like, as the test strips that were handed to me at the store don't have a reference picture included.

If somebody could help me with this I'd be very glad. I'm mildly panicking right now.

Bought this beauty as a female... But she is a he, right?! 🧐🤓

My black molly just gave birth a month ago to three fry (yay!) and a couple of days ago, I saw her pushing again. But she hasn't released any new fry and it looks as if she has a little transparent tail sticking out. Should I be worried? Is there anything I can do????

Both female black and golds are now HEAVILY pregante 🫪 there’s 3 dalmatians in there too, neither female is pregnant YET (that i have noticed)

(excuse the mess on the gravel, vid was taken just before gravel cleaning)

besos x

Seeing Odds sailfins made me miss mine lol. Dude was a stud!

Excuse the algae and the hungry bettas, me and my boyfriend got these nine Balloon Molly’s from a friend before we knew about their quality of life issues and how they came to be but have been trying to make sure they have as good of a life as possible, anyways we need to be able to tell their genders as to not create more of the little guys in the future so any help is greatly appreciated!

I suspect dropsy, so I immediately put it in temporary container with methylene blue and some salt. Then later on it released those yellow egg like thing. Idk what are those? Any advice?

Rare moment when Speckle Moo Moo, New Year’s Day Confetti, Anna Pumpkin, Elsa, & Molly are all together 🥰

I have two female mollies and one male. One of the females is big and the other one is smaller. The smaller one has a swollen belly and I don’t know if it’s from food or if she is carrying babies. I fed them fresh food, the frozen kind… she didn’t seem this big before. Because they are half black, I can’t tell if there is a gravid spot. Can you help me figure out if she is pregnant, and if so, how long it will be before she has the babies?

thought id share my experience for new people or people who wants to try out some fish food.

Lets get the Elephant out the room

Fenbendazole Flakes and Antiparasitic Flakes = For Quarantine ONLY. do not try and feed it to them as a staple. YOUR FISH WILL GET SKINNY (everytime i feed these to fish who i suspect have internal parasites they tend to get skinny but regain their weight after treatment.

Fancy Guppy by Hikari = I feed this to fish who needs to gain weight or Molly females who just gave birth/Fry (once big enough). 50% protein helps with recovery and helps them gain more weight. I wouldnt recommend this as a staple just because it is tiny and it could get very messy. 9/10

Magic Small Fish feed by Aquarium Co-op = man these are great for fry this is the reason why my fry are growing very quickly with 55% protein cant beat it this is my fry staple (Obv not better than bbs). 10/10

Bug Bites Tropical formula = this is a food I offer to shy fish it tends to sink very quickly this food helps entice skittish fish especially if a molly fish is hiding (its watching you it just doesnt want to come out). Its a very niche fish food and i feel like theres better options (great supplement food).8/10

Easy Community Floating pellets by Aquarium Co-op = Another fantastic food, When I was raising my Silver fry this was the staple but later on opted to magic fish feed. this stuff takes awhile to sink. this is the food that i usually medicate with (when i didnt have medicated fish food). I would soak this in with whatever medications with garlic and it would do the trick. this was the food I was using to combat Camallanus worms soaked in levamisole. i wouldnt recommend it as a staple because when i was using it as a staple for my silver fry i had to retrain them back on looking for food everywhere. this food will make your fish think that food is always at the top if used as a staple. 9/10

New Life Spectrum Tropical pellets = I have heard a lot of good stuff about this fish food but when it comes to my mollies they are very underwhelming. most of my fish wont eat this but the ones that do usually just eats them and they have a “meh” reaction. they dont necessarily go crazy for this but just like the Bug Bites

theres so much good stuff in this fish food but my fish just dont eat them (great supplement food). 8/10

Micro Pellets by Hikari = I prefer this than the micro wafers that Hikari also carry, Just because this fish food makes the fish color Pop and its easy for the fish to eat it (be careful ive overfed fish with this fish food before). 8/10

Micro Wafers by Hikari = Hikari makes a lot of good fish food but this fish food is a miss for me. Although my fish eats it eventually, Its hard for them to eat it because of their mouth shape they just have a hard time with it just like New Life Spectrum Tropical pellets, could work better in a community set up if your mollies are very aggressive with food. this fish food needs to get soften up by the water before my molly tries to even eat it. 7.5/10

Vibra Bites by Hikari = Also heard the hype with this fish food and my fish absolutely adores this. when Im lazy and I dont want to thaw some frozen food i chuck these in and let it do its thing. Now this food is also amazing for shy fish this is one of the fish food i offer to new fish after theyve been to the medicated fish food. would not recommend as a staple. simply for the reason that this fish food is shaped like a worm and youre fish might not take anymore fish food. 8.5/10

Tetra Algae wafers = the tetra algae wafers in my opinion does its job but theres better options when it comes to Algae wafers my fish gets uninterested after a while and ive never had this issue with a different brand it does its job i guess as a supplement food. 7/10

sinking wafers by hikari = I dont really know why i have this food but I use it with the Algae wafers as a treat and Variety. Ive had mollies live off of this for a week as an experiment and my mollies got very skinny. but what was i expecting when it wasnt for mollies in the first place so i do admit its my fault but they love grazing on it. 7.5/10

Reef Nutrition TDO = I will be honest this is my staple. I was picking out new fish food to try out in my lfs and i came across these. at first i thought i was just going to use it as a supplement food. 50% protein, its for marine fish (REEF NUTRITION with my naivete at work), its intended for corals whatever right. right? anyways this fish food is packed with Algae matter and some other goodies sounds like a match made in heaven for my omnivore mollies and my fish go absolutely bonkers for this fish food, its high in protein and it helps with their color and have a lot of plant matter? sold. 10/10

In conclusion always try and get a variety of fish food because just like us (even though my fish eats better than me😭) you never know what vitamins our fish are lacking so I truely encourage everyone to have a good food cabinet. I hope this helped or atleast gave you an idea of what to feed. thanks for reading

I bought some black mollys and this one seems to have snuck into the bag. At first, just looked silver. Recently I’ve been noticing a neon glow in her belly. New to aquariums so was just seeing if anyone knows what this could be. Also if anyone can advise what type of Molly she is.

Thanks!!

At the shop, they sold them to me as one male and two females, is this male?

Hello! I’ve been searching for what could be causing my Molly’s bloat and it seems like the other pics that look like mine are due to pregnancy… but one’s a male!

I have 8 mollies, 5 are gold dust lyretails that I got in January. 3 of the five got somewhat bloated immediately and have remained bloated. We have angelfish in the tank so I wouldn’t know if there were fry that were getting eaten and I have no experience with fry or pregnancy. I’m pretty certain that one of my bloated guys is male though (and the other 2 are female, one more severely bloated than the other.) I don’t know what to make of this since it’s been so consistent and they aren’t lethargic or clamping. ChatGPT said dose their food with MetroPlex and it seems harmless enough if it is actually not a parasite but what are your thoughts? I should fast the tank more strictly but I feel sorry for my other fish… (I know that’s not a great trait here.) I also have some Siamese algae eaters who get the mollies’ leftovers which as you can imagine doesn’t look like much.

Is this an emergency or an opportunity to correct before they take a downward turn, are they fine just overfed.. help!

It seems to me 2 of the bloatey ones have some paleness to them like they’re almost translucent in places including the distended bellies and also on top of their eye (like where an eyebrow might be) and lips but again I don’t know if it’s a big deal or not.

Thank you for any tips!

Big Silver male. I got him today hes from a pond. Idk what hes lineage is but I know hes probably a mutt but he resembles more of a P. Velifera

Albino Male. Hes in my retirement tank i got him because if that stunning sail. I now have him in a conditioning tank and im trying to fatten him up. trying not to burn him out

Snack time closeup shoot..☺️☺️☺️

we noticed this growth on our molly when she was a fry, but she only had a small darker orange one on her “chin”, but as she’s grown up she’s also developed one on top of her head that’s grown too. she seems fine, she eats and swims will. just wondering what it is!

we’ve lovingly named her megamind

I love watching her..hmmmm so cute 🥰🥰🥰