Angel and Salt gone, but not forgotten!

[krzekds]

Our lyretail molly had to be put down last night. When I went to feed the fish I noticed that one of her eyes was popped out further than the other one. I did a quick google search and found out it was a kidney infection. How do they get that? I read that most fish don't survive, so we put her out of her misery.

2 weeks ago we had to put down a dalmation molly. She was acting crazy. Swimming upside down and sideways, doing loop-di-doos and cork screws down to the bottom of the tank. Kids said she was just doing tricks.

 

[nobody]

Sorry about your loss. Sounds like your lyretail probably had pop-eye and the dalmation had swimming bladder disease. Although I could be wrong. I'm not sure the survival rate on the eye disease, but swimming bladder is something that doesn't seem to be cureable being that it kills quickly.

 

[krzekds]

Should I be concerned about my other fish? The dalmation was quite comical to watch, but yet sad because we knew she was not right.

 

[Helena21]

I hate pop-eye. Its not meant to be contagious but when one of my bristlenose plecs got it, i added some melafix but he died. Altogether 4 of my bristlenoses died, one after the other. I think pop-eye is cureable but i dont think i got the right medicine. I used melafix, which says it cures pop-eye, but im my case it didnt . What makes my situation ever more annoying is that those bristlenoses are the fry from the parents which i bred. One of them was obviously a 'he' and he was just getting his bristles, and then he died
I think pop-eye can be caused by poor water quality, and the tank which the Bristlenoses were in, i didnt do alot of w/c's so that could have caused it. But i did one today
Anyway, if i were you i'd do a waterchange just so the water is in top condition

 

[krzekds]

Sorry to hear that. I'd be alittle upset too. But I do a 10% w/c every week like clock work. On the 19th I did a 50% w/c. I check the nitrite and ammonia 1/2 way through the week and their always good.