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My two black mollies have ich some kind of bad, but I have read many places that fish with ich tend to be inactive and not eat. I am sitting as I type this and watching as all the fish in my tank eat a healthy meal of flake. Also in the tank are two guppies, a guppie fry (which I will address in another thread) and a pleco whom looks simply awful. His eye is white and his tailfin is damaged, but I'm not sure how much of that was from the crab I had in my tank for a short while (he ate 10 of my guppies, so... yeah.)

Thusfar I have changed about 50% of the water and put in about a tablespoon and a half of cooking salt (I checked and there is no ammonia/ammonium...)

Now I'm very new to the aquarium world, and I was wondering what else I needed to do to treat this funk, and how long it will take until I see results. I'm super attached to my larger female mollie, aptly named Catastrophie, and don't want to lose her. Any and all help is greatly appreciated as I want all of my fish to lead healthy happy lives, and hope to add many more fish to my tank.


Here's just a little bit of aquarium information if that helps at all...
10 Gallon glass tank
No heater
Dual filters and an air stone
1 Male Black Mollie
1 Female Black Mollie
2 Guppies of unknown gender...
1 Plecostomus
1 Guppy Fry I have no idea what to do about.
Somewhere in there I believe there is a baby snail... upon tossing all my fish in my new tank the guppies and snail both had babies.......

I'm so overwhelmed! :broke:

just put 1tbsp of aquarium salt per 10 gallons.

that will fix the problem.

thanks
JR

You might also raise the temp to just over 80 degrees.

have you tried melafix, have you been taking carbon out of filter?
and Im not sure about the cooking salt, Ive always used aquarium salt. But I use the melafix, and I have never lost a fish to ich. but it is very potent and if u try it, only use what the directions say to use

Thanks for the help. My fish are active, although still have some signs of ich, but it has only been about 12 hours since I changed the water and gave them salt and whatnot. I lost my pleco, but he was so stressed from having a crab chase him around all the time that I was somewhat expecting it. The water is MUCH clearer now, and everything is looking good again. I even noticed some substantial growth with my wild little guppie fry.