Bunnylova4eva
Well-Known Member
So I got a male butterfly molly about a week ago. Today its been shaking alot. I really about 'shimmying' Is that what it is, and if so, should I be adding something to the water?
Thanks,
~Mia
Thanks,
~Mia
99.9% of the time a fish is acting weird its a water quality issue. Do you have test kits to test for ammonia and nitrite? Those are the 2 things in your water you should worry about. Both tests should test 0 at all times.
Leaving the water for a week before adding fish did nothing unless you were fishless cycling it during that time. I'm assuming you didn't do that and since your fish have been in the tank for a week now that your tank is starting to go through the nitrogen cycle.
How many fish did you add? What size tank? Have you been doing water changes during this start up phase?
I would recommend buying an ammonia and nitrite test kits. Testing the water daily and doing water changes as needed. That could mean daily or even twice daily water changes, depending on what your test kit readings are. The nitrogen cycle can take 4-6 weeks and this time is very dangerous for your fish as the water has high levels of ammonia and nitrite. So do your best to keep the water levels down and hope your fish make it through. Don't add any more until your levels settle down and stabilize.
I was considering doing that actually, I didn't know where to get the divider though. I ended up calling and going there, so they swapt out that fish for a new {much more gentle} Molly. Its a black molly and then I got a gold dust molly as well. So the three so far all seem to get along fine.If the nipping gets really bad you can always put in a mesh-plastic divider.. I had to do that since I had a tank with a betta and other community fish, and he was kept in the slower current far end with the others (tetras and loaches and cories) in the larger faster current part.
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