What's Wrong With My Tetra?

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Re: What's wrong with my tetra?
« Reply #20 on: March 01, 2020, 10:00:30 PM »
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Following on from Sue's good advice, your GH or dH of 10 (assuming it's a reliable test you've used - test strips are notoriously inaccurate on this, for example) equates to 178 ppm.  In that case, your water would actually be ok (ie not too hard) for neon tetras.  However, your water is actually too soft for mollies which might account for its early demise, and you may well find the others follow suit as inappropriate water affects their immune system and in turn can result in premature disease/death and them not fulfilling their life expectancy - I certainly wouldn't get any more of them.

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Re: What's wrong with my tetra?
« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2020, 08:52:32 PM »
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On the matter of hardness I've gone on the advice of specific fish care guides which give a general hardness of 10-25dkh for Mollys. My API test kit instructions reads 6-11 range for mollys. Despite the not ideal hardness, the mollys have had babies.

Thanks for the good info and advice. If I get anymore fish I will check suitable hardness.

I completed the 5 day Myxazin and the tetras have improved. The white ends of all the fins are disappearing. The lumps on the tetras are noticeably smaller.


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Re: What's wrong with my tetra?
« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2020, 09:01:12 PM »
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I don't know where you have looked but the site with the most reliable information gives the hardness range for mollies as 15 to 30 dH. Mollies do suffer more than most hard water fish if the hardness is not high enough, often suffering from something called 'the shimmies'.

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