Please help identify the illness

Good morning everyone.

Please help me to diagnose what my fish is currently going through.
Molly started with white cotton like mold on eye. Ive been treating the entire tank with Qrify general purpose remedy against fungal, parasitic and bacterial diseases. Day 5 of treatment and this morning she is worse. Bad thing is my male swordtail are now also infected.

Please help me to diagnose what this is and how to get rid of it.

All tank readings are within spec. I did however run a 5 day bacteria cycle with Stability. It seems like the problem started during this period.

Thanks in advance.

 

Hi Ivan , Have you tested your water and are you able to share pic of your water parameters ? (ammonia , nitrite and nitrates)

 

Good morning Abrar.

I don't have pictures with me right now but, the ammonia levels are almost always non present, Nitrite also. I did have problems with Nitrates exceeding 25ppm and therefore started to add life plants. I don't have a ph test strip, should I get one?

Can the perimeters cause these white spots.

Thanks for the reply Abrar.

 

To me it looks like they both have different issues, Molly from your description sounds like a fungus and that sword looks to have ich. I would turn up the temperature to the maximum your fish can manage and treat with seachem paraguard. Just make sure you oxygenate the water as warmer temperatures mean less oxygen

 

Good morning Shabir.

Thank you so much for this information. Both these fish were bought from a aqarium shop, when I went back for advise after the outbreak the clerk told me its caused by the sudden heat rise we are currently experiencing. Which I find highly unbelievable.

Anyways, I am not planning to add fish again before buying a extra tank for the purpose of quarantine.

Do I need to wait before treating the fish with Seachem paraguard? Or do I empty the tank and go ahead straight away?

Again thank you so much for the advice.

 

Hi a new day.

The tank runs at a constant 25 degrees Celsius, ive added a aqarium heater for a much larger tank as it allows for better control. Both the heater and thermometer (furthest point from heater) reads 25 degrees Celsius.

Thank you so much for all the advice.
I need as much information as possible as I am fairly new at this.

 

Thanks man. I really do appreciate all of the assistance.
Its just the Mollies, sword tails and neon tetras. Very little number of fish for the tank. Could the low PH cause stress of which resulted in
the outbreaks? Ill adjust the heater slowly down to 23 over the weekend while medicating.