Hell's Angels not so hellish anymore...so far.

[ScorpiosWife]

Thanks Toten. The mollies seem to still be holding their ground, so for now, I'm set. Not too worried about the fry in the angel tank. I may, at some point, quarantine a female & let her go for it. I'm not looking to overpopulate, I just didn't want more than 1 male with less than 4 females. Gotta give a girl a break now and then!

Another thing I've noticed about my community tank... I knew the mollies liked the algae wafers but the first time I dropped one in there, it looked like I poked an anthill with a stick. MOB SCENE! Seriously! All of them love the algae wafers. Guppies, tetras, mollies & danios. After the first time I was afraid someone was going to get hurt in the frenzy, so I've since broken them up when I give them to them, which is about once every other day or so.

Tek, we only have 1 rainbow shark left. It can be seen in the video I posted of the angel tank earlier today in Fishography. Its roughly 4 inches long. We had 2 smaller ones in there for a few days, but lost 2 due to some freaky water thing that happened when I raised the temp and treated for Ich. One dove to his death on the way to the hospital tank and the other just didn't make it. The 2 that died chased each other constantly & were aggressive toward each other, which is why we added a PVC maze & the big flower pot so that they had places to hide from one another. The biggest one lived and it was never party to the aggressive behavior. No idea why. In a way I'm glad we only have 1 now. Its so much more at ease and not hiding in the PVC all the time.

[Tek]

Tek, we only have 1 rainbow shark left. It can be seen in the video I posted of the angel tank earlier today in Fishography. Its roughly 4 inches long. We had 2 smaller ones in there for a few days, but lost 2 due to some freaky water thing that happened when I raised the temp and treated for Ich. One dove to his death on the way to the hospital tank and the other just didn't make it. The 2 that died chased each other constantly & were aggressive toward each other, which is why we added a PVC maze & the big flower pot so that they had places to hide from one another. The biggest one lived and it was never party to the aggressive behavior. No idea why. In a way I'm glad we only have 1 now. Its so much more at ease and not hiding in the PVC all the time.

Thanks for the info, I will stick to one then. Even though the tank is now densely planted, the shark swims all over it and it looks like he is just itching for a fight
Yes I remember the unfortunate Ich incident. Yes, fish are sensitive to rapid water temp increases.

[ScorpiosWife]

Well this evening has been interesting. I did my hourly rounds and one of the molly females appeared to be missing her lips and was dead. After fishing her out, I checked everyone else & another one of the females is swimming around with her mouth stuck open. Literally stuck open, bottom jaw completely extended. Exactly like the dead one but she still has her lips. I'm not sure she will survive, let alone be able to eat. I just fed the community tank and everyone came running to dinner but her. I did some research and from what I'm reading, it's either:

A) something stuck in their mouths (but there isn't anything)
B) they ran into the tank or something in the tank REALLY hard at warp fish speed, or
C) they got beat up

I'm going with C unless someone else has had this happen and can tell me what is going on. The angels look innocent, as usual. The rainbow shark hasnt been one to pick on the others & the corys are in their usual line dance formation. I JUST checked on them at 8 and everyone was cool! I did another check at 8:30 and they're not cool anymore! Can anyone shed any light on this or do yall think the angels finally came up with a plot?

The other mollies are fine. All are eating (except her) and mister molly is busy boinking all the other female mollies in the community tank.