So I have a black male molly in my tank that has a thick, opaque thing hanging out of him. I've never seen anything like it. He's acting completely normal, and it was hell as usual to catch him. It's water change day and I just noticed he had this thing hanging off of him. I don't pay attention to the fish when I feed them in the morning, so I don't know when this happened today, but he definitely didn't have it hanging off him yesterday. It also looks like the scales along his belly are slightly raised and I'm not sure it they always looked like that.
First two pictures are the string object, third picture is an attempt to show the scales. Tank values under pictures.
pH:~8.3
Ammonia: inbetween 0 - 0.25 (closer to 0)
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 40 ppm
Tank Size: 20 long
Tank Age: set up May 2016
Tank Mates: 1 black female molly, 1 gold dust female molly, 7 guppy females, 1 male guppy, 3 assassin snails, ~7 ghost shrimp
Just added 3 of the female guppies and the 3 assassin snails Thursday Dec 8.
Any responses are greatly appreciated! I raised this guy from a fry and I love him a lot, so I'd like to help him out if I can.
First two pictures are the string object, third picture is an attempt to show the scales. Tank values under pictures.
pH:~8.3
Ammonia: inbetween 0 - 0.25 (closer to 0)
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 40 ppm
Tank Size: 20 long
Tank Age: set up May 2016
Tank Mates: 1 black female molly, 1 gold dust female molly, 7 guppy females, 1 male guppy, 3 assassin snails, ~7 ghost shrimp
Just added 3 of the female guppies and the 3 assassin snails Thursday Dec 8.
Any responses are greatly appreciated! I raised this guy from a fry and I love him a lot, so I'd like to help him out if I can.