It first started with a marble molly coming up with popeye... I qted him into a hospital tank and treated the popeye. After the treatment period his popeye appeared to go away, but I kept him seperated for another two or three weeks. During the period he was sick he seemed to have lost weight and wasn't very active. I thought perhaps being seperated from his tank mates might have had him depressed so after about a total of 3 weeks to a month of being seperated from the main tank I place him back with the others.

He still isn't active... he doesn't really move out from under some plants unless its feeding time, then he may or he may not even respond to the food. His weight hasn't improved either. I'm assuming that he must be eating enough to stay alive, but he is just so skinny and inactive, its worry-some.

Then a week ago, I noticed my lovely Cremesicle Lyretail had a curve in her spine, she was barely able to move her rear fin and was sort of flopping around as she tried to swim. Presently, she appears to be getting better. Her spine is almost back to being straight.

And lastly, my Silver Lyretail with occassionally seclude herself from everyone behind other plants in the tank, opposite from where the Marble hides. When she does that I almost think she is dead because he barely looks like she's even breathing. But after about an hour or two, she'll be back to normal swimming around with the others.

The other 4 mollies in the tank all seem to be okay and not acting strange in any way. After reading the signs of Fish TB, I'm naturally a little nervous about it. Not just because of it being contagious to humans but I don't like the idea of possibly having to euthanize my fish and having to start all over again.

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