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The fish has been acclimated to salt water for two weeks. The fish is in a small quarantine tank. Using API General Cure, CopperSafe, and adding garlic extract to the food cured long white poop disease. However, it's bloated stomach wont go away. What should I do? Really want to put it in my display tank. thanks all
 

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The fish has been acclimated to salt water for two weeks. The fish is in a small quarantine tank. Using API General Cure, CopperSafe, and adding garlic extract to the food cured long white poop disease. However, it's bloated stomach wont go away. What should I do? Really want to put it in my display tank. thanks all
 

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When acclimating a fish from fresh to salt no medication is required as the freshwater parasites can not transition to salt.
 

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The fish has been acclimated to salt water for two weeks. The fish is in a small quarantine tank. Using API General Cure, CopperSafe, and adding garlic extract to the food cured long white poop disease. However, it's bloated stomach wont go away. What should I do? Really want to put it in my display tank. thanks all
Picture? What kind of Molly is it? The bloated belly might be normal if it's a balloon molly...
 
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Here is a video which i should have done at the start. thanks all

 
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since the other molly in there is male what bloating you're seeing is likely due to pregnancy, although I couldn't see any cause for concern due to bloating from the video. Fish looks very healthy
Cool, but she was bloated before I put the other Molly in the tank.
 

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Cool, but she was bloated before I put the other Molly in the tank.
I just rewatched the video and didn't see anything that looked alarming in terms of bloating. She could have already been pregnant as well, since both genders are often kept in the same tank at the store and livebearers can store sperm for quite some time. Unless the fish is acting strangely I wouldn't worry about it.
 
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