The Puffer Forum

Hey so i got my balloon molly 2 months ago, i originally got two but one had really crispy/flakey scales(idontknow how to describe it) around his mouth, so i returned him but my other molly had shiny normal looking scales so i kept him, but now he has the same flakey scales around his mouth, and even his left gil turned orange and it does not look normal, i started treating my tank with melafix today but i dont know what he has and would like to know thanks

btw he's orginally white with a goldish tailfin, backfin, and mouth.

Tank size, temp, tankmates, ammonia/nitrite/nitrate levels, etc.?

Can you get some pics of this? I'm not really picturing it well, but then I don't know fish diseases very good. How's he acting otherwise?

Answer all the red questions from the Hospital forum. Maybe a mod could move this one for you.

Are the scales starting to stick up like a pinecone?