GadgetGal
New Member
I am getting desperate as my beautiful, friendly Betta seems to be deteriorating despite what I do. He has some sort of white with swelling.
(larger photos below)
Tank: 30ltr Biorb (I think that is about 8 US gallons) with one betta and two tetras, only plastic ornaments and standard Biorb filtration.
History:
Start of April: Fish had small white area on flank, but still behaved normally, ate well and no signs of problems on the other fish. I looked it up in my fish diseases book, and on the internet, and it looked to me like a bacterial infection.
Tested tank:
No3 25
No2 0
GH less than 7
Kh 3d
Ph 6,4
Cl2 0
Did water change and treated with Interpet anti-bacterial as per instructions, repeating the dose after 4 days.
At start of course, the problem seemed to be improving, the white seemed to be coming off. However by the end of the 7 days it was definitely still there. Instructions said I could re-treat provided I did a water change, so I did a 6 ltr water change and repeated the course:
16th April, another 7 day treatment as before.
Sunday 19th, my notes say "definitely improving, fish still acting normal and healthy"
At the end of this treatment I change water again and put the carbon etc back in the tank to give the fish a bit of a rest. Throughout he had appeared to have no ill effects from the treatment in terms of eating of behaviour. Still as friendly as ever, swimming normally. But I was worried that the lesions that I thought was a bacterial infection had not reduced completely.
I decided to leave him a week but to get some other treatment plan ready to go in case he didn't improve.
I went on the internet again to decide between a treatment for white spot or maybe one for fin rot, though the fins had not been affected previously, and spotted Interpret Goldfish disease aquarium fish treatment. I checked the reviews and they seemed good. It appeared to be a broad spectrum treatment that might treat white spot, fin rot, bacteria etc so I decided to get that.
By May he was still looking very bad.
2nd May I did a 6 ltr water change, remove carbon and treated with this new treatment.
It is now 4th May and the attached photos show how bad my poor fish is looking. The top photo was taken this morning. The bottom photo was from 10th April when I thought he was improving as the white stuff seemed to be coming off him.
I'm getting desperate. Everywhere is closed so I cannot go to my usual fish store. Can anybody advise? Anybody any ideas what could this be and what I should be doing to fix it? It doesn't seem to affect the other fish in the slightest.
Thanks in advance
(larger photos below)
Tank: 30ltr Biorb (I think that is about 8 US gallons) with one betta and two tetras, only plastic ornaments and standard Biorb filtration.
History:
Start of April: Fish had small white area on flank, but still behaved normally, ate well and no signs of problems on the other fish. I looked it up in my fish diseases book, and on the internet, and it looked to me like a bacterial infection.
Tested tank:
No3 25
No2 0
GH less than 7
Kh 3d
Ph 6,4
Cl2 0
Did water change and treated with Interpet anti-bacterial as per instructions, repeating the dose after 4 days.
At start of course, the problem seemed to be improving, the white seemed to be coming off. However by the end of the 7 days it was definitely still there. Instructions said I could re-treat provided I did a water change, so I did a 6 ltr water change and repeated the course:
16th April, another 7 day treatment as before.
Sunday 19th, my notes say "definitely improving, fish still acting normal and healthy"
At the end of this treatment I change water again and put the carbon etc back in the tank to give the fish a bit of a rest. Throughout he had appeared to have no ill effects from the treatment in terms of eating of behaviour. Still as friendly as ever, swimming normally. But I was worried that the lesions that I thought was a bacterial infection had not reduced completely.
I decided to leave him a week but to get some other treatment plan ready to go in case he didn't improve.
I went on the internet again to decide between a treatment for white spot or maybe one for fin rot, though the fins had not been affected previously, and spotted Interpret Goldfish disease aquarium fish treatment. I checked the reviews and they seemed good. It appeared to be a broad spectrum treatment that might treat white spot, fin rot, bacteria etc so I decided to get that.
By May he was still looking very bad.
2nd May I did a 6 ltr water change, remove carbon and treated with this new treatment.
It is now 4th May and the attached photos show how bad my poor fish is looking. The top photo was taken this morning. The bottom photo was from 10th April when I thought he was improving as the white stuff seemed to be coming off him.
I'm getting desperate. Everywhere is closed so I cannot go to my usual fish store. Can anybody advise? Anybody any ideas what could this be and what I should be doing to fix it? It doesn't seem to affect the other fish in the slightest.
Thanks in advance