Bubba the betta is deceased

[rcole82]

R.I.P. bubba (my blue/purple/red male betta) you were a mean ornery one, but you were still pretty

he'd been acting strange the nite before last (noticed him swimming funny, some signs of ich, and he was starting to turn white around his "chin" area, looked as though his colouring had been scraped off ) I was gonna decrease his food intake for a few days and placed him into my quarantine tank where i already had two female bettas being treated for ich I woke up this morning and he was kinda pointed head first into the gravel and we was covered in this fuzzy stuff

Tommorow is supposed to be the last day of my melafix treatment for the other two female bettas but now i'm very concerned about reintroducing them into my 10 gal. I've been observing them all day, and they both appear okay, they aren't showing any of symptoms that bubba had before he died, but would it harm them to keep them in the medicated tank for a while longer? how long should i leave them in there?

 

[jams.alaskan]

I'm sorry you lost Bubba...

ALASKA

 

[Mesome]

That is very sad. RIP Bubba.
Did the melefix seem like it was helping Bubba? If not, then it is probably not a good idea to reintroduce the females yet, as you haven't been treating it for the right thing. Maybe do a few really good waterchanges first.

 

[rcole82]

yeah, i was very sad that i lost bubba, he went from good to bad in a matter of a day or so. i knew there was something wrong when i put him in his partition(a hang on netbreeder) of the quarantine tank and he didn't flare at the females as they swam by. I've decided that he's going to be my first and last male betta.

I don't really know if the melafix was helping him, i'm not sure if i quarantined him in time, all i know is that he hadn't even been in the quarantine tank for 12 hours, so his condition must have progressed quite a bit before i got to him

I forgot to mention that the females had some fin rot going on so i decided to treat them for that with the melafix and added a bit of salt to help with the ich, raised the temperature to about 85 degrees (they both tolerated this well) and tried to keep the tank as dark as i possible. The pink betta's ich disappeared within a few days, the white betta's ich disappeared within 4, both their fins are on the way to recovery and they seem to have grown quite a bit in the past week, i'm actually quite surprised.

Mesome, how many water changes would you suggest i do? and should it be over a span of a few days? should they be complete? 1/2, etc.?