Fred is better!

[Apache]

Hi all,
Thanks for your help and suggestions. After a good WC and some melafix and salt, Fred is pretty much back to his normal happy self!

 

[The_Gilly]

Personally I would say a 90% wc weekly is to much I'd go with twice weekly at 25-30% making sure you remove any waste from between gravel. The reason I say this is with that amount of water change you will be stressing your fish and I doubt you can get the temp the same as the water you are taking out.

If the other tank mate is fine I would just monitor for a day or two. He might just be alittle under the weather. DONT go throwing as much medication as you can at him, it's likely to make things worse.

Based on the symptons there could be any number of things wrong with him.

Best just to keep calm and keep watch.

Also take some readings and post here if you can.

 

[WILDER]

Does his gill look red and inflamed, probably be hard to tell if it's a red betta.

 

[Apache]

The readings were all very good. I did a 95% WC yesterday (as he has no filter or airpump), and he seems to be alittle better. But now, he has a white ring around each eye. He is still gasping at the surface too.

And, yeah, Wilder, he's red, so can't tell if gills are inflamed or whatnot...

 

[WILDER]

Take a look at this with the white ring around hios eye.
http/www.flippersandfins.net/pop-eye.htm

 

[Apache]

Thanks for the informaitve link Wilder. Hmmm... It seems Fred may have pop-eye, but I'm not sure, as his eye isn't actually bulging out or anything (it looks normal), there's just the white ring. I feel like such a bad fish-mommy. I keep a clean tank, he's well-fed, I do weekly WCs, check the levels and all that, so I wonder why did he get sick?

Anyway, I will keep an eye (pardon the pun) on him, and I have added salt and Melafix to his tank.

Thing is, the Betta on the other side of the divider still looks perfectly normal...

 

[blazer666_uk]

May I suggest you get a filter first, that's so important I cant believe you don't have one . You can get a small box filter for a few pennies. Get some filter medium for the box filter (no carbon ) and a very small air pump to operate it. all this equipment will cost no more than 15 uk pounds or about 25 dollars.

Next, water changes , never change more than 30 percent of your water at a time, in a absolute emergency I'd say 50 percent is the max. If you are doing 90 percent every day. not only will this stress you're poor fish but it will remove the melafix from the water . Melafix is used for 7 days in a row, then you change the water.