Horrible disease taking out my bettas

[Auratus]

This has been happing for awhile now, some of you may have seen some of my other posts. Every betta has been dying of the same thing, which has stopped my hobby (or at least the betta part of it). WHAT IS IT!?!?!?!

This is the latest one to go down. Popped up yesterday, I put her in meds and this morning she was looking horrible, I came home at 11:15 and she was gone. No fin rot this time because it was so quick, just this massive body rot that took over so quickly. Every case is the same. The only thing that's new is this cloudy eye problem that's been happening with a few bettas but no deaths so far. All deaths are fungus related.

Bye Bye little plakat girl

Last week:

 

[Nuttygal! :0)]

Poor you! She was lovely colours!

 

[Auratus]

Thank you. She was lovely! She had a nice turqoise mask, it was hard to get pictures of her because the flash would bounce off of her lovely shiny green body
So shiny

Do not look at me!

Ok, here are the other girls I lost to the same flipping thing over the last week

She jumped because my bird flew up and knocked her lid off and I didn't know...

This is depressing

 

[Bettaman]

Very difficult one this BUT as there is no sign of external fungus or damage then i would suspect internal worms, so the fish is being eaten alive from within any chance of a postmortem and have a look if any sign inside, i know it sounds an odd thing to request but the only way to be sure....

Edit just noticed as well in the first picture with that light shining on the water it looks a little murky and oily.......do some water test for us ammonia etc...

 

[snowyangel]

Wow Auratus im so sorry. I'm a really big fan of that white and blue female at the end. I hope there's a solution. Reminds me of when 65%( over 30) of my breeding stock of guppies all died of the guppy disease within 2 weeks. Very heartbreaking, yet nothing I could figure out to treat. I eventually cured it by taking out all the healthy guppies and putting them into a temperoray bucket, while i disinfected the whole tank, cleared it right out top to bototm. I washed the gravel, filter, everything. No signs of the disease after that. If there was any sign of it again, i would euthanise the victim right away before an outbreak occured again.

 

[Auratus]

But the thing is, this happens to bettas that are in seperate tanks, no where near eachother. And the flash made that last girl look blue, but she was really all black and white

That film or what you call "oily" is from the melafix, it gets that way when there is no movement in the water... I really don't like the stuff, I don't even think it does anything. As for the murky water, it's the tannin from the driftwood. She was in a .75 gallon jar inside of her big tank to keep the temp stable. I didn't want to take her out because I didn't have a heater. Although, the water I put in the .75 was not tank water... so I dunno.
I've been posting about this problem for months now and no one seems to know what's wrong. If this is internal parasites, what do I do? If I find out that she had worms after she's dead it doesn't really do me any good I do have meds for parasites though. ARGGGG.

Oh well, I'm done with bettas until I can figure out what's up with my water/fish.

 

[Bettaman]

it wont do you any harm to find out as you stated she is dead so it wont matter if you can find out, if its internal worms....as then you can treat for it and stop loosing your fish that are alive.....personally i would do a 100% water change and treat as if infected with internal parasites...... and then do a 50% water change every 3 days, just get a good internal worm parasite medication here in the UK would use sterazine or octazine.........dont give up on the ones that are alive

edit don't matter if separate tanks can be transfered by net drips of water off your hands etc........

 

[mrplaty]

that blue and white betta at the end is lovely

 

[skye4jc]

i have a betta that is looking similar to your frist pic, auratus. only he has a hole in his head... sorta. i dont have a digital cam, but i may be able to describe. its like he has lost about 10 sacles on the side of his head and you can see the skin underneath. the sacles immediately surrounding the area are porcupined, like localized dropset, and his body seems swollen a little. he is also going white under his gills, and getting a reddish spot where the gills meet. he;s rather listless, and i have transferred him from my 10 gal. community tank (which he was thriving in till this issue) into a 1 gal bowl with meds. what is this, and what do i do?? anyone???

sorry about the spelling... its supposed to say scales... not sacles! lol