I think one of my male bettas

[Elisabeth83]

I've noticed in the last couple of days one of my male bettas (one with the longest fins) has been acting strange. I noticed yesterday during a water change that on the tips of his fins there looks to be blood. He also appears to have fungus on his fins

He's started to lay on the bottom of his kritter keepers more often and he has been occasionally darting around the tank. I cant see any white spots on him.

I do 2 100% water changes a week. Does it sound like Septicemia? I've looked at pictures of when I first got him and now and he definitely didn't have these red blood spots on the ends of his fins.

I need help on how to go about treating him as I've never dealt with anything like this before. Yesterday I put in some fungus medication for the fungus I can see on his fins but maybe I should be treating with something different if he indeed has septicemia?

 

[OohFeeshy]

Red tips to fins can mean septaceamia, yep. I've treated it before, I used an anti-internal bacteria med for it. Keep the water clean as you can too. Oh, and add a bit of salt.

 

[Elisabeth83]

Red tips to fins can mean septaceamia, yep. I've treated it before, I used an anti-internal bacteria med for it. Keep the water clean as you can too. Oh, and add a bit of salt.

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Ok the meds I can get my hands on to treat this is JBL ektol fluid or JBL furanol but I'm not sure which one would be best to use??

Here's info about furanol: http/www.reptilica.de/shop/product_info....2d4a7e9e9174bdb

and info about the ektol fluid:
http/www.reptilica.de/shop/product_info....2d4a7e9e9174bdb

edit: I'm thinking of going with the ektol fluid because it says it treats secondary infections as well as my betta has fungus too I wonder if he came to me with the septicemia? I've only had him for 1 1/2 months. If not then I'm not a very good fish mommy It says they get it from poor water quality, overcrowding and rough handling

 

[OohFeeshy]

Hmm, I'd go with the Furanol. It will know out the bacteria quickly, but since you'll need an anti-fungal for the fungus, I'd go with the one that gets rid of the sepatceamia first.

 

[bettaBetta]

I believe Neptune and Amphitrite had it when I got them. I treated it with Bettafix and it worked quite well.

 

[Elisabeth83]

Yah!! I just wanted to update everyone to let you know that my boy is all better now I've been treating him with JBL ektol fluid and it seems to of done the trick!!

I'm so relieved

 

[Durbkat]

I thought that bloody fins meant ammonia or nitrite poising?

 

[SRC]

The blood on the ends of the fin sounds like the beginnings of fin rot to me. I know I have a white finned fish and if I go longer then the time frame I normally do water changes in (like every 4 days and I go 5) the edges of his turns red like that..when I do the WC it is ok the next day.

But they sell a medicated food for this. I saw it at the LPS today matter o factly. It was for internal and external bacterial infections. Spetcemia was listed on the "treats" list. Not sure if you can get it in Sweden, but it's always worth a looksee.