RandomWiktor
Rabid Betta Activist
Greetings all,
For those of you who read my many posts asking for advice on Pulpul, my betta with a very odd, expanding red patch on his fin and side, I would just like you to know that he has finally passed on. I am convinced the spot was some kind of malignancy, because anti-parasite meds, anti-bacterial meds, anti-fungals, anti-protazoals, and collodial silver wouldn't touch it. It caused a discoloring, swelling, and odd texture (grittiness and lumps) everywhere it touched, and was growing rapidly. While I was away on my vacation, despite a very good cage giver, the red patch on his body became massively engoraged and spread wildly. I advised several possible treatments from a variety of possible ailments, but just two days before I came home, he stopped eating and some of the lumps on his tail and lower body swelled significantly. He was alive - barely - the morning I was due home, and I arrived in time to watch him sink down and die.
I am very upset about Pulpul's passing, as he was one of my rescued Septicemia boys who managed to pull through. However, ever since the appearence of the red swelling and lumps, he has been in chronic poor health, so I think that short of euthanasia (he went very quick so it hardly seemed necesarry), I did - with everyone's help from here - all that I could.
This has been a bad month in fishkeeping for me. Between Tim's "stroke," my deformed goldfish finally needing to be euthanized, and my snail Elliot being killed by an overexuberent tank mate, I'm feeling pretty rough about the aquahobby right now. So, I'm going to be focusing on taking excellent care of my remaining fish. In other words, don't expect my on much anymore. Thanks so much for all of your support with Pulpul, and for everything you all do for the fishes.
~ RW
For those of you who read my many posts asking for advice on Pulpul, my betta with a very odd, expanding red patch on his fin and side, I would just like you to know that he has finally passed on. I am convinced the spot was some kind of malignancy, because anti-parasite meds, anti-bacterial meds, anti-fungals, anti-protazoals, and collodial silver wouldn't touch it. It caused a discoloring, swelling, and odd texture (grittiness and lumps) everywhere it touched, and was growing rapidly. While I was away on my vacation, despite a very good cage giver, the red patch on his body became massively engoraged and spread wildly. I advised several possible treatments from a variety of possible ailments, but just two days before I came home, he stopped eating and some of the lumps on his tail and lower body swelled significantly. He was alive - barely - the morning I was due home, and I arrived in time to watch him sink down and die.
I am very upset about Pulpul's passing, as he was one of my rescued Septicemia boys who managed to pull through. However, ever since the appearence of the red swelling and lumps, he has been in chronic poor health, so I think that short of euthanasia (he went very quick so it hardly seemed necesarry), I did - with everyone's help from here - all that I could.
This has been a bad month in fishkeeping for me. Between Tim's "stroke," my deformed goldfish finally needing to be euthanized, and my snail Elliot being killed by an overexuberent tank mate, I'm feeling pretty rough about the aquahobby right now. So, I'm going to be focusing on taking excellent care of my remaining fish. In other words, don't expect my on much anymore. Thanks so much for all of your support with Pulpul, and for everything you all do for the fishes.
~ RW
