Winterlily
Fish Crazy
I posted this same question in the general discussion section, but I thought perhaps here was a good place too. (Not sure if there's a rule against double posting??) Anyhow: I just lost my halfmoon betta to what may have been columnaris. It was an awful thing where he was basically being eaten away by something and ended up with huge, deep, gaping "wounds" like big gouges. Meds didn't help and he died last night. 
He was my favorite fish (the red and purple one in my sig).
Anyhow. I have three 5.5 gallon tanks, each with a male betta in. In each tank are 2 olive nerite snails. Before I started medicating the one tank, I took the snails out and they are temporarily living in a tiny travel type cage/tank. My question is this: Is it safe to now put them in with the other bettas? Since they were in the tank with the sick fish all the way up until I started medicating, do I have any worry here that whatever it was continues to live on/in/with them or something and will be passed to the fish I put them in with??
Any worry that it was something parasitic that CAME from them to begin with? (All 6 snails came from the same place, same tank.)
I really need to get the snails out of the little thing they're in - the water quickly gets too cold for them and I'm going to end up losing them. Right now, they are on the inside wall but actually out of the water entirely (still safe in the tank of course) because, I think, it's much too cold.
What do you think?
Thanks!
He was my favorite fish (the red and purple one in my sig).Anyhow. I have three 5.5 gallon tanks, each with a male betta in. In each tank are 2 olive nerite snails. Before I started medicating the one tank, I took the snails out and they are temporarily living in a tiny travel type cage/tank. My question is this: Is it safe to now put them in with the other bettas? Since they were in the tank with the sick fish all the way up until I started medicating, do I have any worry here that whatever it was continues to live on/in/with them or something and will be passed to the fish I put them in with??
Any worry that it was something parasitic that CAME from them to begin with? (All 6 snails came from the same place, same tank.)
I really need to get the snails out of the little thing they're in - the water quickly gets too cold for them and I'm going to end up losing them. Right now, they are on the inside wall but actually out of the water entirely (still safe in the tank of course) because, I think, it's much too cold.
What do you think?
Thanks!
