Colleen_slainte
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I apologize in advance if this topic has already been covered, I'm just so sick of researching and reading.... I just have to ask.
I have a 3g eclipse filter tank with a betta and 2 zebra danios. I had some different fish in there, but, alas, too many and they died of ammonia poisoning and/or overcrowding. Anywho, (re)started with the betta (Pumpernickel), kept him for a month or so and got the danios. About 2 months later I started to notice some brown algae, so, I got a snail. regular, brown snail. He was cool for a few days and then I had to leave for a week & a half to visit my folks for christmas. I put in one of those 7 day betta blocks and went on my merry way. As soon as I came back home, I discovered my snail had died while I was gone and my betta had developed the wierdest bump on his side. I also noticed that one of the scales at the peak of the lump had fallen off/been damaged. Prompted by my somewhat recent massive (albeit unintentional) fish murdering, I immediately began research. It didn't inhibit his movements, he still ate and chased the danios around as he'd done before. This was on the 3rd of Jan. I did a treatment of Maracyn and nothing happened, so, I kinda shrugged it off. On the 10th I bought a 10 gallon and moved all 3 of them into it. Everything was fine, he wasn't getting worse, but, he definitely wasn't getting better. I went back to my folks' again on the 14th for a drs appt and when I came back on the 17th, he had acquired full blown dropsy. I had been reluctant to acknowledge it as dropsy because he wasn't pineconing (at the time) and basically I didn't want to admit it. Anywho, I freaked out and took him to the local fish store. He looked AWFUL. He was huge! The wierd thing was that he was still eating and swimming alot! I got some bloodworms and he even ate those! So, the owner of the pet store said to treat him for dropsy with maracyn 2. Did that. Isolated him in a 2 gal vase and kept it warm, pinch of epsom salt and did at least a 10% water change daily (50% every 3 days), all the while treating him with the Maracyn 2. He got ALMOST all the way down. He got all the way back to the way he was before the dropsy kicked in. Which means he still had the tumor. So, I stopped treating him and let him go. He started to swell up again. So, I fasted him for a week. That did nothing. So, now I don't know what to do. I can't afford to continually feed him Maracyn 2 and he's already starting to pinecone slightly, again. He's still vibrant as ever and his tail fins are thick and pretty full of color (not at 100%, but, mostly there). He still flares up at me when I look at him the wrong way.
So, this is my dillemma. I've read EVERYTHING I could get my hands on on the internet about anything having to do with bettas, tumors, and dropsy. I know that tumors can be common, but he's not that old. I purchased him from the pet store about 4 months ago and he was fine up until I left and that dang snail died.
Any and all help is soo much appreciated!
I have a 3g eclipse filter tank with a betta and 2 zebra danios. I had some different fish in there, but, alas, too many and they died of ammonia poisoning and/or overcrowding. Anywho, (re)started with the betta (Pumpernickel), kept him for a month or so and got the danios. About 2 months later I started to notice some brown algae, so, I got a snail. regular, brown snail. He was cool for a few days and then I had to leave for a week & a half to visit my folks for christmas. I put in one of those 7 day betta blocks and went on my merry way. As soon as I came back home, I discovered my snail had died while I was gone and my betta had developed the wierdest bump on his side. I also noticed that one of the scales at the peak of the lump had fallen off/been damaged. Prompted by my somewhat recent massive (albeit unintentional) fish murdering, I immediately began research. It didn't inhibit his movements, he still ate and chased the danios around as he'd done before. This was on the 3rd of Jan. I did a treatment of Maracyn and nothing happened, so, I kinda shrugged it off. On the 10th I bought a 10 gallon and moved all 3 of them into it. Everything was fine, he wasn't getting worse, but, he definitely wasn't getting better. I went back to my folks' again on the 14th for a drs appt and when I came back on the 17th, he had acquired full blown dropsy. I had been reluctant to acknowledge it as dropsy because he wasn't pineconing (at the time) and basically I didn't want to admit it. Anywho, I freaked out and took him to the local fish store. He looked AWFUL. He was huge! The wierd thing was that he was still eating and swimming alot! I got some bloodworms and he even ate those! So, the owner of the pet store said to treat him for dropsy with maracyn 2. Did that. Isolated him in a 2 gal vase and kept it warm, pinch of epsom salt and did at least a 10% water change daily (50% every 3 days), all the while treating him with the Maracyn 2. He got ALMOST all the way down. He got all the way back to the way he was before the dropsy kicked in. Which means he still had the tumor. So, I stopped treating him and let him go. He started to swell up again. So, I fasted him for a week. That did nothing. So, now I don't know what to do. I can't afford to continually feed him Maracyn 2 and he's already starting to pinecone slightly, again. He's still vibrant as ever and his tail fins are thick and pretty full of color (not at 100%, but, mostly there). He still flares up at me when I look at him the wrong way.
So, this is my dillemma. I've read EVERYTHING I could get my hands on on the internet about anything having to do with bettas, tumors, and dropsy. I know that tumors can be common, but he's not that old. I purchased him from the pet store about 4 months ago and he was fine up until I left and that dang snail died.
Any and all help is soo much appreciated!