darkwolfsoul010
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Hello, my name is Tatiana and I've been working in a family run pet store for a little over a year now. It's not like petco or petsmart, and everything is well taken care of, including the fish. This is why, a few weeks after I was hired, I knew that my store was the perfect place to get a betta fish. They all looked happy, and were well taken care of (unlike petco where they are all sick...)
I bought him (Tybalt) and had him in a small, 1 gallon tank with an african dwarf frog (who was 5 years old) for a few months before the froggy passed away
Then I decided to upgrade his tank.
I bought a 6 gallon tank and cycled the water, put in a filter, heater, gravel, plants and a moss ball. I also bought 2 tetra's, a guppy and an oto cat. The betta was very happy in his new tank and everything was fine. Tybalt was very happy and often liked to play hide and seek between the plants or play in the current of the filter.
I change the water 30% every two weeks and get a water test every 3 weeks. Everything always looks perfect, not a problem in sight.
About 2-3 weeks ago I noticed my Tybalt rapped around the thermometer, at the very top of the tank. This is very unusual for my very active fish. Days went by and he didn't get better, in fact, he started to bloat!!
I did a 10% water change every other day for the rest of that week, and took pictures of him into my workplace to show the fish people my problem.
First we tried feeding him peas, maybe he was bloated because he couldn't pass his fluids? Nope, nothing. Then we tried to put him in a hospital tank (about a half gallon) and did 1/4th teaspoon of epson salt with a water change every day. Still nothing, in fact he was getting bigger! The scales on my poor baby's stomach turned white and stretched. Now he was having a real hard time coming up for air and swimming around.
Time went by and nothing was working. I bought some Betta Revive, hoping that would kill this fungal infection. (We think it's dropsy, but his scales aren't jutting out like in a normal dropsy case). 3 drops of betta revive for my half gallon and water changes every day still didn't help the little guy.
Yesterday there was a new development. The scales along his stomach ripped off. Where his stomach is, you see white flesh. He was still eating at the time. Today the white fungus (??) has started to flake off and pollute his tank. The manager of the fish room at my pet store gave me medicated fish eggs to feed him along with an antifungal food mix he feeds all the sick fish in the pet store. Tybalt wouldn't eat it.
I can't bring myself to euthanize him, and seeing him makes me cry.
Does anyone know what this could be, and is there any way he could get better from all of this?
I bought him (Tybalt) and had him in a small, 1 gallon tank with an african dwarf frog (who was 5 years old) for a few months before the froggy passed away
Then I decided to upgrade his tank.I bought a 6 gallon tank and cycled the water, put in a filter, heater, gravel, plants and a moss ball. I also bought 2 tetra's, a guppy and an oto cat. The betta was very happy in his new tank and everything was fine. Tybalt was very happy and often liked to play hide and seek between the plants or play in the current of the filter.
I change the water 30% every two weeks and get a water test every 3 weeks. Everything always looks perfect, not a problem in sight.
About 2-3 weeks ago I noticed my Tybalt rapped around the thermometer, at the very top of the tank. This is very unusual for my very active fish. Days went by and he didn't get better, in fact, he started to bloat!!
I did a 10% water change every other day for the rest of that week, and took pictures of him into my workplace to show the fish people my problem.
First we tried feeding him peas, maybe he was bloated because he couldn't pass his fluids? Nope, nothing. Then we tried to put him in a hospital tank (about a half gallon) and did 1/4th teaspoon of epson salt with a water change every day. Still nothing, in fact he was getting bigger! The scales on my poor baby's stomach turned white and stretched. Now he was having a real hard time coming up for air and swimming around.
Time went by and nothing was working. I bought some Betta Revive, hoping that would kill this fungal infection. (We think it's dropsy, but his scales aren't jutting out like in a normal dropsy case). 3 drops of betta revive for my half gallon and water changes every day still didn't help the little guy.
Yesterday there was a new development. The scales along his stomach ripped off. Where his stomach is, you see white flesh. He was still eating at the time. Today the white fungus (??) has started to flake off and pollute his tank. The manager of the fish room at my pet store gave me medicated fish eggs to feed him along with an antifungal food mix he feeds all the sick fish in the pet store. Tybalt wouldn't eat it.
I can't bring myself to euthanize him, and seeing him makes me cry.
Does anyone know what this could be, and is there any way he could get better from all of this?
