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K will do. Thanks everyone

His pine owning is def more noticeable now. He won't eat, stays at the bottom breathing heavy. Only swims round when I come up close. Should I end his misery in some clove oil? Chances of recovery are much too slim , no?

btw, thanks everyone for the help and kind words...it's been about a year since i started with bettas...and i've had 4! my 1st one is the one that's dying now, 2nd one jumped out the tank on the 2nd day. 3rd one died 4 mths after i got her, from columnaris. 4th one is still alive and healthy...

i will try the tectracyline if it gives him a chance...i'd feel guilty if i didnt do everything in my power to keep him alive. But i only have his tank, which is cycled and now empty at the moment...and a 5 gallon rubbermaid tub that he is in currently, which is bare with a heater (and a cave)...

no. air filter? you mean an air pump? i have that..but no filter. i really think no medicine is going to help him if its dropsy. do u tink it's dropsy? another question...if he does pass, do i have to re-cycle the tank (clean out completely)? i was thinking of doing that before...

i've already isolated him in a non filtered 5 gal tank. he's getting daily 50% water changes. should i bother with the medicine in a non filtered tank?

does it look like dropsy to you Mumma.of.two?

SO i got new ammonia test kit (api drops), and ammonia is 0. so it definitely can't be ammonia burn right? i think it may be dropsy...his "flaring" gills always seem to be sticking out a bit, and he has pineconing..its not major pineconing, but if you look at the pic below:

maybe it's ammonia burn. tbh, i ran out of ammonia test (the two bottles). last time i checked was about a mth ago, but it the whole time since i started testing, it's never been over 0.25, except when i was obviously cycling (fishless). i would randomnly check it every month, and it would...

i know.he gets weekly water changes and everything. maybe i did too much? i was thinking he must be have been at least a year when i got him

I've had my betta for just over a year now. throughout the year, he's fought fin rot quite a few times, and a few bouts of consitipation. It was easy to determine when he was sick, because during the day, he would hide in his castle and not come out. Lately, he's been deteriorating to...

yeah...at this point, i'm not gonna bother him. hopefully it dislodges on its own. he's extremely mad at me (or scared). every time i come by the tank, he would always rush up and jump up thru the water (he never makes it out of the tank though)...but this morn, he stayed at the back of tank...

Well I put my bett thru 2 hrs of ****. After seeing response about it being a hair, I tried to pluck at it. My betta is super ggressive, so I had to net him. So after a while of everything falling off It, it turned out it was a hair. But it's coming out his anus! When I did get it between my...

Anyone? Please

So my betta has this white flaky string like thing hanging from or near his poop hole. Whenever poop comes out, it gets caught on it, and hangs from him (so nasty looking). Eventually the poop will fall off (with a little pestering from me and his feeding tongs), but the white thing remains...

so i got 3 neon tetras from someone who was going to flush them down the toilet...i currently don't really want to take care of more fish than my 2 bettas, but i felt i didnt have a choice. I've put them in a non-heated, 3 gallon rubbermaid tank (it's 5 gallon, but i only filled it about 3...

ummm...ok?

Not sure if this has been brought up before.... I was wondering if anyone thinks this could work, or just plain dumb. I know male betta are aggressive and will fight to the death. In the wild, from my understanding, one will usually retreat. If I was to get a large, heavily planted with lots...

thanks...i also have been putting api salt.. i'll continue with minimum 50% pwcs.

so my new betta that i've had for about 1 month now had developed some fin rot (or fin-tear..at the end, it looks the it's been shredded a bit). his water params are: 5gal amm - 0.25 nitrit - 0 nitrate - 5ppm i've done water changes, but it never gets below 0.25. my other betta, who's in a...

the carbon had been removed during treatment. in fact, prior to treatment, i was using the filter cartridges made for the s10 marina, but all of them contained carbon. so that's why i got filter floss and pot scurbbies. i only put the carbon in once she died, and during the break in between...

hob filter - sponge in tank, s10 marina (really small). inside, i used filter floss, media bag with carbon, and on top pot scrubbies. i just stuffed the 3 layers in.

i did that for about 1 week straight, and nothing changed. Meds was something i really tried avoiding, trust me. Her body looked really bad, with big white spots...like she was ti dyed. also her whole chin area became with two. i'm glad she's not suffering, and it's over. i think the...

she just died...i came down to have a smoke, and just check on her, and she was died, against the wall in her cave. my concern is now the tank....do i really have to scrub everything down and start fresh? it's cycled...took me over 3-4 weeks of fishless cycling and i dont want to go thru...

My female betta is getting worse and worse, and i'm just wondering if i'm prolonging her suffering by continuing treatment. I had started another thread, and although i've gotten some good advice, nothing has seemed to work. she's now on furan 2 and api salt, but it seems pointless. at this...