missyj
Aquarium Advice Newbie
I am at my wits end with our Betta fish. We have had him 3 years. A few weeks ago I thought I saw a white area vertically on the edge of his posterior tail, nearest his distal tail. Then I thought maybe it was always there, and I hadn't really looked hard before:
Fast forward and his tails are being eaten away (on the distal and posterior) and its is getting pretty much flush toward the body of him.
At first I thought this was a fungus and used the jungle fizzy tabs for fungus, his condition only got worse, so I tried the life rescue because I was thinking maybe it is something else. Again this did nothing.
The white area is getting larger and larger and its deformed looking and crusty or raw looking... also there a hole clean through his tail fin, such that only the ray is visible connecting it to the body but not the fin part.
Now I am thinking a bacteria, columnarius or something along those line?
My fish has been eating fine the whole time (4 pellets, twice daily). He has grown into a fairly largely Betta...looks twice the size of the bettas for sale at the pet store.
I have some tetracycline and I'm thinking I should try it. Its just I keep giving him meds and nothing is helping but I think something must be done or he won't live all that much longer.
He is in a 10 gallon tank, his ammonia and nitrites are 0 ppm. That's all I check for. I have live plants in the tank. I put in some new live plants in roughly the same time as the 'white' stuff appeared. Coincidennce perhaps?
Fast forward and his tails are being eaten away (on the distal and posterior) and its is getting pretty much flush toward the body of him.
At first I thought this was a fungus and used the jungle fizzy tabs for fungus, his condition only got worse, so I tried the life rescue because I was thinking maybe it is something else. Again this did nothing.
The white area is getting larger and larger and its deformed looking and crusty or raw looking... also there a hole clean through his tail fin, such that only the ray is visible connecting it to the body but not the fin part.
Now I am thinking a bacteria, columnarius or something along those line?
My fish has been eating fine the whole time (4 pellets, twice daily). He has grown into a fairly largely Betta...looks twice the size of the bettas for sale at the pet store.
I have some tetracycline and I'm thinking I should try it. Its just I keep giving him meds and nothing is helping but I think something must be done or he won't live all that much longer.
He is in a 10 gallon tank, his ammonia and nitrites are 0 ppm. That's all I check for. I have live plants in the tank. I put in some new live plants in roughly the same time as the 'white' stuff appeared. Coincidennce perhaps?
