Sahabo
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ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 5
last pwc: 50% on 8/17/09
betta purchased in 3/08
food: 5 Hikari betta pellets/day as a staple, varied occasionally with bloodworms, brine shrimp and I feed him a blanched pea once a week.
Course of illness: Added 3 Trigonostigma hengeli (Rasbora hengeli) in June to 10 gallon betta tank (ugh, I know that probably was not the best idea in hindsight...don't yell at me lol). Betta was living happily with 4 otos in the 10 gallon. When I added the rasbora's, he got stressed and developed ich and finrot. He behaved fine with the new fish. I considered taking out the new fish, but Maracide and Maracyn II cleared up the ich and finrot pretty quickly. I thought everything was fine and everyone was behaving fine together. Then the ich came back but Maracide took care of it once again.
Problem 1:
In the past two weeks, betta started getting bloated and I thought it was constipation. I gave him the pea treatment, then tried adding a few days of fasting in between peas. No effect. Then I tried adding Epsom salt. Still nothing. Then I started giving him Epsom salt baths in a 1 gallon tank for 15-20 minutes once a day. Still nothing! arg. You can see in the pics how bloated his stomach is and the scales are starting to protrude there. I'm assuming that is still constipation, but why isn't it clearing up??
Problem 2:
At the same time, what I thought was ich came back. However, it did not respond to any meds this time. I tried Maracide, Marycyn I and II and nothing helped. Well, the Maracyn seemed to have a small effect and that was the last treatment I tried that ended 2 days ago. I'm really starting to question if it is ich at all or maybe he has ich and some kind of fungus too.
Behavior: He's hungry and will gobble anything I let him have. He is not flashing or rubbing. He seems to be a little lethargic but perks up when he sees me. The weirdest thing, he is spending a lot more time near the surface, just hanging out there and breathing a little more heavily than usual.
OK, that was a lot of information! Hopefully someone has some advice for me!
pics
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 5
last pwc: 50% on 8/17/09
betta purchased in 3/08
food: 5 Hikari betta pellets/day as a staple, varied occasionally with bloodworms, brine shrimp and I feed him a blanched pea once a week.
Course of illness: Added 3 Trigonostigma hengeli (Rasbora hengeli) in June to 10 gallon betta tank (ugh, I know that probably was not the best idea in hindsight...don't yell at me lol). Betta was living happily with 4 otos in the 10 gallon. When I added the rasbora's, he got stressed and developed ich and finrot. He behaved fine with the new fish. I considered taking out the new fish, but Maracide and Maracyn II cleared up the ich and finrot pretty quickly. I thought everything was fine and everyone was behaving fine together. Then the ich came back but Maracide took care of it once again.
Problem 1:
In the past two weeks, betta started getting bloated and I thought it was constipation. I gave him the pea treatment, then tried adding a few days of fasting in between peas. No effect. Then I tried adding Epsom salt. Still nothing. Then I started giving him Epsom salt baths in a 1 gallon tank for 15-20 minutes once a day. Still nothing! arg. You can see in the pics how bloated his stomach is and the scales are starting to protrude there. I'm assuming that is still constipation, but why isn't it clearing up??
Problem 2:
At the same time, what I thought was ich came back. However, it did not respond to any meds this time. I tried Maracide, Marycyn I and II and nothing helped. Well, the Maracyn seemed to have a small effect and that was the last treatment I tried that ended 2 days ago. I'm really starting to question if it is ich at all or maybe he has ich and some kind of fungus too.
Behavior: He's hungry and will gobble anything I let him have. He is not flashing or rubbing. He seems to be a little lethargic but perks up when he sees me. The weirdest thing, he is spending a lot more time near the surface, just hanging out there and breathing a little more heavily than usual.
OK, that was a lot of information! Hopefully someone has some advice for me!
pics