I have a male betta that I believe has fin rot (as it's fin are becoming ragged and torn looking, with whitish on the ends). I usually keep him in a plain fish bowl (it's actually a giant champagne glass that holds about a gallon of water. Classy.) with salted water. I don't have it heated but the temperature is usually around 75. I clean his bowl once a month (this potentially could be the source of the problem, I know.) He's been in his champagne glass for about two weeks, but developed the rot a month ago after he had been in his old bowl for a month, but I've had him for probably 3-4 months. The water is not filtered.
I just moved him into a hospital tank that's 1.5 gal to begin treating him with Tetra Fungus Guard and heated the water to 78 degrees. I feed him a small pinch of bloodworms once a day at night; when I first got him I tried feeding him the pellets I had from my previous bettas but he absolutely refused to eat them.
The fin rot just doesn't seem to be going away and is getting worse! I'm not sure what else I can do since I'm treating him with medicine and heating the water. He eats all of his food so that shouldn't be polluting the water.
Help! (I've posted a picture, you can't see the fin rot as much because his fins aren't fanned out but if you look closely you can see they're kind of shredded.)
I just moved him into a hospital tank that's 1.5 gal to begin treating him with Tetra Fungus Guard and heated the water to 78 degrees. I feed him a small pinch of bloodworms once a day at night; when I first got him I tried feeding him the pellets I had from my previous bettas but he absolutely refused to eat them.
The fin rot just doesn't seem to be going away and is getting worse! I'm not sure what else I can do since I'm treating him with medicine and heating the water. He eats all of his food so that shouldn't be polluting the water.
Help! (I've posted a picture, you can't see the fin rot as much because his fins aren't fanned out but if you look closely you can see they're kind of shredded.)