ocminpin
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My room mate has a male Crowntail Betta approx 1 yr old. She has him since February in a 2 gallon glass bowl with marbles, a cave, and a plastic leaf suction cupped to the side. He's fed twice a day and she changes his bowl fully every 7-10 days.
He has had Bettafix/Melafix used for his shredded fins/tail rot a few months ago.. seemed to be getting better and had a full 1/2" of regrowth.. stopped medication as it said to and then a month later shreds are worse and he has looked horrible since. She's dosing with Bettafix and it doesn't seem to be doing very much. He rests on his leaf or floats in the water most of the time or sits in his cave. When you walk by and pause to look at him he comes out angrily and fans his gills and fins at you, coming forward as a challenge.
I feel horrible for him as he has no heater, no filter and is just getting worse.. I've told her it would benefit him most to get a 5 gallon, with a heater, filter... and it should help improve him greatly. The poor guy is sick and can hardly get better in such pitiful conditions. He's clearly unhappy.
I'm wondering if I can offer to buy all the stuff and take him from her and rehab him. He certainly is hanging on for a reason... he has been sick approx 3 months.
HELP!
He has had Bettafix/Melafix used for his shredded fins/tail rot a few months ago.. seemed to be getting better and had a full 1/2" of regrowth.. stopped medication as it said to and then a month later shreds are worse and he has looked horrible since. She's dosing with Bettafix and it doesn't seem to be doing very much. He rests on his leaf or floats in the water most of the time or sits in his cave. When you walk by and pause to look at him he comes out angrily and fans his gills and fins at you, coming forward as a challenge.
I feel horrible for him as he has no heater, no filter and is just getting worse.. I've told her it would benefit him most to get a 5 gallon, with a heater, filter... and it should help improve him greatly. The poor guy is sick and can hardly get better in such pitiful conditions. He's clearly unhappy.
I'm wondering if I can offer to buy all the stuff and take him from her and rehab him. He certainly is hanging on for a reason... he has been sick approx 3 months.
HELP!