Kesh88
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Around 8 weeks ago one of my bettas, Frost (a delta tail EE), developed a cloudiness in his right eye. Over time the cloudiness is gone and it seemed that his was healing but now his eye looks much worse. It is laying flat against his face, looks injured and has red marks around it (these weren’t present until a couple of days ago). I get the feeling he's injured the eye rather than it being a disease but now it looks like the area is infected, and I'm certain he's lost use of the eye. He still eats well and is as lazy as ever (he's never been overly active due to his large fins).
I've been doing 1-2x 25-40% water changes a week for 3 weeks now (I normally only do one a week) but haven't been adding anything other than Prime to the tank. I'm not sure what to treat him with? There are red cherry shrimp in the tank so I may have to remove him for treatment... I don't really keep a hospital tank set up but I have a 60 litre plastic tub, or otherwise a small 2 gallon tank I could use if need be.
Please help, how do I treat this?!
Tank details:
8-ish gallons (38 litres).
2 sponge filters.
Heated to around 78 F (25 Celsius).
Tankmates: A few dozen red cherry shrimp.
Food: He's fussy and will only eat Nutrafin Max tropical pellets or frozen bloodworms, I feed twice daily, 2-3 pellets at a time or half a dozen bloodworms once a week.
Maintenance: Once a week 30-40% water changes, I vacuum the substrate at the same time.
Additives used: Seachem Prime and Flourish for the plants.
Water Parameters:
Ammonia: 0-0.25ppm.
Nitrite: 0ppm.
Nitrate: 40ppm.
pH: 7.8.
I do not have a test kit for gH or kH.
Here’s some pictures of him 4 months ago and today…
I've been doing 1-2x 25-40% water changes a week for 3 weeks now (I normally only do one a week) but haven't been adding anything other than Prime to the tank. I'm not sure what to treat him with? There are red cherry shrimp in the tank so I may have to remove him for treatment... I don't really keep a hospital tank set up but I have a 60 litre plastic tub, or otherwise a small 2 gallon tank I could use if need be.
Please help, how do I treat this?!
Tank details:
8-ish gallons (38 litres).
2 sponge filters.
Heated to around 78 F (25 Celsius).
Tankmates: A few dozen red cherry shrimp.
Food: He's fussy and will only eat Nutrafin Max tropical pellets or frozen bloodworms, I feed twice daily, 2-3 pellets at a time or half a dozen bloodworms once a week.
Maintenance: Once a week 30-40% water changes, I vacuum the substrate at the same time.
Additives used: Seachem Prime and Flourish for the plants.
Water Parameters:
Ammonia: 0-0.25ppm.
Nitrite: 0ppm.
Nitrate: 40ppm.
pH: 7.8.
I do not have a test kit for gH or kH.
Here’s some pictures of him 4 months ago and today…
