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Thanks for the reply. Sorry to hear your fish are dealing with the same thing. It is helpful to have the name of the ailment. Most of what I'm seeing on lymphocystis says it usually goes away eventually. The Wikipedia page on lymphocystis suggests weekly bacteria treatments. This makes sense to...

Checking in for an update and hoping for some more insight. He still has the bump and it seems like it's slowly growing. We did a week of the API fin & body treatment. Although it didn't get rid of the bump, we think the treatment got rid of some lingering fin rot he was dealing with. Followed...

We did the pre-mix in warm water. It was still a little cloudy, but more what I was expecting. Much better.

Thank you. The active ingredient is Doxycycline Hyclate. I was able to find this site which says the API treats gram-positive and some gram-negative bacteria Aquarium Medications Part 2 | Antibiotic & Antimicrobial Treatments We will leave the filter as you suggest - it is just a sponge so...

I'd say we waited 2-3 hours before the water change. It was still a bit cloudy after the change. It's clear this morning. The clouding doesn't worry me so much as the clumps/particles - it looked like the tank was full of brine shrimp. We'll try again this evening. I was thinking about...

We have been treating with the API Fin and Body. After adding it to the tank, it has been clouding up A LOT. We've followed the directions, halving the quantity for our 5 gal tank. After an hour or so there are bunches of floating cloudy particles in the tank. We use a sponge filter and it seems...

Thank you! We appreciate the post very much. The info from the BettaSource site was helpful too. We'll take your advice and follow up with results.

Our betta JT has a bump/growth on his dorsal fin (see photo). The bump has developed a layer of grunge over it. The bump has been there for a couple months. At first it didn't seem to be bothering him, but it started to get bigger and grow some fuzz/mold so we used Jungle Fungus Clear. He has...