In April I noticed my Betta was looking kinda odd. His fins were frayed and he developed a cloudy dot in his eye. I also noticed his red colors had turned to white and he had what looked like ulcers around his head.
I posted pictures of him on a site specifically about Bettas. Several people told me he looked fine and that he was just marbling as he got older. I asked on here and was told he had a Hexamita infection.
I treated him with a week of Melafix and nothing happened. He seemed okay until about a month ago when doing water changes he started breathing really heavily and puts his face vertically into the gravel. He acts like this for a day or two and then gets better. He is also having trouble swimming. I really thought it was swim bladder and I restricted food for a few days and fed peas. It seemed to have no effect.
He still loves to eat and will kill himself to get to the top of the tank to get his food when he sees me. He will jump up and bite my fingers as well. This has me really confused as to what he has. I’ve been feeding Wardley Betta pellets and Tetra blood worms. I added in Northfin veggie formula pellets a few days ago to try to give him some extra nutrition.
After he eats he goes back up to the top of the plants and just lays there. He looks like he doesn’t feel good and barely has any energy.
He is about two years old and lives in a five gallon with Guppies and Ghost Shrimp. He is kept at about 78-81 degrees. I was doing 40% water changes about twice a week but I stopped because of how I’m he was getting. So I’m changing about 50% once a week. I just changed the water yesterday so I don’t have any Nitrites, Nitrates or Ammonia ph is about 8.4
I’m hesitant to treat him because I’m not sure what it is any also because the other fish are healthy. I did buy some Kanamycin but I’m not sure if I should treat. I took some pictures of him.
Thank you
I posted pictures of him on a site specifically about Bettas. Several people told me he looked fine and that he was just marbling as he got older. I asked on here and was told he had a Hexamita infection.
I treated him with a week of Melafix and nothing happened. He seemed okay until about a month ago when doing water changes he started breathing really heavily and puts his face vertically into the gravel. He acts like this for a day or two and then gets better. He is also having trouble swimming. I really thought it was swim bladder and I restricted food for a few days and fed peas. It seemed to have no effect.
He still loves to eat and will kill himself to get to the top of the tank to get his food when he sees me. He will jump up and bite my fingers as well. This has me really confused as to what he has. I’ve been feeding Wardley Betta pellets and Tetra blood worms. I added in Northfin veggie formula pellets a few days ago to try to give him some extra nutrition.
After he eats he goes back up to the top of the plants and just lays there. He looks like he doesn’t feel good and barely has any energy.
He is about two years old and lives in a five gallon with Guppies and Ghost Shrimp. He is kept at about 78-81 degrees. I was doing 40% water changes about twice a week but I stopped because of how I’m he was getting. So I’m changing about 50% once a week. I just changed the water yesterday so I don’t have any Nitrites, Nitrates or Ammonia ph is about 8.4
I’m hesitant to treat him because I’m not sure what it is any also because the other fish are healthy. I did buy some Kanamycin but I’m not sure if I should treat. I took some pictures of him.
Thank you
