My boyfriend and I have been really struggling with our first betta fish. His fins will drastically deteriorate over the course of a day or two basically once a month.
We’ve been treating mostly by staying on top of water changes/quality (ammonia 0ppm, nitrite 0ppm, nitrate <5ppm) and temperature (82f), adding IAL tannins, and by using Kanaplex in a hospital tank.
Kanaplex treatments have worked in the past but he always starts getting worse again. It doesn’t seem to be helping this time.
He lives in a planted 6 gallon cube with cherry shrimp and various small snails.
Images 1&2 sick fish
Images 3&4 tank shot
Image 5 same fish while healthy. (He sometimes returns to this state between episodes but always deteriorates again)
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1s31pze
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