Betta Fish: Oscar Fin Rot Progress

I got this betta fish May 2024, he was very small and happy all the time. I did regular water changes and feeding. His water tests always came back as good. Sadly, he randomly started having pieces of his fins tearing up.

It started off as being small tears, and I thought it was from the fake plants. So I took all of them out, and only had live plants. But the tearing continued into bigger pieces.

I started doing more water changes and adding aquarium salt, then went to dosing the tank with medicine. But it just kept getting worse.

I went through five different bottles of different medications that so many people recommended, but nothing was seeming to help. His energy levels always stayed the same, he never showed any signs of him being sick affecting him.

Little scales on his face started to come off, and I really thought he was going to die, so I took him from my office space and took him to a room in my house. I did another 100% water change, and started using pemafix that my coworker recommended.

He started to noticeably grow his fins back within two weeks. They have now fully grown back to what I think is the full amount. His fins will probably stay the same clear ish color, from where the new growth happened. But I thought I’d share, since I love my sweet boy.

I’m not sure how it was the pemafix that helped him the most, as I was using other things like seachem polygaurd, paraguard, melafix, bettafix, and they didn’t work.

I’ll try to take a nice clear photo, and post it later!