My betta – Scarlet. She lived with me for 6 months. The nicest and calmest betta I’ve ever seen. She developed dropsy about 2 weeks ago. I treated her, she was very swollen and pine-coned. I didn’t think she would make it but after 4 days of treatment she looked backed to normal. I put her back into the tank. She was fine, looked beautiful. Yesterday I changed the water (20%) checked the parameters before and after and they were all normal. This morning I woke up to her swimming upside down. It was a swim bladder I immediately started treated her but she died soon after. I am heartbroken. I can’t help but feel like it’s my fault as leading up to her dropsy I had a nitrite problem for about a week where I couldn’t get it lower than 1. And I believe that’s what made her sick. I also never was able to successfully treat a swim bladder in any of my fish before.
I guess the point of my post is to just share my grief. I really like her. She was my first and probably last betta.
P.S took these pictures yesterday
Posted by Key-Nail-1302
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I’m sorry to hear that. Sounds like you did everything you could, the sad thing is betta genes are not the strongest.