I’m going to give a long story short.
This is a 6.8 gallon, it was filtering for 1 1/2 months before adding fish. I had 3 nerite snails, 5 glo tetra, and my betta. I understand now it was wrong, but they were happy. I lost one tetra, but that’s it.
My parameters have been great, I’ve had no crashes. Recently, my betta, Alkaline, would have energy spasms and flare and chase after my 4 tetras. So I did what I thought was best, I quickly removed the tetras and rehomed them to a friend with a 10/15 gallon tank. They are happier, and I thought my Alkaline would be happier.
He is struggling, he is lethargic, I will catch him laying around for hours, and when it first started I noticed his very top fin getting straggly. And now I noticed he has a cloudy white spot on his almost now non-existent top tail. He is eating well (I have a rotation of frozen bloodworms, mysin shrimp, fluval bug bites, and new life spectrum betta pellets), and whenever I’m around the tank he pipes up and swims around but always filters to the bottom.
I just recently added tannins in the water to decrease stress and act as a natural medicine. I have been taking them out after a day and adding new ones since removing the tetras on wednesday. (They are still releasing the tannins)
I wanted to be a good betta owner, I really tried.
I have a sponge filter, a heater, and a 24/7 cycle light. I still have the 3 nerite snails, and tons of plants.
On hand I have kanaplex, but I DO NOT have a hospital tank. I have the ability to go and buy something today if I need to. But please help me.
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Posted by Rileyanimaldog
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the tetras might have stressed him out and caused this. if hes eating, dont use the kanaplex. start with tannins and reduce or just turn the light off so he feels clandestine and lowers his cortisol levels
If you have the ability to buy a hospital take, I would do so. His fins looked clamped and he’s likely stressed so tannins will likely help. His fins don’t look too rotted so a few doses of Kanaplex may help but make sure to follow the instructions. Is he eating normally? How long have you had him?
Wow. Looks like you are doing everything right. Not sure you would need a hospital tank if you have nothing else in the tank other than a few snails.
For white stuff appearing on any part of the body, I usually just net, hold them slightly above the water and either dunk a q-tip in methylene blue and lightly dab the area with it, or just drip a tiny drop or two on the area, usually that helps a lot with fungal and general wounds.
What is your tank temp ?
Ok so he has clamped fins and has a fungal infection on the top fin. I don’t see anything telling us what your water parameters are . Have you checked that? You should do a water test like now! If your levels are anything but 0 ammonia 0 nitrites and low 0-15ppm nitrates then you need to do an immediate water change and make sure your treating your water with either prime or api aqua essentials . Another thing the test strips don’t really work well so instead of buying a hospital tank go buy the api freshwater master testing kit it’s like $35.00 at petsmart and petco and remember this they price match so if you find it cheaper online they will match it. I can help you further after you test your water .