the bottom is dense and the top of the water is free for him to swim
My betta has been suffering fungus for 2 months now
and once it stopped but came back
so i gave him a filter, heated his water, and such
BUT its back and attacking him at a faster rate
and I think he's suffering PopEye
one eye is big, then next day it gets small but the other eye gets big
yesterday i bought a gravel cleaner and tried using it
stead I made a big mess
and there's pink gravel dust everywhere and I was thinking
should I do a 100% change, take out his air pump
(his filter has an air pump as well..so there's like 2 now)
put some aquarium salt
and give him his medicine again and turn the filter off?Problem with Betta...need advice?
You must treat the diseases with special medicine again.
Getting the tank clean will remove the cause of the fungus and popeye.
Hope this helps, hope this little guy gets better soon.
I agree with the other answerers that 100% change is too drastic and too much for the fish. This was my gut feeling at first.
Good luck!Problem with Betta...need advice?
Don't do 100% water change- change out 35 % of the water.
Get him some Melafix- that treats fungal for sure and I think pop eye.
If the gravel vac is too big use a turkey baster to siphon out the gunk from his tank.
You shouldn't need to turn of the filter for the melafix- it says it doesn't kill bacteria, but if your worried take out the carbon.
well dont do such a drastic water change because that might kill the fish. what you should do is take out the filter cartiadge because carbon will filter the medicine out of the tank. do not bother wit the aquarium salt. the debry in the tank is normal because u recently just used a gravel vac. let it settle. treat the guy wit the proper medication and try not to disturb the tank anymore because the more u disturb the tank the more the fish is going to be stressed.
You can buy bettafix at petsmart. it will cure any disease that a beta could have. Do not buy Melafix, the dosage is too big and will kill your betta.
If you do not treat it, the betta will die.
After it is treated, follow the instructions on the bottle. You will have to do a water change
Good luck
wow.. that is one filtered tank. so what's his tank temp at? a good temp range for a betta should be somewhere between 75F and 80F and holding steady. fluctuating heat is just as bad for him as too cool of water.
adding aquarium salt in the tank should help out your betta's slime coat and might make it harder for the fungus to survive. and adding products like ';cycle'; or ';betta fix'; might help your guy out. in fact bettafix is a tea tree oil based med meant specifically for bettas and helps boost their immune systems so you might try this.
do you think the tank has too much current? while he's not feeling that well it might be a good idea to slow down the turbulent waters just so he can get a break.
you could do a 100% water change but that means you will get an ammonia spike even as quickly as in 24 hrs and this may be too much for your sick betta to take! there shouldn't be anything wrong with the water if your filters are running. the carbon in the filters will clean the water right out and even take the meds out if you wanted to try some other form of medication. make sure you're not mixing meds that shouldn't be mixed. just test the water and unless there's a spike in a level where there shouldn't be... i'd leave his water alone.
good luck, it's so frustrating doing everything you can to save a fish and then just have to watch and hope.
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