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Posted by BaBeL FiSh on April 23, 2006, 11:29 am
Please log in for more thread options Hello,
My usually healthy, happy betta seems to have something wrong. I am not
sure what the problem is, but his back-side seems to be (what I can only
describe as) "rotting away". A little of his tail is missing from around
there and he has what seems to be an injury or chunk taken out of his
back-side. He spends most of the day at the bottom or at the side of the
filter. That being said, when you walk in the room, he's straight up the
top begging for some food. He'll still go after the little pleco when he
sees it move as well. Water quality is fine and the other fish is doing
well. I have been using some anti-fungus/anti-fin rot treatment in the hope
it would get rid of whatever was causing it/help healing, but the situation
doesn't seem to be changing. It's something that appears to be getting
worse rather than better. I don't think he's injured himself on anything in
the tank from what I can see. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
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Posted by MEAlston on April 23, 2006, 1:00 pm
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You didn't mention whether your tank was using carbon as part of the
filtration...Carbon will render alot of meds useless.
Like Nik mentioned..I prefer using a little salt as well. I use 1 tbs per 5
gal myself. I've remember the healing properties it contributed when I kept
piranahs back in the '80s.
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Posted by Rick on April 23, 2006, 3:34 pm
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> You didn't mention whether your tank was using carbon as part of the
> filtration...Carbon will render alot of meds useless.
> Like Nik mentioned..I prefer using a little salt as well. I use 1 tbs per
> 5
> gal myself. I've remember the healing properties it contributed when I
> kept
> piranahs back in the '80s.
>
>
Tbs or tsp? the packaging says Tbp, that's what I use if I use it.
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Posted by MEAlston on April 23, 2006, 4:08 pm
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tsp..sorry...I use 1 tsp per 5 gallons as my salinity balance. 1 Tbs/5
gallons for treatment tanks.
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Posted by Mister Gardener on April 23, 2006, 4:24 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:08:42 GMT, "MEAlston"
>tsp..sorry...I use 1 tsp per 5 gallons as my salinity balance. 1 Tbs/5
>gallons for treatment tanks.
>
FWIW - precise measurement of chemicals has been an important part of
my life's work. The teaspoonful (5 ml) and the tablespoonful (15 mls)
is probably the most frequent cause of errors, either written
incorrectly or read incorrectly. Another reason we should be using the
metric system world wide - but I would like to suggest that when
anyone mentions one of those two measurements, please be safe and
certain by spelling out teaspoonful or tablespoonful instead of
relying on abbreviations. As you can see, one of them is 3 times the
amount of the other, and a misplaced b or p can have profound effects
on the treatment.
-- Mister Gardener
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> filtration...Carbon will render alot of meds useless.
> Like Nik mentioned..I prefer using a little salt as well. I use 1 tbs per
> 5
> gal myself. I've remember the healing properties it contributed when I
> kept
> piranahs back in the '80s.
>
>