DiegosMom
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ello,
First, my apologies for the book I'm about to write... I'm in search of some help with my boy, Diego. He's my first betta. I got him a year ago. He's been healthy the whole time except some minor fin rot he easily recovered from right after I brought him home. I have researched quite a bit to try to be the best betta owner I can be. I'm afraid I'm currently failing him though. He's in a 10gallon tank alone with silk plants. I clean/vac his tank regularly once a week (probably about a 30-35% wc), but have changed to every 2-3 days if anything looks funky. I usually use prime during water changes, but the last few weeks I started using **** ResQ, or **** Quinex because he was getting little grayish balls on his fin that would fall off days later and take the fin below with it. I upped the water changes and started using res q or quinex instead. It would go away and then come back a week or 2 later. Finally, the little balls stopped. HOWEVER.....
Most recently, I found him bloated out of nowhere one morning. I alternate all different kinds of food, but I have not soaked pellets whenever feeding those. He's never had an issue. I alternate between hikari pellets, NLS small pellets, bug bite flakes, freeze dried Daphnia, and frozen brine shrimp. I fasted him for 2 days and then fed a little bit of the freeze dried daphnia. I also added 8 total teaspoons Epsom salt to the tank slowly, over 2 days. He didnt seem to mind the salt, but no luck. The next day I did a 20% water change, but didn't add back any salt. I tried a piece of a green pea. No luck. He just keeps getting more and more bloated. I went and got frozen daphnia instead and tried a little bit of that today. So far, nothing. I read and read a million different places about bloating, sbd, or dropsy over the last few days. I decided I needed to do something today, so I started API general cure.
He isn't pineconing in my opinion, but I just might be in denial! There are lifted scales, BUT only on the bloated part of him. None on the top. Only where they are being pushed out from the bloating.
Can anyone help me with ideas of what to do? Did I screw up by putting Epsom salt in the tank and starting meds? I'm attaching a collage starting from day 1 until today. Also more pictures from today to show no pineconing on the top of him anywhere.
I appreciate any advice. If you need additional info, just let me know. Thank you so much!
First, my apologies for the book I'm about to write... I'm in search of some help with my boy, Diego. He's my first betta. I got him a year ago. He's been healthy the whole time except some minor fin rot he easily recovered from right after I brought him home. I have researched quite a bit to try to be the best betta owner I can be. I'm afraid I'm currently failing him though. He's in a 10gallon tank alone with silk plants. I clean/vac his tank regularly once a week (probably about a 30-35% wc), but have changed to every 2-3 days if anything looks funky. I usually use prime during water changes, but the last few weeks I started using **** ResQ, or **** Quinex because he was getting little grayish balls on his fin that would fall off days later and take the fin below with it. I upped the water changes and started using res q or quinex instead. It would go away and then come back a week or 2 later. Finally, the little balls stopped. HOWEVER.....
Most recently, I found him bloated out of nowhere one morning. I alternate all different kinds of food, but I have not soaked pellets whenever feeding those. He's never had an issue. I alternate between hikari pellets, NLS small pellets, bug bite flakes, freeze dried Daphnia, and frozen brine shrimp. I fasted him for 2 days and then fed a little bit of the freeze dried daphnia. I also added 8 total teaspoons Epsom salt to the tank slowly, over 2 days. He didnt seem to mind the salt, but no luck. The next day I did a 20% water change, but didn't add back any salt. I tried a piece of a green pea. No luck. He just keeps getting more and more bloated. I went and got frozen daphnia instead and tried a little bit of that today. So far, nothing. I read and read a million different places about bloating, sbd, or dropsy over the last few days. I decided I needed to do something today, so I started API general cure.
He isn't pineconing in my opinion, but I just might be in denial! There are lifted scales, BUT only on the bloated part of him. None on the top. Only where they are being pushed out from the bloating.
Can anyone help me with ideas of what to do? Did I screw up by putting Epsom salt in the tank and starting meds? I'm attaching a collage starting from day 1 until today. Also more pictures from today to show no pineconing on the top of him anywhere.
I appreciate any advice. If you need additional info, just let me know. Thank you so much!
