Fin rot won’t go away
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Stop the melafix conpletely. I would start doing 25-30% water changes every 2 or 3 days for about 3-4 weeks. Should make a drastic difference.
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try aquarium salt and do 25 to 50% water changes daily day
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I agree with those above. Frequent and decently large water changes will not only help with the ammonia but will also help your betta heal. Do you have any snails or shrimp in the tank with the betta? If so, do not use aquarium salt. Are there any other fish in the tank? If your betta is stressed, this could also be why the fin rot is persisting. You need to get to the root of the problem to make sure it goes away. Is he behaving normally otherwise, or is he getting lethargic?
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Hello,
I would stop the Melafix I don’t think it will help. I would do a 75% water change and a 50% water change everyday after that until the fin is healed. Your water is acidic which makes me thing it is soft water guppies need hard water to survive long term and be healthy.If you water is soft the stress from that may be leaving your guppies vulnerable to fin rot. Can you test your water hardness? API makes a gh/kh liquid test kit. Below is a guide on treating fish with aquarium salt be careful to do your dilution calculations between water changes as salt does not evaporate. My betta used to tail bite and get fin rot and I’ve found this is the most effective treatment plan. I would highly recommend you find out your water hardness. This can be altered if necessary. I hope this helps
Aquarium Salt: When and How to Use It Properly
I would stop the Melafix I don’t think it will help. I would do a 75% water change and a 50% water change everyday after that until the fin is healed. Your water is acidic which makes me thing it is soft water guppies need hard water to survive long term and be healthy.If you water is soft the stress from that may be leaving your guppies vulnerable to fin rot. Can you test your water hardness? API makes a gh/kh liquid test kit. Below is a guide on treating fish with aquarium salt be careful to do your dilution calculations between water changes as salt does not evaporate. My betta used to tail bite and get fin rot and I’ve found this is the most effective treatment plan. I would highly recommend you find out your water hardness. This can be altered if necessary. I hope this helps
Aquarium Salt: When and How to Use It Properly
A slow but steady trick for adding calcium to the water and increase hardness is to get calcium, such as chicken grit, or maybe even broken up cuttlebone, in a mesh net in the filter. Slow but steady release. I’ve a friend who uses it in her pond for acidic water that was too acidic for her fish.
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Yes and if that not enough you can even buy “gh up“ products usually meant for shrimp tanks but I use them for my guppies. For example my water is 0 degreees hardness so adding a calcium source to the filter alone wasn’t enough.
Is that a betta or a guppy? I saw someone say betta but I think it's a guppy so I'll go with that and mention a few different things...
-I find guppies thrive much more in harder, less acidic water, and from what I've seen they will often really struggle at a pH below 7. Crushed coral or wonder shells are both really great ways to raise pH and hardness, but if you need more, I would recommend getting a product like seachem equilibrium of cichlid salt and mixing it in when you do water changes.
-You're probably already on it, but keep working on getting that ammonia reading down to zero, and make sure your nitrite is at zero as well, and your nitrate is under 40 ppm. Is this a new tank that's still getting established, or an ammonia spike in an older tank?
-Guppies can handle a lot of salt for treatment. What else is in your tank? If there are only other guppies and no live plants, I would add 1 tablespoon of aquarium salt per 2 gallons of water and maintain that salinity for at least a week, and if there's no improvement, make it 1 tablespoon per gallon. If you have live plants or other fish that might be more sensitive to salt, do you have a quarantine tank you can use? I'll talk more about this if you need.
-If you're in the states, it might not be a bad idea to get some antibiotics in there to help you fight that, since it's a pretty bad case and it might help to get some big guns in there. I find good water will help fight off mild or new infections, but this might be too much for that. Erythromycin would be my recommendation.
-I find guppies thrive much more in harder, less acidic water, and from what I've seen they will often really struggle at a pH below 7. Crushed coral or wonder shells are both really great ways to raise pH and hardness, but if you need more, I would recommend getting a product like seachem equilibrium of cichlid salt and mixing it in when you do water changes.
-You're probably already on it, but keep working on getting that ammonia reading down to zero, and make sure your nitrite is at zero as well, and your nitrate is under 40 ppm. Is this a new tank that's still getting established, or an ammonia spike in an older tank?
-Guppies can handle a lot of salt for treatment. What else is in your tank? If there are only other guppies and no live plants, I would add 1 tablespoon of aquarium salt per 2 gallons of water and maintain that salinity for at least a week, and if there's no improvement, make it 1 tablespoon per gallon. If you have live plants or other fish that might be more sensitive to salt, do you have a quarantine tank you can use? I'll talk more about this if you need.
-If you're in the states, it might not be a bad idea to get some antibiotics in there to help you fight that, since it's a pretty bad case and it might help to get some big guns in there. I find good water will help fight off mild or new infections, but this might be too much for that. Erythromycin would be my recommendation.
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