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A few days ago i rescued a male betta with a pretty bad case of fin rot, which was very close to his body in some places. He also seemed to have some ammonia burns on his gills.
I put him in a 2 gallon quarantine tank, with some catappa leaves, a heater and a filter that had been running in a tank for about 4 months, and I set the temperature to 25.5 °C/77.9 °F, and I treated him with Kanaplex.
At the end of the 3rd day of treatment (last night), I noticed that he had some white spots, which I am pretty sure are ich.
I read that ich can be cured using heat (but I also read that that would accelerate the fin rot) and medicine that have malachite green. I happened to have Sera's Omnipur, which contains malachite green oxalate and is said to treat fin rot, bacterial infections, fungal infections, gill and skin flukes and skin injuries and wounds.
I was wondering if it would be safe to administer that after 4 days of treatment with Kanaplex, since Sera says not to combine Omnipur with other medications, and since I am afraid that his body won't be able to handle this amount of medicine.
Also, please let me know if there are any better treatments I should try.
I've added 3 picturess where you can see the white spot on his head, which is the most noticable out of all of them, and a picture from 2 days ago that shows the extent of his fin rot. Also, some of the white spots in the picture are dirt that's in the outside of the aquarium, not on the inside.




I put him in a 2 gallon quarantine tank, with some catappa leaves, a heater and a filter that had been running in a tank for about 4 months, and I set the temperature to 25.5 °C/77.9 °F, and I treated him with Kanaplex.
At the end of the 3rd day of treatment (last night), I noticed that he had some white spots, which I am pretty sure are ich.
I read that ich can be cured using heat (but I also read that that would accelerate the fin rot) and medicine that have malachite green. I happened to have Sera's Omnipur, which contains malachite green oxalate and is said to treat fin rot, bacterial infections, fungal infections, gill and skin flukes and skin injuries and wounds.
I was wondering if it would be safe to administer that after 4 days of treatment with Kanaplex, since Sera says not to combine Omnipur with other medications, and since I am afraid that his body won't be able to handle this amount of medicine.
Also, please let me know if there are any better treatments I should try.
I've added 3 picturess where you can see the white spot on his head, which is the most noticable out of all of them, and a picture from 2 days ago that shows the extent of his fin rot. Also, some of the white spots in the picture are dirt that's in the outside of the aquarium, not on the inside.



