cdwag29
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Hi. This is my first post on here so forgive me If i made any mistakes.
I have a male beta who recently has gotten ill recently. It started with tears in the fins..which progressed to fungus. I tried to treat this using methylene blue and water changes. This past weekened I stayed at a friends, and I came home to find a ton of uneaten food in his tank and the fungus had multipled and was now covering all edges of his fins. I went out and bought maracyn for this..but to my dismay I came home today to find slight swelling in his stomach, gold patches, and possible pineconing (not noticble from above, only while swimming.) before I added the maracyn I removed his plants and added them to my display tank, in fear the medication would kill them. Then I noticed the gold patches and removed the plants and put them in a bucket, as I panicked after reading velvet can be transfered on plants. I’m very stressed and I have no idea what to do for my beta. Currently, like I already said I added the maracyn, raised the temperature to 78, and dimmed his lights.
10 Gal Tank
0 Ammonia
0 Nitrite
5 Nitrate
7 KH and 4-5 GH
PH 7.6
Symptoms are lethargicy, fungus, swelling in stomach, possible pineconing, dull in color, labored breathing, and loss of appitite.
Ive been doing water changes every other day to try and combat the fungus. On a normal sceduale, I try to do them weekly but I struggle from several mental illnesses and it can be really hard for me to motivate myself, so sometimes I do them once every two week. I feed him soaked aquenon and tetra pellets, along with soaked freeze dried food. He wont eat frozen brine shrimp. The pictures attached dont really show the gold film covering him.
I have no idea what caused this, and no idea how to help. Any advice is much appreciated.
I have a male beta who recently has gotten ill recently. It started with tears in the fins..which progressed to fungus. I tried to treat this using methylene blue and water changes. This past weekened I stayed at a friends, and I came home to find a ton of uneaten food in his tank and the fungus had multipled and was now covering all edges of his fins. I went out and bought maracyn for this..but to my dismay I came home today to find slight swelling in his stomach, gold patches, and possible pineconing (not noticble from above, only while swimming.) before I added the maracyn I removed his plants and added them to my display tank, in fear the medication would kill them. Then I noticed the gold patches and removed the plants and put them in a bucket, as I panicked after reading velvet can be transfered on plants. I’m very stressed and I have no idea what to do for my beta. Currently, like I already said I added the maracyn, raised the temperature to 78, and dimmed his lights.
10 Gal Tank
0 Ammonia
0 Nitrite
5 Nitrate
7 KH and 4-5 GH
PH 7.6
Symptoms are lethargicy, fungus, swelling in stomach, possible pineconing, dull in color, labored breathing, and loss of appitite.
Ive been doing water changes every other day to try and combat the fungus. On a normal sceduale, I try to do them weekly but I struggle from several mental illnesses and it can be really hard for me to motivate myself, so sometimes I do them once every two week. I feed him soaked aquenon and tetra pellets, along with soaked freeze dried food. He wont eat frozen brine shrimp. The pictures attached dont really show the gold film covering him.
I have no idea what caused this, and no idea how to help. Any advice is much appreciated.
The maracyn wouldn’t of helped with velvet, although maracyn 2 might’ve. I have no idea why he even got sick in the first place, and I have to say its a little disheartening to wake up to find him passed.