help me, i dont want my fish to die?

Question

i bought tetra that were carrying a disease and gave it 2 my betta & now he has fin & body rot the odd thing is it happened in 1 day starting @ the base of his Dorsal fin & moving directly onto his body the scales around his dorsal fin r now gone ive been treating him with Maracyn 1 & 2, Jungle Fungus clear, stress coat & cloraphil so that way it would b easier 4 him 2 breath & less stressfull on his gills. his dorsal fin is almost completely gone except 4 the back part which is black now & the area around it seems a bit swollen. he also has a fungal infection, including a small patch on his mouth that seems 2 b going away. ive been treating him for 2 days now and hes taken 2 swimming again, but he hasnt eaten in 4 days and refuses 2. i dont want 2 loose him, but despite my efforts the area around his dorsal seems 2 b getting bigger, & rotting away more. what can i do? will he live? will his scales and dorsal fin grow back? how long will it b b4 he gets better? & how can i get him 2 ea

Answer 1

Two days isn't enough time for the medication to work. This can take a few weeks to clear up, but you should limit your treatment to fewer meds. The blackening can be a sign of ammonia poisoning (the antibiotics will kill the beneficial bacteria that convert ammonia to the less toxic nitrate), but it can also mean that he's experiencing a chemical burn from being exposed to too many chemicals in the tank at once. I would stay with the two Maracyn products as the primary treatment, plus whatever you use to dechlorinate your water.

Also be sure you have the carbon out of your filter - the carbon may remove the medication and make the treatment less effective - don't put it back in the filter until the treatment is over. It also helps if you do a water change with a good gravel cleaning before starting any treatment - the organic wastes in the gravel can interact with some medications to reduce their effectiveness.

Because the antibiotics will cause the ammonia level to rise, you will probably find it necessary to do a water change sometime during these two weeks. I'd do a larger change than 25%, and do a good gravel cleaning at that time (if you didn't do this first). If you didn't remove the carbon, you could do the water change now, because there's less medication in the tank than there should be. When you do a water change, keep track of the volume you remove, and make it a volume that's easy to replace with the correct dosage (that is, if the medication is a tablet for every 10 gallons, remove water in multiples of 10 gallons). This makes it easier to replace the correct dosage.

Answer 2

Fish bowl not a home for fish. They even make them blind bcoz of the bulged glass. Also the oxygen supply will be continous only when the water at the surface is at constant circulation. Or provide bubbles from the bottom that makes the water chagne at the surface continously. Also keep an aquarium instead of a bowl, coz bowl get dirty very soon with the food itself and the tank also has to hold the excretes of the fish, however you ought to purify the water with a filter for the whole 24 hours. Over feeding is not the case when only two or three pellets or flexes are more, but it is the case when you feed a quantity more than what all your fished would finish in 5 minutes. There is no exact measure as to say what is more in quantity. It can be judged only with experience. But a begginer shall feed the fish not more than what they consume in 5 minutes, regardless of howmany fishes and of what size they are.

Answer 3

Sounds like columnaris. Maracyn by Mardel treats it. Most likely your fish is a goner. When you use medication, only use one kind. You have used 5 different things to treat the disease, some of which do nothing to help, which has probably made it worse. Columnaris is very hard to treat, especially when it is as advanced as yours. Next time, inspect potential pet fish very closely, and monitor ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. Most fish that are in clean water will not get these infections.

Answer 4

just keep treating him, that's all you can do. keep the water as clean as possible. I also recommend getting aquarium salt and adding this, 1/2 teaspoon to every gallon of water he's in. dissolve fully before putting with your betta. this won't help much, but if he survives it will help prevent in the future.

good luck, hope he pulls through!

Answer 5

Your fish is dead, finish him off now