Betta Fish??

Question

Ok, I'm confused about my bettas. one boy and one girl. I put them in the same tank with deviders in it because I don't want a tank full of baby betta fish!! My 4 year old sister did the same thing, she put deviders in the tank but,,, the baby fish got an ick and died. then, we kept her other fish but it got the same ick and died also, it must have passed the ick on to it because they were in the same tank.... Should I leave my fish with deviders or separate them into different tanks???? HELP

Answer 1

I think that you should seperate them into different tanks. It could easily spread! I remember when my school's fish tank had ick! It all started with one fish, then two, and, then, it seemed like ALL of the fish had this icky (lol!) mess! Unless you want them to all die, I would recommend that you seperate them. Thanks,

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Answer 2

Ick or white spot, lives on all fish, if the fish becomes stressed, Ick can outbreak, as well as poor water conditons. Ick is highly containjous and needs to be treated soon as you see the white spots, you can get over counter med for white spot. But when you do take the carbon out (if you got any in the filter) as this will asbord the med and the teatment wont do anything.
Dont do a a whole water change, you could just send the tank out of whack.,I.E. Mini cycle which will cause more problems.
Do about 50% water change (you dont say what size tank they in.) Read the instructions on the white spot treatment and if you follow through correctly it will clear up in time. Do not put any other fish in with your others as they will catch it.

Answer 3

Ich is a parasite with a few different stages in its life cycle. Only one stage is on the fish - the rest are in the water. This is why the parasite was able to infect both fish in your sister's tank - they could move through the divieder, even if the fish couldn't.

What your concern should be is do either of your fish currently have ich? If not, you have nothing to worry about as long as you don't use items from your sister's tank in yours or add any live plants or other fish without quarantining them first to make sure they're healthy. Ich isn't caused by stress (although stress can lower your fish's resistance to any disease or parasite), and it doesn't always live in your tank or on your fish. If you don't have it in your tank, and don't give it a way to get in, it won't matter that you have two fish in the same tank.

Answer 4

no do not do 100%! that will wipe out all of your beneficial bacteria in the tank. do about a 50% water change, and if you have a heater turn it up to about 84-86 degrees and leave it there while you are treating. add some aquarium salt to it. i think the measurement is 1 tablespoon for 5 gallons, but i'm not sure. repeat this process for about 3 days and your ick should be gone.

Answer 5

you dont ought to purchase yet another tank in simple terms flow to walmart or petsmart and purchase a gold fish bowl and he or she could be happy that way she will consume and don't complication approximately gettin attacked! If a woman that wasn’t ripe, or waiting for spawning, could have entered a men tank, it’s conceivable that she could’ve been attacked, as non-ripe women are no longer tolerated interior the area of the nest. by employing no longer fleeing, a woman shows her readiness to spawn. confident, some circumstances in case you're no longer careful while attempting too breed bettas, the male will attack the female and he can injure the female, the ladies are plenty smaller than the lads. A Male and a woman: interior the wild, women evade men, different than in the time of mating. while cohabiting in tanks, men could kill women, and are in many circumstances saved aside till (a) they are juvenile siblings, (b) they are breeding, (c) there's a partition, or (d) the tank is sufficiently huge for the female to flee attack. in lots of circumstances, in the previous breeding, breeders use the style of field to allow lady reveal without risking injury by employing the male. 2 or extra women: Bettas are no longer training fish, yet in a extensive tank with many hiding areas, lady bettas can cohabit. while 2 women share a tank, one often bullies the different, besides the shown fact that, 4 or extra women will set up a hierarchy permitting non violent co-existence, regardless of the reality that, women living in community must be monitored for aggressive women.

Answer 6

Hi Madi. You have a lot of answers here, but what no one knows is what size tank you have them in, and also were they all bought at the same time from the same place?? Also, does it look like someone sprinkled them with salt, or does it look more like a blanket of white stuff?? This would be helpful to know because it could be 2 or 3 different things.

If it looks like a blanket, it needs different medication then what you would use for ich. That's why it is important to know.

I also really need to know what size tank you have them in so I can even tell you how much aquarium or non-iodized salt to put in the tank to help. So if you can send me an e-mail (click on my picture and then hit the "send an e-mail" button, and tell me in that what size tank you have, I will tell you how to help your fish (or ask your parents to e-mail me). If you want to tell your parents, tell them it's 1 tablespoon of salt for each 5 gallons of water. Therefore, if it's a 5 gallon tank, you can put in 1 tablespoon of salt (melt it in tank water in another cup before putting it in the tank). It HAS to be non-iodized table salt, if you use iodized salt, it will kill them. If you have a heater on the tank, slowly raise the temp up to 82-84 also, this along with the salt will help kill the ich. (But if it's the blanket looking stuff you need an antibiotic from the fish store.)

Good luck! ;o)

Answer 7

ick is due to poor water conditions. Your betta fish is probably in something as small as 1 gallon or you havent been doing water changes. Other fish cant pass ick. The ick that you see on fish, hatches (the white spot is really an egg) and it releases cells into the tank to latch onto other fish. So yeah. Id do a 100% water change. Try that.

Answer 8

just take care of your fish by cleaning the tank,feeding them right,and looking 4 strange behavior if u c any strange behavior from either one of them get it checked by the vet or somethin

Answer 9

New tanks.Or clean the water and tank really good.

Answer 10

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