Does dropsey happen all over the body all at once or does it start in a little area? I am thinking if it is internal liver failure, that it would be the whole body showing symptoms.
I ask because I have a betta who seemed to have a legion/wound in between it's eye and gills, with a little white patch on it. Thought it was ich but I think that the white is indeed from a wound, merely puss, and not ich. There are no other spots on this fish, all my fish are healthy, and this specific fish shows no signs of ill health (eating like a pig, sprinting around the tank, not rubbing, completely normal behaviour).
So I go on the internet to look up disease, start being a fish hyperchondriac, and notice the legion /wound kinda poofs out with a bit of the pine cone looking effect.
I want to rule out dropsey so I can stop freaking out. Can I do that? I squirted melafix in the tank around the betta. It seemed mad that it wasn't food. It was a bit useless as the tank is 30g and I don't have enough melafix to fit the proper dosage.
Perhaps the betta tripped and bumped into a rock or got too close to an algae waffer the others were eating.
Just changed the water today, I change it every week or two depending on time. So this all maybe because of water condition. I noticed the wound before the change.
Ammo= 0 n02=0 no3=something low I don't test gh or kh. tank has been cycled and stable for about a year. I raised the water temp from 78 to 82.
thanks for information
I ask because I have a betta who seemed to have a legion/wound in between it's eye and gills, with a little white patch on it. Thought it was ich but I think that the white is indeed from a wound, merely puss, and not ich. There are no other spots on this fish, all my fish are healthy, and this specific fish shows no signs of ill health (eating like a pig, sprinting around the tank, not rubbing, completely normal behaviour).
So I go on the internet to look up disease, start being a fish hyperchondriac, and notice the legion /wound kinda poofs out with a bit of the pine cone looking effect.
I want to rule out dropsey so I can stop freaking out. Can I do that? I squirted melafix in the tank around the betta. It seemed mad that it wasn't food. It was a bit useless as the tank is 30g and I don't have enough melafix to fit the proper dosage.
Perhaps the betta tripped and bumped into a rock or got too close to an algae waffer the others were eating.
Just changed the water today, I change it every week or two depending on time. So this all maybe because of water condition. I noticed the wound before the change.
Ammo= 0 n02=0 no3=something low I don't test gh or kh. tank has been cycled and stable for about a year. I raised the water temp from 78 to 82.
thanks for information
