my female Betta needs help

[animal lover]

My baby girl is in a bit of a rut...about af month ago I noticed what looked like a cut, so I treated the tank with melafix to help it get better...unfortunatly it didn't so I took her out and have her in her own 2g home....and have been treating her with betta remedy and salt(yes aquarium salt just in case someone wants to ask...lol)....today I was taking a look at her and noticed what looks like fish bones coming out of her back...now does anyone think I can treat it or is it a hopeless cause..she is still eating but I don't want her to be in anymore pain than needed...Please help I feel horrible leaving her like this

 

[mcshell]

i felt sorry for her.
it sounds like she has a serious fin/body rot: http://bettatalk.com/betta_diseases.htm

You can look at above site for cure methods. Hope she'll okay.

 

[animal lover]

I read up on the fin/body rot and it has some of the same symptoms but it didn't go after the fins first it started with the body as a cut......I'm going to do everything possible to help her but I can only let her suffer for so long....

 

[Iggy]

Jungle Anti-Fungus or Maracyn MIGHT kill the infection. Melafix/Bettafix/Bettamax are only mild treatments, they are not good substitutes for a true antibiotic or fungus medicine.

Sorry to hear about your girl

 

[inline_sk8a]

Some of you may not agree with this but The way i treated a bad case of fin rot was; i seperated the fish from the other fish then put a pinch of salt in the water!

My fish healed quite quickly!!

Hope your fish gets betta!

 

[animal lover]

well just salt isn't gonna work on something as serious as fin rot....I will have to pick up some of the stuff you said Iggy...now one thing I need to know is does she need a filter in there when I treat her with that stuff or is she okay in a 2g tank(plastic)

 

[animal lover]

I do have some Maroxy...would that be good or should I get some of the other stuff you mentioned??????

 

[Lotus]

My chart says Maroxy works against bacterial and fungal infections, so it should be OK. Check the pack to see if the symptoms match.

 

[animal lover]

Allright so I picked up a teeny tiny aquarium to put her into, I think its a 3 or 4g not quite sure cause I got it at a flea market, and have now started the maroxy treatment...So everyone cross their fingers and say a little prayer for her and hopefully in a weeks time she'll be good as new.....I noticed though when ever I try to move her she bleeds from her sore, and eveytime it worries me a little more....within a minute or 2 the bleeding stops.....is that just because its an open wound or do you think it could be something else?????

 

[animal lover]

I've ben watching her and she seems to be possibly(hopefully) getting better but I've noticed she's got horizontal stripes...could that be cause she's sick/injured???what else could it mean?????

 

[Iggy]

Hi AL, horizontal means fear most times. She just may be scared of her new surroundings, which is normal.

Whenever you treat a tank its a good idea to remove the carbon filter. The quaranteen tank is a good idea. Make only small water changes as perscribed by the medicine.

Keep treating her, try not to handle her anymore if you can, and keep her company, keep her engaged buy visiting and talking, it made a big difference when Finchy got really ill.

 

[animal lover]

Well unfortunatly I found my baby girl dead today...she was over come by body fungus.. I was in the field for the last couple days and the neighbour was feeding them and my cats and he doesn't know about fish so he didn't realize what was wrong....but hey at least she's not hurting anymore.....RIP cranky pants....thats what I called her cause she was a cranky fish, beating up on the others....lol

 

[Iggy]

Sorry about your loss AL.

If your near the Edmonton Area, you can have one of my fry females for free if you pick her up I will have about 100 girls to choose from in February!

 

[animal lover]

I would love to take some of your females off your hands but unfortunatly I live in Ontario and it would be a pretty long trip to get them....Thanx for the offer though

 

[Neon-blu]

I'm sorry! -huggles- You must feel really bad. Eating Ice cream helps thoug. -nods- It makes you think about caffine other than the thing you're mourning.

 

[mcshell]

sorry for your lost.
betta is really hard to let go.