I know it has to be something obvious, but I've tried everything to stop these deaths and I'm at a total loss now as to what to do.
My bettas have all been dieing, one by one, of the same disease. The only bettas that have survived are ones kept in tanks that have carbon filters. Most of my bettas are kept in 1-2.5 gallon tanks. They are not kept together, never share the same tanks, and are dieing even if fed different foods from each other. Nothing is shared between the tanks. All the fish are bribed with food to swim into their own personal cups for tank cleaning, so no shared nets either.
They all get aged tap water, conditioned with a basic water conditioner, and their tanks are cleaned out once a day, to once every other day. They are slowly adjusted to the tank water, and the water is kept at normal betta temperatures. There is nothing odd about the water tests, and test them I have.
The fish all have the same thing happen. It starts with paralysis on one side, which goes away. Then the fish abruptly loses all of its fins. Then it looks like they're attacked by some sort of flesh eating disease, followed by pine-coning (Dropsy) and death. They are happy, eating, and even blowing bubble nests up to an hour before they die, even if their fins are missing.
The PH is normal. (7.0) no ammonia, no nothing. I even went out and bought a new test kit because I thought my current one wasn't working. They do not respond to anti-bacterial medication, anti-fungal, anti-parasite, anti-anything.
I'm thinking it must be something in the water itself, and when I switched to buying them water from the store, it actually reversed the progress of the disease in one of my fish, but what the heck would cause that? My conditioner is supposed to get rid of heavy metals and chlorine, and I've tried different conditioners just in case.
My mother thinks the water is radio-active from some melt down that happened the next city over, but I'm not sure what's going on.
My bettas have all been dieing, one by one, of the same disease. The only bettas that have survived are ones kept in tanks that have carbon filters. Most of my bettas are kept in 1-2.5 gallon tanks. They are not kept together, never share the same tanks, and are dieing even if fed different foods from each other. Nothing is shared between the tanks. All the fish are bribed with food to swim into their own personal cups for tank cleaning, so no shared nets either.
They all get aged tap water, conditioned with a basic water conditioner, and their tanks are cleaned out once a day, to once every other day. They are slowly adjusted to the tank water, and the water is kept at normal betta temperatures. There is nothing odd about the water tests, and test them I have.
The fish all have the same thing happen. It starts with paralysis on one side, which goes away. Then the fish abruptly loses all of its fins. Then it looks like they're attacked by some sort of flesh eating disease, followed by pine-coning (Dropsy) and death. They are happy, eating, and even blowing bubble nests up to an hour before they die, even if their fins are missing.
The PH is normal. (7.0) no ammonia, no nothing. I even went out and bought a new test kit because I thought my current one wasn't working. They do not respond to anti-bacterial medication, anti-fungal, anti-parasite, anti-anything.
I'm thinking it must be something in the water itself, and when I switched to buying them water from the store, it actually reversed the progress of the disease in one of my fish, but what the heck would cause that? My conditioner is supposed to get rid of heavy metals and chlorine, and I've tried different conditioners just in case.
My mother thinks the water is radio-active from some melt down that happened the next city over, but I'm not sure what's going on.
sorry to hear about your bettas
