Hi, I bought a betta from a US breeder. the fish took the whole 24 hours to get out of the bag, courtesy of the USPS Express.
He had a gray head to his gills, now insintctively I thought his face is gonna rot off. I cannot get pictures with my digital yet.
I need to compare notes. I treated with clean water and most of the gray OMG head cleared up, there are lesions and pitting behind his eyes. He has a gray scale mark in the center of his fish head joining to the body next to the gills.
He is losing color as a red pictured here, with pink irridescance to purple as a cambodian. I am upset, firstly, I asked for a mug shot from the breeder, and two he is showing spots through his solid fins that were described to me as pictured and just out of the bag he had initially the 100% red-cambo opaque. He was really beating his bag up with punt sounds as I was cutting the knots open. I did three sets of the 5-1 test dips for my gallon and his bag. I did see pink water...would that be amquel or the nitrates leeching his feathery fins?
I did three sets of water tests bag and my water all normal. and continue those. I have him quarentined until I see improvement as he has red mark, sores?? on his gill cheeks, that flap and keep his face from flaring for me as the face flare opens and the beard drops down. Nothing like that yet is happenng to show his enthusiasim or beard of good gill health.
Melafix for the possible HLLE, I did do 5 drops two night ago, 7 drops last night for the sores and to see if I would see reddening---His face reddened temporarily, the first night and the second stayed red very under skin red, not muich improve over the 'sores' at the cheeks.
So, today I started General Cure a pea size dose cures HNH (and other bacteral, fungus and anchor) with some Mysis tonight... which he ate some, what can I expect? how long should I do this? I have his five gallon ready tomorrow and want to leave the whisper cartridge out until he is done with meds. then again I am thinking the smalller tank is easier to monitor until he is better for the five g.
This red cambo HM colors go to brown, under which at the first change I suspected fin rot which HLLE Head and lateral line, I owuld like to blame that instead of a protozoa I cannot see. I do not blame the seller, they are not a pet store.
Does this sound like I have it right? I am flying bby the back of pacages and a pet store filp card. Most of all, the pitting I might be seeing ro the body redness doesnot look like the web pictures of HNH which is more commonly diagnosed in other types of fish. Am I confused? I will say that his appetite has picked up he was only eating 1-2 worms/ shirmp a day, not otuching hikari and the breeder said the fish was fed those. why isn;t he eating 'fresh' pellets? He did replace the food I could see through him after I gave him the Melafix, appetite picked up 2x more. I was also leaving him at 80 degrees anything colder looks sick in color.
I mean I never expected the drastic color variation in colder 70-74 room temps. So, how do red irridescant Bettas look in cold water-- a very brown thin veined look happened... I htought the water ws rotting his fins,killing him so fast it scared me! Could under reddness also body fungus, with sudden red streaks ??? I have white nonirridescant patches going on now cheecks.....etc and one strand as broken off at the dorsal. As he warms even at 78, I see brown anal/ dorsal adn some caudial changes patches of clear to brown and the bright red nearly disapears. Temp related only...? what of the veining,,again back of common packages shown Hemmorraigic sept as the same cheap illustration of the viens in the doral..I am dumb, please help. The fish is brand new and there is not another to replace him.
What about the melafix combination? I am sorry I can;t get a good pic at all yet, hoping the description helps anyway.
Thanks to all who have info, and suggestions!
He had a gray head to his gills, now insintctively I thought his face is gonna rot off. I cannot get pictures with my digital yet.
I need to compare notes. I treated with clean water and most of the gray OMG head cleared up, there are lesions and pitting behind his eyes. He has a gray scale mark in the center of his fish head joining to the body next to the gills.
He is losing color as a red pictured here, with pink irridescance to purple as a cambodian. I am upset, firstly, I asked for a mug shot from the breeder, and two he is showing spots through his solid fins that were described to me as pictured and just out of the bag he had initially the 100% red-cambo opaque. He was really beating his bag up with punt sounds as I was cutting the knots open. I did three sets of the 5-1 test dips for my gallon and his bag. I did see pink water...would that be amquel or the nitrates leeching his feathery fins?
I did three sets of water tests bag and my water all normal. and continue those. I have him quarentined until I see improvement as he has red mark, sores?? on his gill cheeks, that flap and keep his face from flaring for me as the face flare opens and the beard drops down. Nothing like that yet is happenng to show his enthusiasim or beard of good gill health.
Melafix for the possible HLLE, I did do 5 drops two night ago, 7 drops last night for the sores and to see if I would see reddening---His face reddened temporarily, the first night and the second stayed red very under skin red, not muich improve over the 'sores' at the cheeks.
So, today I started General Cure a pea size dose cures HNH (and other bacteral, fungus and anchor) with some Mysis tonight... which he ate some, what can I expect? how long should I do this? I have his five gallon ready tomorrow and want to leave the whisper cartridge out until he is done with meds. then again I am thinking the smalller tank is easier to monitor until he is better for the five g.
This red cambo HM colors go to brown, under which at the first change I suspected fin rot which HLLE Head and lateral line, I owuld like to blame that instead of a protozoa I cannot see. I do not blame the seller, they are not a pet store.
Does this sound like I have it right? I am flying bby the back of pacages and a pet store filp card. Most of all, the pitting I might be seeing ro the body redness doesnot look like the web pictures of HNH which is more commonly diagnosed in other types of fish. Am I confused? I will say that his appetite has picked up he was only eating 1-2 worms/ shirmp a day, not otuching hikari and the breeder said the fish was fed those. why isn;t he eating 'fresh' pellets? He did replace the food I could see through him after I gave him the Melafix, appetite picked up 2x more. I was also leaving him at 80 degrees anything colder looks sick in color.
I mean I never expected the drastic color variation in colder 70-74 room temps. So, how do red irridescant Bettas look in cold water-- a very brown thin veined look happened... I htought the water ws rotting his fins,killing him so fast it scared me! Could under reddness also body fungus, with sudden red streaks ??? I have white nonirridescant patches going on now cheecks.....etc and one strand as broken off at the dorsal. As he warms even at 78, I see brown anal/ dorsal adn some caudial changes patches of clear to brown and the bright red nearly disapears. Temp related only...? what of the veining,,again back of common packages shown Hemmorraigic sept as the same cheap illustration of the viens in the doral..I am dumb, please help. The fish is brand new and there is not another to replace him.
What about the melafix combination? I am sorry I can;t get a good pic at all yet, hoping the description helps anyway.
Thanks to all who have info, and suggestions!
