Artemiss harmed my betta! Fast answer please!

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So my Artemiss by Microbe-Lift has harmed my betta, when I gave him his first dose he totally would be fine, but the second dose he wasn't as fine as he was by first dose... Now he lays in the skull decor and has trouble swimming up, he just lays at the bottom of the skull and doesn't swim at all, he moves his fins and breaths..
There's not much to do here? But could I try and do something?

I dosed correctly the medication just like the bottle said so this is not my fault here, but when I was taking out the water out of the tank to dilute out the killer medication out of the tank I kinda squashed his tail (its not deformed) and his gill beard was out and he barely was swimming, he looked dead or paralyzed.

What to do?? Please help!
 
I'm sorry to hear that but is this the betta that was bloated? Like I wrote before you could try it but chances are very small you can cure it. I have often used it the past 10, 15 years (I used to help folks curing their fish) and have found it to be harmless even for delicate species. Artemis works fine but it's no miracle cure... that is never going to happen neither for humans or fish.
 
I'm not surprised by long finned bettas sitting, I'm even less surprised by a bloated betta doing it. Is this the same tank the air pump/filter broke down? How big is it and how much and how did you dose it?
 
I'm unsure on tank size, 30-32L or 40-42L ish. Dosed 3ml, at first I dosed waay too much but did a water change to dilute everything I dosed then dosed the 3ml and dosed it again after more than 12 hours.

I checked up on him today and he seems to be in a better state than he was yesterday; he'll swim shakily and will retreat to hide. I hope he'll make it, my sisters adore him.
 
That's kind of important to get that right, calculate the volume with the right dimensions first and foremost. Then if it no longer has an air pump you have to pre mix the dose in with a water change... that is very important with anything you add to the water when there is no circulation. I hope he will get better but I doubt it, as I wrote once a fish is bloated chances are very small this can be reversed... if you says he is a bit better now just keep dosing for a couple of days to see. If it doesn't work you tried everything that was possible, I would keep the bottle at hand for future use.
 
Overdosing any product could be harmful. First and foremost you need to establish the volume of the tank. There is a tank calculator right here on the top of this page, and if you are still unsure you could have asked here there are plenty of members happy to calculate it for you. You can't blame a product for not dosing correctly. Also in filterless tanks you can't put just anything in cause they have no circulation. You do a water change and then mix it in with new water.
 
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So it is probably around 25 liters, there is substrate and ornaments but also people and manufacturers typically measure the outside, meaning they count the glass as volume, to get the proper volume you need to measure the inside (or substract the thickness of the glass)
So the correct dose 1,25 ml. Now if you have no syringe that is hard to do so here is how you do that, get an empty bottle put 5 ml in that, and fill it with water. Then shake and dose a quarter of that bottle every day.
 
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