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Betta with fin rot?
Before anyone jumps on my case, my betta is housed in a 5gal, heated, filtered, and medium-heavily planted tank. The tank was fully cycled before I purchased her (yes, the full, several month long process of cycling a tank) and the tank has been set up a little longer than a year.
I clean ~50% of the water weekly, except the one time I let it go for two weeks. In that time she got a small case of fin rot and has been battling it ever since. That was months ago.
I feel like I've tried everything. Clean water, salt, meds. I've tried adding her to a hospital tank (so I don't damage my plants or 2 nerite snails), but she gets so stressed out. I'm back for the weekend from college, and while she had been staying neutral (not getting better or worse) she now looks worse.
I tested the water (liquid test kit), Nitrite and Nitrate at 0ppm, and Ammonia at less than 0.25ppm. The trace Ammonia is from my tap water, but the tank SHOULD be able to handle it, because it's cycled and planted.
What can I do? I feel like I've exhausted my options because nothing has helped. It's either stressed her out, or its stressed my plants/snails without helping her either! I want my Ammonia at 0ppm, but now I'm not sure how to get it there because I'm not sure why it's there anyway
2 Answers
- 6 years ago
My betta recently had fin rot and I did the following steps then he got way better: maybe instead of doing a %50 percent water change every week you should do a full water change every 2 days. Make sure under the gravel there isn't un eaten food or poop. Or to make it better, until she gets better, don't even have gravel. I did this because the cause of fin rot is mainly a dirty tank. I am not a betta expert but this helped my betta a lot. Hope this helped!
- HaleyLv 55 years ago
If all your water parameters are good, it's probably a bacterial problem. Try an anti bacterial medication like: http://www.entirelypets.com/herbtanafresh16oz.html...
The ammonia could be from dead snails, dead plant matter, or waste within the gravel. Although it will take away lots of beneficial bacteria, you could completely change and clean the filter if all else fails. It's possible the source is from there.
