Hi.

Im new to this forum. Hi and nice to meet you. Introductions later :P

I got this betta from Yeevia a few weeks ago. This was him when I first got him:


Beautiful blue with a nice dark head.

Now about 2 days ago, I noticed he was very legarthric. He was breathing abit heavy, so I gave his water a good change.

Yesterday, he lost some color, hanging abit tipsy at the very top with his mouth just out of the water, almost gasping.

This is a pic I took yesterday:


His belly was greyish, and had a reddish spot, which I thought might've been an ulcer, but I couldnt find more information on it. I started to treat him with Macayn 2 (however you spell it) and salt. He refused to eat, or even look at food, even a pea, so I stopped trying to feed him. Someone thought it might be concipation, it wasnt that. Someone else thought he must be poisoned by the worms, I doubted it since I hadnt fed any worms to him in a week.

Now I came home from work, seeing he's been doing much worse.

He'd drift to the bottom, land on his back and stay like that for a few seconds, then he'll rush to the top to gasp for air, then drift back to the bottom and lay however he falls. He lost more color, and his eyes are very cloudy, almost swollen. Im not sure if it's Popeye, it does not quite look like the description.

Here are the updated pics, Sorry they arent clear, but you can get the general idea..




I would love to move him to a smaller bowl so he would not have to swim so much to get to the top, but this tank is heated (2.5 gal), and its medicated according to the charts. I cant do math too well to medicate a smaller bowl which is not even a .5 gal accordinly and its not heated.

Help please?

Grey patches on fish can be bacteria infections like columnaris or parasite, with the red spot where is it on the fish i would try a round of maracyn 2, and some daily salt baths, good luck.

http://www.flippersandfins.net/flexibacter.htm

Thanks Wilder.. but unfortunatly you are too late. He died the other day :(

Sorry to hear that, R.I.P.

R.I.P
sorry :bye:

Hi, I'm so sorry you lost your betta. Mine had the exact symptoms as yours. First spitting out his food, acting lethargic, then refusing food altogether, resting on the bottom, belly turned grey and was swollen, mine also had the added symptom of white poo.

Here's a pic of him yesterday, almost four weeks into his illness.


I treated with MelaFix, salt, tetracycline, then metronidazole for bacteria infections (not at the same time and with clean water breaks in between) nothing worked. Then a guy at my LFS sold me PraziPro (praziquantel) which is an anti-parasite med. AFter finishing that med I gave him some "time off" with just clean water and the tiniest pinch of MelaFix. After more than three weeks of different treatments and trying about seven different kinds of foods (peas, pellets, frozen and live) he finally started eating yesterday. Maybe our bettas had the same thing. I know he had parasites but I don't know that they were his only problem and I'm not even sure what it was that finally did it for him. Still, I'm really sorry about your guy. :(