kimmisc
09-26-2007, 7:12 PM
... how should I treat tailrot/finrot on a betta? I have been using Melafix in his tank for 3 weeks now. :O After reading the thread about it today, I'm stopping.
I took him out of the tank last week and put some peroxide directly on his fins/tail with a cotten ball.
I can't tell if the peroxide helped because his coloring is dark anyway. The only way I can tell he has anything is because the borders of his fins look ragged instead of perky and well defined like usual. (He's a crowntail.)
The guppy got the same Melafix/peroxide treatment, and his tail is looking better. It isn't to the point I'd stop treatment yet, though.
All prameters are good, he's living with ghost shrimp and a snail, been in his cycled tank for a few months, gets weekly 40-50% PWC. I think he was exposed to the rot because a guppy in my main tank has it and I used the same siphon for water changes. Only thing I can think of.
I took him out of the tank last week and put some peroxide directly on his fins/tail with a cotten ball.
I can't tell if the peroxide helped because his coloring is dark anyway. The only way I can tell he has anything is because the borders of his fins look ragged instead of perky and well defined like usual. (He's a crowntail.)
The guppy got the same Melafix/peroxide treatment, and his tail is looking better. It isn't to the point I'd stop treatment yet, though.
All prameters are good, he's living with ghost shrimp and a snail, been in his cycled tank for a few months, gets weekly 40-50% PWC. I think he was exposed to the rot because a guppy in my main tank has it and I used the same siphon for water changes. Only thing I can think of.