Strange Betta Wound, Need HELP FAST!

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My female betta has a strange wound like thing where a piece of bloodworm seems to be sticking out of her gill, I accidentally overfed her and her tankmates and now this!

(she lives with four other betta girls) I thought half a cube of bloodworms for the whole tank woudnt overfeed but I was wrong.

I just want to know what to do because she is very uncomfortable and acting very sick.

I just did a small WC also.

I have heard people have the same thing happen but I need to know what I can do TONIGHT, I have to go to bed soon, so Please Hurry!!
 
The same thing happened to me a while back...my betta girl had eaten a pellet and it was coming out of her gill. I tried to give her surgery to the best of my ability, but taking her out of the water weakened her and stressed her out even more. I would advise you to just leave her be and to try to make her as unstressed as possible. If you are going to isolate her, please do it as carefully as possible. Perhaps you can scoop her up in a cup and drift her back out of the cup in an isolation tank. Be very very careful because what I had not realized when this had happened to my betta was that she had already gotten it 85% out of her gill, and that she was weak from doing so. In scooping her out of her water, I pushed it back in a bit, by accident. She didn't make it :(. Try to fast her as much as possible and - here's another idea - you can remove the other betta girls to a different tank. If you have a filter that creates current, turn it off, as this will only weaken her and stress her out more. I tried surgery as best I could but it did not work at all. I think she would have been better off if I did not do anything.
P.S. I feed frozen bloodworms by taking a tiny chunk, sloshing it around in some tank water that I have taken from my fish tanks, and then sucking the worms up with a siphon and feeding...it's easier to control your feeding if you do it like this rather than shaking the entire cube around in the water
Good luck with your betta girl and I am really sorry to hear that this has happened. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers
 
i wouldn't suggest shutting down the filter entirely, as that will kill off all your beneficial bacteria overnight. just turn it down as low as it can go.

if it's just a single bloodworm then she may just push it out of her gill on her own.

keep us updated!


ps - this could have happened if you fed 1 bloodworm to the whole tank and the betta decided to eat it and it just 'went down funny'. as long as the fish are eating all the food you put in there within a few minutes you are not overfeeding. heck, i toss fully frozen cubes of food into my oscar's tank and he gulps them two at a time!
 
Well Thanks Everyone!
Overnight she pushed it out and now she is acting normal and happy.
I think I just need to make sure I do NOT overfeed next time, and now I am DEFINITELY going to take your advise to melt the bloodworms first in tankwater.

Thanks Betta People!
 
Awesome!!!
 
Thanks me too! She is actually one of my first betta breeding babies. I still have her parents and she is gorgeous!
 
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