nelliebo
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I rescued two male bettas from Walmart tonight. I talked to the manager, pointing out that several had the starts of fin rot/melt, but apparently, they don't do water changes. She'll set them aside and they might give them some medicine. <grrrrrr> I only had two free hospital tanks, so I took the two that looked the worst. One guy just has some curling/melting of his fins but seems like he's going to do just fine (gobbled up the bloodworm I gave him tonight and is swimming happily), but the other looks almost emaciated as his stomach is caved in, and he seems to have trouble holding his body straight (like he's too weak to hold himself straight in the water). I added AquaSafe+, Melafix, and "Fungus clear" to their water. I know for the less sick one, daily water changes (uncycled, but filtered tanks), gradually build up feeds, but for the sicker guy, I'm not sure if there's anything else I should be doing for him.