athao04
Fish Crazy
Hi Everyone! Well two things.
1. Recently I had bought a super white plakat male and hes been doing amazing!! I love his color and personality; however, this morning my girlfriend and I looked at him while changing water and he was having problems staying straight. When he goes towards the bottom of the tank or in the middle, his back begins to float up, causing him to try extremely hard to stay down, flapping his fins hard. I think it is swim bladder, but I thought I would get a second opinion from you guys. I tried to see if there was any medicinal treatment for this and one guy told me he has not been able to get any medicine for swim bladder for about 3-4 years and another lady told me there is no such thing as a treatment for it. IS this true or false? How do I cure it for my betta?
2. I bought two females to add to my collection of females I had recently bought to add to my sorority. I have an overall of 4 bettas to start off with and plan to end up with 8 females. However, I know that some females do not have ovipositers and thats oaky, but one of the two i picked from the tank today had no ovipositer. As I arrived home I found the female with an ovipositer badly beaten up, tail bitten apart and red sores all over her body. Now just to clarify, I already have two bettas floating in bags in my 20g tank. I have yet to release them, and its only been 1 day with constant water acclimation and changing, so I can release them all at once. I am just worried that this one "female" is either a female that has turned into a male, or a male mistaken to be a female. I added the meaner one with my other two, but put my beaten female instantly into a separate 1g with melafix for herwounds - diluted 1/10 for the appropriate dilutions to match bettafix. If this female continues to be this aggressive should I take her out or will the pecking order of the females eventually calm her down??
Thanks for all help and replies.
1. Recently I had bought a super white plakat male and hes been doing amazing!! I love his color and personality; however, this morning my girlfriend and I looked at him while changing water and he was having problems staying straight. When he goes towards the bottom of the tank or in the middle, his back begins to float up, causing him to try extremely hard to stay down, flapping his fins hard. I think it is swim bladder, but I thought I would get a second opinion from you guys. I tried to see if there was any medicinal treatment for this and one guy told me he has not been able to get any medicine for swim bladder for about 3-4 years and another lady told me there is no such thing as a treatment for it. IS this true or false? How do I cure it for my betta?
2. I bought two females to add to my collection of females I had recently bought to add to my sorority. I have an overall of 4 bettas to start off with and plan to end up with 8 females. However, I know that some females do not have ovipositers and thats oaky, but one of the two i picked from the tank today had no ovipositer. As I arrived home I found the female with an ovipositer badly beaten up, tail bitten apart and red sores all over her body. Now just to clarify, I already have two bettas floating in bags in my 20g tank. I have yet to release them, and its only been 1 day with constant water acclimation and changing, so I can release them all at once. I am just worried that this one "female" is either a female that has turned into a male, or a male mistaken to be a female. I added the meaner one with my other two, but put my beaten female instantly into a separate 1g with melafix for herwounds - diluted 1/10 for the appropriate dilutions to match bettafix. If this female continues to be this aggressive should I take her out or will the pecking order of the females eventually calm her down??
Thanks for all help and replies.
