Tank size: At first, it was a 10 gallon with 2 other girls, and now it's a 10 gallon hospital tank that she's in right now (isolated from all other fish)
pH: ~7.4ppm
ammonia: 0ppm
nitrite: 0ppm
nitrate: 40ppm
kH: don't have a test kit for this
gH: don't have a test kit for this
tank temp: 76-82*F (My Tetra heater automatically selects a temperature, it's not adjustable by me), and in the hospital tank, I'm trying to set it to 86*F slowly, it's currently about 75*F
Volume and Frequency of water changes: 100% once every week for all tanks.
Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: Community Tank - A filter, a heater, an ornamental turtle which was sold at a pet store (fake, of course), a silk plant, gravel, and some other decoration I got from a pet store, Hospital Tank - heater
Tank inhabitants:
Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): When she was in the community tank, none. In the hospital tank, none.
Exposure to chemicals:
Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior):
I have a female betta that I got about a month ago from a breeder (a halfmoon). After a few days of having her in my aquarium, she got black spots. I checked into this disease online. A formalin bath at 75ppm was a recommended treatment.
Since then, I have tried several treatments, all of which she has not responded to.
1) BettaFix Treatment: First, I tried BettaFix for 7 days, as it has been effective for all of my fish problems. I figured that it should be good for this disease too.
2) CopperSafe Treatment: After the BettaFix treatment didn't work, I called a local pet store and asked them what other treatment I could try. They recommended CopperSafe for parasites (which is what I believed it was at the time, since the disease page I read told me it was). I tried that, and waited 7 days to see if it was effective.
3) Formalin Treatment: Now we are up to 14-15 days. It took me about 5 days to finally find a place that carried it. At the same time, a forum member told me to try Trifon, so I bought both of these. On the 23rd, both meds were delivered. I tried a formalin bath at 75ppm, and waited to see if this was effective.
Today, while I was looking at her to see if anything had worked, I noticed a large curved spine. I posted this in my original thread (thanks to everyone who posted there), and someone told me black spots and spinal deformities are all symptoms of fish tuberculosis.
Apparently, black spots are supposed to be cured by both copper and formalin treatments. I've tried both and it's not cured. I'm almost sure it is fish tuberculosis.
BettaTalk states fish TB is not curable, but I came across a message board post with someone with an angelfish who cured fish TB by injecting erythromycin. I have 200mg of erythromycin (Maracyn powder packets).
I am thinking that I might be able to inject this myself, but I am afraid to do so without directions telling me where to inject it, and how much erythromycin to inject. I don't think there's a vet who would accept a betta, of course, and I wouldn't take a betta to a vet.
Actually, is it illegal to inject things into a fish without being a vet? I'm not sure if fish are regulated or not.
pH: ~7.4ppm
ammonia: 0ppm
nitrite: 0ppm
nitrate: 40ppm
kH: don't have a test kit for this
gH: don't have a test kit for this
tank temp: 76-82*F (My Tetra heater automatically selects a temperature, it's not adjustable by me), and in the hospital tank, I'm trying to set it to 86*F slowly, it's currently about 75*F
Volume and Frequency of water changes: 100% once every week for all tanks.
Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: Community Tank - A filter, a heater, an ornamental turtle which was sold at a pet store (fake, of course), a silk plant, gravel, and some other decoration I got from a pet store, Hospital Tank - heater
Tank inhabitants:
Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): When she was in the community tank, none. In the hospital tank, none.
Exposure to chemicals:
Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior):
I have a female betta that I got about a month ago from a breeder (a halfmoon). After a few days of having her in my aquarium, she got black spots. I checked into this disease online. A formalin bath at 75ppm was a recommended treatment.
Since then, I have tried several treatments, all of which she has not responded to.
1) BettaFix Treatment: First, I tried BettaFix for 7 days, as it has been effective for all of my fish problems. I figured that it should be good for this disease too.
2) CopperSafe Treatment: After the BettaFix treatment didn't work, I called a local pet store and asked them what other treatment I could try. They recommended CopperSafe for parasites (which is what I believed it was at the time, since the disease page I read told me it was). I tried that, and waited 7 days to see if it was effective.
3) Formalin Treatment: Now we are up to 14-15 days. It took me about 5 days to finally find a place that carried it. At the same time, a forum member told me to try Trifon, so I bought both of these. On the 23rd, both meds were delivered. I tried a formalin bath at 75ppm, and waited to see if this was effective.
Today, while I was looking at her to see if anything had worked, I noticed a large curved spine. I posted this in my original thread (thanks to everyone who posted there), and someone told me black spots and spinal deformities are all symptoms of fish tuberculosis.
Apparently, black spots are supposed to be cured by both copper and formalin treatments. I've tried both and it's not cured. I'm almost sure it is fish tuberculosis.
BettaTalk states fish TB is not curable, but I came across a message board post with someone with an angelfish who cured fish TB by injecting erythromycin. I have 200mg of erythromycin (Maracyn powder packets).
I am thinking that I might be able to inject this myself, but I am afraid to do so without directions telling me where to inject it, and how much erythromycin to inject. I don't think there's a vet who would accept a betta, of course, and I wouldn't take a betta to a vet.
Actually, is it illegal to inject things into a fish without being a vet? I'm not sure if fish are regulated or not.
/www.4qd.org/Aqua/disease/tb.html
