Bloated Stomach

[discus dreamer]

Hi I hope someone can help
My beautiful betta, Aladin, has suddenly developed a very bloated looking stomach, just his stomach and no sign of scales standing out. I gave him some boiled peas last night in the hope that it was just constipation. He didn't eat much and is still bloated. My stats are ok although I have recently added melafix because one of the corys has what looks like fungus. I added the melafix for 2 days but have stopped now in case it is this causing a problem for Aladin.
He is breathing and swimming normally and I think he would eat if i added food but thought it best not to. The corys finished up the peas last night.
any suggestions please?
DD

 

[Ravenwing]

Sounds like he's constipated. Skip feeding him for a day and it should go down. I may be wrong in this approach, but I would suggest removing the sick fish and placing him into a hosptial tank so you can treat him seperatly with out treating _everyone_ in the tank....


Hope this helps

 

[discus dreamer]

Thanks for the suggestion.
But I have now left him without food on two seperate days, fed him peas on two seperate days, doing a 20% water change every other day, given him a salt bath two days ago and he just gets worse.
Very fat but only his stomach area but scales not standing out
colours are dull and in the last day has taken to sitting on the bottom a lot. Stats are still fine.
any hope for him?
DD

 

[andyw823]

Thanks for the suggestion.
But I have now left him without food on two seperate days, fed him peas on two seperate days, doing a 20% water change every other day, given him a salt bath two days ago and he just gets worse.
Very fat but only his stomach area but scales not standing out
colours are dull and in the last day has taken to sitting on the bottom a lot. Stats are still fine.
any hope for him?
DD

Could be an internal bacteria prob, one of my males died with a fat belly which just happened over night.

Is it as bad as this?

 

[ileopard]

Fast him for 2 days, doing an epsom salt bath for 15 minutes each day. After 2 days, feed him a deshelled pea, crumbled up into pellet-size pieces. After that, if it's not resolved, feed him Jungle Anti-Bacterial Medicated Food.

 

[discus dreamer]

Hi
Aladin is not as bad as AndyW's betta his body isn't distorted except for the stomach. Thanks ileopard for the epsom salt bath tip, i will give that a go (guess I can find the dosage on the web) and track down the med you suggest. He has been just sitting on the bottom but did swim up a bit today and sat on a leaf for a while, but he does look poorly.
DD

 

[xoedusk]

Sorry if I missed it, but what do you normally feed your betta, and how often?

 

[discus dreamer]

Hi Xeodusk
I usually feed him tetramin flakes in the morning and tetraprima granuals in the evening with live food (brine shrimp or daphnia) once a week and a few frozen blood worms once a week. He is in a tank with 5 cories and a blue ram.
thanks
DD

 

[discus dreamer]

Hi all
thanks for your help, the epsom salt bath seemed to revive him a bit but then yesterday he died.
He was my husband's favorite fish so not looking forward to breaking the news when he gets back from a trip to Australia.
Did a 50% water change after I found him to help out the other fish and they all seem ok.
DD