Hi everyone!. It's been a while since I posted here. Cara is a female betta in my sorority tank. The tank is 15 gallons, planted, and home to:
-7 Female Bettas: Cara, Cache, Celeste, Carnage, Cinnabar, Sunny and Sasha.
-3 Otocinclus Affinis
-3 Panda Corydora
-3 Peppered Corydora
I feed this tank BettaMin Flakes, algae tabs, and shrimp pellets. Everyone eats a bit of everything. I've seen the otos suck up the flakes, and I've seen the girls carry around the algae tabs and shrimp pellets eating them.
Cara is a peach-based body colour, and as such, when she was in a kerfuffle with the girls and was injured a week or two ago, I didn't notice the cut on her side. I noticed the cut on her side about 9 days ago. In the last 12 days, I've moved twice due to the end of the school year. By the time I noticed, she had already started growing an awful fungus on the cut. I wasn't sure she'd make it, but I couldn't -not- treat her. I immediately sectioned her off in one of my isolation nets I've made (plastic mesh boxes similar to breeder boxes. I have them in many sizes for use in all of my tanks). I started treating the entire tank with Jungle Fungus Eliminator powder. After just two doses in the tank, Cara's fungus is completely gone, her appetite is back and now its just time to let the cut heal.
Is there something I can add to the water to encourage healing, or will just regular water changes do the job?
I've switched Cara to Hikari Betta BioGold pellets for the duration of her isolation from the rest of the tank (just because they're less messy in the box, and I can better control how much she is eating and see whether or not she is eating.
Thanks!
-7 Female Bettas: Cara, Cache, Celeste, Carnage, Cinnabar, Sunny and Sasha.
-3 Otocinclus Affinis
-3 Panda Corydora
-3 Peppered Corydora
I feed this tank BettaMin Flakes, algae tabs, and shrimp pellets. Everyone eats a bit of everything. I've seen the otos suck up the flakes, and I've seen the girls carry around the algae tabs and shrimp pellets eating them.
Cara is a peach-based body colour, and as such, when she was in a kerfuffle with the girls and was injured a week or two ago, I didn't notice the cut on her side. I noticed the cut on her side about 9 days ago. In the last 12 days, I've moved twice due to the end of the school year. By the time I noticed, she had already started growing an awful fungus on the cut. I wasn't sure she'd make it, but I couldn't -not- treat her. I immediately sectioned her off in one of my isolation nets I've made (plastic mesh boxes similar to breeder boxes. I have them in many sizes for use in all of my tanks). I started treating the entire tank with Jungle Fungus Eliminator powder. After just two doses in the tank, Cara's fungus is completely gone, her appetite is back and now its just time to let the cut heal.
Is there something I can add to the water to encourage healing, or will just regular water changes do the job?
I've switched Cara to Hikari Betta BioGold pellets for the duration of her isolation from the rest of the tank (just because they're less messy in the box, and I can better control how much she is eating and see whether or not she is eating.
Thanks!
Honestly, I think good, clean water will benefit her most at this point, now that the fungus has been cleared away.
