Eaten Tail...

[LittleL]

ok so i brought a new betta from the LFS... although i didnt plan on buying anything when i went in for just food!

before i brought him, i was chatting to the lady in the fish shop and i explained to the lady that i wanted another betta oneday as there so smart and cool but i needed to get him his own tank, but The lady in the LFS said he would be fine in a community tank with my other fish and that she has kept bettas with other fish all her life...with no problems

thinking id be fine and going from her advice, i brought the betta and added him to my community tank.

when i got home from work today, i looked in the tank and the betta was at the suface of the tank and his lovely, long tail had been munched to shreads.. poor baby.

i have just serparated him and put him in a cooking bowl (only thing i had large enough to hold him!) and he is not looking happy.

What can i do? is there any treatment i can buy to help him recover? will his tail grow back or will it stay chewed up like that forever? is this serious or will he recover to fit form?

im going to get him a tank of his own at the weekend if i have enough cash or i might just have to take him back to LFS....

poor mite, please help..

 

[WILDER]

Answered in the betta section, bless him just melafix, if don't have that some salt just to stop the fins getting infected.

 

[LittleL]

does it have to be special salt or just household salt? silly question but im new to this

 

[WILDER]

Household salt is fine, usually one tablespoon to 5gal, and it will help if he's stressed out with the ordeal bless him.

He's in a cooking bowl how many litres is it.

 

[LittleL]

ok ill add the salt and get melifex or whatever its called tomoro. many thanks...

i bet it was them bloody tetras!

not sure how big bowl is im afraid

 

[WILDER]

Just a teaspoon of salt then, good luck, get a jug or mug and take some of the water from his bowl and just stir the salt in till it disolves.

 

[LittleL]

unfortunitly i woke this morning to find him dead

i added the salt and he looked out before i went to bed, but he must have been worst off that i thought.. poor thing.

I will never take advice from the LFS again... she said he would be absoulutly fine with my tetras and other fish...

poor betta..

 

[jarmado]

unfortunitly i woke this morning to find him dead

i added the salt and he looked out before i went to bed, but he must have been worst off that i thought.. poor thing.

I will never take advice from the LFS again... she said he would be absoulutly fine with my tetras and other fish...

poor betta..

i am so sorry..

 

[WILDER]

I'm so sorry to bless him, R.I.P.