Emergency

[Betta splendens]

Ok, I have a female guppy, and since yesterday she has aquired a rather inflammed, red, in someplaces bulgy, abdomin. This is mainly in her gravid spot area, with a blotch on her breast.

Relavancies:
A couple days ago she gave birth, but only to 5 fry.

She doesn't have the best water quality (the filter broke, a specific size and shape, no replacements made by the company and a poor makeshift filter had to be used as I desperately find another tank)

Her whole breast and abdomin area has scales resembling ruffled feathers (they're up and spiky instead of smooth) as does her still smaller daughter.

I gave her a bunch of tubeworms to help induce labor when she gave birth

She never skinnied out when she gave birth.





Oh I don't know about the 'ruffled' scales, but could a problem in giving birth have occured and the dead fry still in her started to rot and got infected (it would explain why it's all read and weird in her gravid spot and why she's still fat)?


I put her and her also ruffle breasted daughter in a little tank, full of oxygen and a little bit of salt. I put in a disease tablet, made for and thinking the problem is "Hemorrhagic Scepticemia." I'm thinking this is an infection of some kind (isn't that also what Scepticemia is?), hence the salt in her holding tank.

I'm greatly worried, she was one of my two first female guppies, and she's been the only one giving birth in my tank. And I still don't know what the ruffled scale thing is.


Please help!
Betta splendens


ps: yes, I AM trying desperately to get a new tank.

 

[WILDER]

Dropsy and septicemia go hand in hand, sorry she not going to make it, issolate her as septicemia can leak into the tank from the fish.

 

[Betta splendens]

Oh...

What about the ruffled scales? Is that a first symptom?? And what caused it?

 

[WILDER]

Look under dropsy and septicemia.
Giving birth all the time takes its toll on the fish it shortens there life span.
http/www.fish-disease.net/diseases.htm

 

[Betta splendens]

She died today.......

But her daughter, although in a much much more milder case, still has a slight pinecone appearance.

Can anyone tell me how much 20mg/L is

The tank she's in is about two L, but I really have no clue how to measure milligrams as a dry measure, can anyone tell me about how many tsp or tbsp it is?


Thank you.

 

[WILDER]

Do you have a piplette in the med back as just add a piplette of meds.
Epson salt bath if you have some, if not add half a teaspoon of salt to her tank.

 

[Betta splendens]

Ok, I have her in a 2 litre tank, so how many TSP of Epsom salts would I put in that?

I have corys and tetras, so I don't really want to put salt in the main tank.

 

[WILDER]

http/www.fishjunkies.com/Treatments/salt.php