Help My Betta ! Urgent Plz!

[LauraFrog]

Okay, swelling of the belly is dropsy. It's caused by internal bacteria. You need to get him onto antibiotics. It doesn't much matter what you use but the ones you can often get for fish are tetracycline, oxytetracycline (oxytet), chloramphenicol, kanamycin/streptomycin/erythromycin and other ones like this Anything ending in mycin, or says it's antibiotic. Antibacterial is not strong enough, things like melafix, bettafix, pimafix, are not strong enough to cure dropsy. Sometimes antibiotics are sold as anti internal bacteria, Maracyn 1 and 2. These will all help. Also keeping the water clean and warm should help.

I should warn you, sometimes dropsy doesn't recover. It's probably not your fault, this just happens sometimes and it's very hard to work out the cause. I hope he pulls through!

 

[Revulo]

Okay, swelling of the belly is dropsy. It's caused by internal bacteria. You need to get him onto antibiotics. It doesn't much matter what you use but the ones you can often get for fish are tetracycline, oxytetracycline (oxytet), chloramphenicol, kanamycin/streptomycin/erythromycin and other ones like this Anything ending in mycin, or says it's antibiotic. Antibacterial is not strong enough, things like melafix, bettafix, pimafix, are not strong enough to cure dropsy. Sometimes antibiotics are sold as anti internal bacteria, Maracyn 1 and 2. These will all help. Also keeping the water clean and warm should help.

I should warn you, sometimes dropsy doesn't recover. It's probably not your fault, this just happens sometimes and it's very hard to work out the cause. I hope he pulls through!

can't it be just overfeeding?
it's not horribly swelling,it's meld, and his scales aren's sticked out
thanx 4 telling me, i'll get him antibiotic 2moro, i'm not sure if i'll find the names u mentioned here in Egypt, i just find locally made drugs, but i'll try

 

[azulfire24]

full on dropsy is all over puffyness with scales sticking out like a pine cone, a fat belly is probaly constipation due to too much proteen rich food, try a day or two of fastingtry skipping the ants and only feeding 3 to 4 ..smallbits.. of pelette.. hope he perks up!

 

[Revulo]

wow , i think he's healing ! he no longer stays in the corner and tends to swim with less clamping , although he swims wiselly and slowly but he seems more active , i hope it's a good sign

 

[ThePiggy]

That's good news! Keep up the good work! He's lucky to have a devoted friend like you.