Help - Rapid Finrot?

[Hanako]

I switched my male from the spawning tank back to a bowl recently, and decided to cover it with a dark shirt so he could get reaquainted with his surroundings. Anyways I removed the shirt a day later to take a look at him, and about a third of the way into the caudal, most of the fin is missing!!! The rays were left, but look like they were breaking off one by one . Pretty sure its finrot due to the dark tips.

So I changed his water, added salt, and 10 drops of bettafix - its a one gallon bowl (temporary situation, I assure you).

Is that the correct dosing??

And is there varying degrees of finrot that can occur? Its weird, my other boy Max had a bout of finrot too, but it was very very slow.

Thanks for all the help!

 

[RandomWiktor]

Finrot can have a variety of causes, and occur at a variety of speeds. It is possible, for example, in the case of toxicity, or a rapid bacterial blood, that you will see a very sudden, severe care of rot. Columnaris infections are also associated with massive, rapid fin deterioration. The other possibility is, of course, fin mutilation caused by stress, but if it has blackened tip, rot is probably the culprit.

Most often, I've observed sudden rin rot if there was a dramatic decrease in water quality, or a temperature spike. I don't know if you have a thermometer on the bowl, but if so, do you have a reading for us? Any chance that he overheated overnight?
Also, could you test the parameters of the bowl? Perhaps something is off in the water conditions.

 

[bettaBetta]

The same thing happened to my beloved Poseidon for no reasons I could tell, he died afte less than two days of that horrible finrot.

 

[Hanako]

The same thing happened to my beloved Poseidon for no reasons I could tell, he died afte less than two days of that horrible finrot.

so sorry to hear that . I flipped out when I saw Deuce like that.



The temperature stays at 74, however I've been using a desklamp (fairly far away mind you) and the temp has stayed steady at 77 for about 8 hours now.

ammonia, nitrites, nitrates are all 0 (due to everyday water changes), and pH is 7. Besides the rot, he's acting normal.

 

[fishmom]

My fish has had two rounds of rapid fin rot. Drives me crazy especially when he finally had his tail grown back and then whan here comes the rot again!!! GRRRR!!

 

[Hanako]

My fish has had two rounds of rapid fin rot. Drives me crazy especially when he finally had his tail grown back and then whan here comes the rot again!!! GRRRR!!

fishmom how did you treat your betta?

 

[WILDER]

I sounds bad, will need an antibiotic like tetracycline.

 

[riogal_11]

I would definitely be concerned with the speed, as like random said it can be associated with columnaries...... at first it may seem like an easily treatable fin rot, but it can progress quickly. I found this out too late with two of my boys.... I'd go with what wilder said and get antibiotics ASAP... better to be safe than sorry.....

 

[Hanako]

I went with some jungle fungus clear, I hope it works . Please keep him in your thoughts.

 

[WILDER]

http/www.petfish.net/finrot.htm

 

[fishmom]

My fish has had two rounds of rapid fin rot. Drives me crazy especially when he finally had his tail grown back and then whan here comes the rot again!!! GRRRR!!

fishmom how did you treat your betta?

Teaspoon salt in one gallon tank and Melafix(seems to need loads of this--he does better with this larger dose). Apollo does well for a month or so and then wham he gets it again. He has been like this since June and this is his second round of it. Today it looks like his fin and tail are in the healing mode, he is lethargic and spending a bit more time sitting at the bottom though. I have had two other Bettas that never had this problem and this guy seems to have been contaminated with it since he was with us two weeks.

 

[ral]

Last year one of my veil tails, Max, suffered severe finrot with bleeding at the ends of the fins. After watching the rate of loss for the day, I did some suregry and cut out the dying fins. They grew back fine.

 

[Hanako]

Last year one of my veil tails, Max, suffered severe finrot with bleeding at the ends of the fins. After watching the rate of loss for the day, I did some suregry and cut out the dying fins. They grew back fine.

Yes the exposed rays of his fins are red . How did you go about doing the surgery?

 

[WILDER]

You just take the fish out of the tank, soak a clean cloth in the tank, wrap the fish in it, sterlise some scissors and cut the infected part away, then give a very mild salt dip to make sure is dosn't get infected, but if it has blood on the eges it will still need treating with an internal bacteria med.

 

[ral]

I used a very sharp stainless steel blade sterilized in hot water.

The fish will be jumpy so don't forget the part about the wet clean cloth.