Help With Betta?

[xweeqtx]

Two of my bettas spawned, no-one was harmed, no aggression, no nipping.
Everything went fine, and the female was removed and placed into my community tank for a holiday and to get fed away from the other girls. I've just noticed her covered in some sort of.. well, can only describe it as an eczema sort of look about it. Like flakey around her head/gills and then spots on her fins with a yellowish tinge. At the moment, I'm thinking velvet. Could that have arisen from the stress of spawning? Or just the change in water from the spawning tank to the community tank? She is lethargic, fins are clamped.

Main tank stats are ammonia 0 nitrite 0 PH 6.8 temperature is at 27-28oC

As for treatment, I have Myxazin on hand if it's any good. If I'm to treat it, could someone let me know whether to remove and isolate her or treat the whole tank please. And with the possibility of her having it, I also have her siblings and they were only brought here on Saturday so should they be treated also?

Edit - Rather than buying yet another very expensive bottle of Waterlife product, is it safe to add Copper Sulphate? Have been having a look, and appears to be basically same routine of whitespot of raising temp, dim lights, add salt, then add Copper Sulphate for ten days, and discontinue carbon filtration.

Now, I can see Copper Sulphate on a certain auction site.. but how do I know how much to dose? If I was keeping her in tank for treatment(which would be easier and probably safer, and to ease my paranoia) the tank is 180 litres..

 

[WILDER]

Did you match ph and temp when you moved her.

How big are the spots.
Any signs of flicking and rubbing, excess mucas, laboured breathing, gasping, darting, erratic swimming.
Turn tank lights out and shine a torch on the fish to see if you can see golden yellow spots, or gold dusting on the fish, or rusty coloured varnish on the fish.

 

[xweeqtx]

Did you match ph and temp when you moved her.

How big are the spots.
Any signs of flicking and rubbing, excess mucas, laboured breathing, gasping, darting, erratic swimming.
Turn tank lights out and shine a torch on the fish to see if you can see golden yellow spots, or gold dusting on the fish, or rusty coloured varnish on the fish.

PH in all my tanks are 6.8-7.0 and the temperatures are the same as well.
The spots are slightly bigger than whitespot ones. The ones on her head/gills are flakey rather than spots. And it's gold dusting. She is rubbing, haven't seen her flicking. And breathing is laboured.

 

[WILDER]

Sounds like velvet then.
Read here to see what you think.
http/www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/heal...thprotist.shtml


Oodinium (a.k.a. Velvet)



Symptoms:

Oodinium is commonly called "Velvet" because infected fish have a yellowish-brown "velvety" coating that covers its body. When the gills are affected rapid gill movements will be seen. Infected fish often scrape against objects in the aquarium in an effort to remove the parasite. In severe infestations, the skin may peel away in strips. Lack of appetite and lethargy usually accompany these other symptoms.



Cause:

The dinoflagellate Oodinium pillularis. This parasite feeds on the flesh of the fish, destroying the cells of its skin and can even infect its internal organs. This parasite is highly contagious due to the fact that it can survive up to 24 hours without a host. When without a host, they drop to the bottom of the aquarium, where they multiply and wait to find a new host.



Treatment:

Because Oodinium is extremely contagious, all fish, and the aquarium they inhabit, should be treated. Recommended medications include Paraform, Acriflavin, Quick Cure, and Formalin.

 

[xweeqtx]

I bought Protozin today, as I did think it was velvet.. just wanted to confirm. Thanks Wilder

 

[WILDER]

Good Luck.