Help!

[halfbloodprincess]

Please help I think my female betta is dieing. She is just sitting in the corner at the top of the tank gulping for air every so ofen. Her belly is big and white. I thought she was just filled with eggs. She seems like she has a brown spot on her. I dont know what to do and she is my favorite fish ever and I dont want her to die!!!!!!

She also has raised scales

 

[halfbloodprincess]

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!

 

[WILDER]

The brown spot is it fluffy, and the white on the belly is that look bleached out.
Stats would be good in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate tand ph.
I would try some shelled peas on her, and an epson salt bath to try and draw the fluids out.



To be honest she not in good shape at all she already laboured breathing and once scales stick out organ failure.
Try the epson salt bath if no epson salt normal household salt.

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

http/www.fishjunkies.com/Diseases/dropsy.php

 

[halfbloodprincess]

Well she has died. The guy at petco said it was a reproductive problem and female bettas have it alot. He also said female bettas only live for about a year.

The brown had spread and so had the white and it covered her whole body when she died.

 

[WILDER]

The brown and white was it a dusting.
Sorry bless her R.I.P.

 

[halfbloodprincess]

It kind of seemed fluffy i think.

 

[WILDER]

Columnaris on top of the dropsy then.
http/www.nippyfish.net/flexibacter.html

 

[halfbloodprincess]

For some reason it just doesnt look like that.

 

[WILDER]

Don't know then, there brown spots, velvet which can look like a rust colour varnish on a fish, and columnaris
which look brown but fluffy, but also can show in patches of brown.

 

[halfbloodprincess]

It spread over the side and on her belly, and it kind of looked like a wound. She was in a goldfish bowl and we had planed on moving her to a two gallon tank with an air stone and we were going to treat her with what petco had suggested. But for some reason, petco said they think it was either stress, old age, or a reproductive problem and that females get them all the time. He also said that female bettas dont live that long at all, he said the males live alot longer.