Mammabe
New Member
Hi There,
Does anyone know what it means if there is a cloudy film on the bottom of the bowl and on the ornaments? it looks like my betta is shedding - his scales are coming off or are red, he looks like he has been stripped of his scales almost and his skin is raw. He first started scratching on rocks so I thought he might have a parasite, I put a tsp. of aquarium salt in his 1 gallon bowl, disolved first of course, and left him for a week. He didn't seem to improve and kept scratching, so I changed his water and started him on .05 ml of melafix for 7 days, still nothing and seemingly getting worse with what looks like black stuff caked on his head. I changed the water again then I tried pimafix for a week thinking maybe it is a fungul infection, same dosage - still no improvement. This poor guy is going to die of toxin poisoning soon with all the things I am trying.
Anyone have any idea what is going on? I change the water every 5 days on a regular basis, this is before he started showing signs of something gone bad and still do and the only thing I added was a betta bed that was different when the scratching started... I will try to get a pic if necessary. Let me know what you think.
Thank you!
Perhaps I should post this in the emergency section. Still waiting for a reply ):
Does anyone know what it means if there is a cloudy film on the bottom of the bowl and on the ornaments? it looks like my betta is shedding - his scales are coming off or are red, he looks like he has been stripped of his scales almost and his skin is raw. He first started scratching on rocks so I thought he might have a parasite, I put a tsp. of aquarium salt in his 1 gallon bowl, disolved first of course, and left him for a week. He didn't seem to improve and kept scratching, so I changed his water and started him on .05 ml of melafix for 7 days, still nothing and seemingly getting worse with what looks like black stuff caked on his head. I changed the water again then I tried pimafix for a week thinking maybe it is a fungul infection, same dosage - still no improvement. This poor guy is going to die of toxin poisoning soon with all the things I am trying.
Anyone have any idea what is going on? I change the water every 5 days on a regular basis, this is before he started showing signs of something gone bad and still do and the only thing I added was a betta bed that was different when the scratching started... I will try to get a pic if necessary. Let me know what you think.
Thank you!
Perhaps I should post this in the emergency section. Still waiting for a reply ):