Pink Gill Plates

[fuman_chica]

I posted this in the betta section but no one is in there. So, hopefully with it in here someone will come in and see it and help me...

My blue/black/green/red crowntail betta has a light human flesh color on his gill plates. He has been acting sluggish for the last few days, but the coloration just appeared today. It is on both gill plates. And he is still acting sluggish.

He just had a water change day before yesterday. I will do another one today. He is in a one gallon tank.

Is there any medication I should give him? I have no clue what he has so I don't know what to give him. I have the Jungle brand stuff for parasites and Melafix for bacteria. And obviously if there is a different medicine I need to get to make him better, I will have no problem going out and looking for it. But I would prefer the name of the medication not the ingredent because it's hard to look at all the bottles for ingredents when I'm holding my toddler at the same time.

PLEASE!!! PLEASE help me!! I don't want to loose him. I was told he's less than a year old, so he has more life to live. PLEASE!!

 

[WILDER]

Water stats would be good to make sure everything is ok there in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate,and ph, it could be parasites to a bacterial infection, is the fish flicking and rubbing on things, any laboured breathing, has the fish bloated up or darkened in colour.

 

[fuman_chica]

I keep the betta in a one gallon tank. I do 100% water changes every 2-5 days. So, the tank is not cycled. I do water changes often enough on my betta tanks that I don't check their stats. They are never in the same water long enough for it to get too high.

He is not flicking around or rubbing on anything. He is barely moving. Everytime I have gone in today to check on him he is laying still on the bottom of his tank, laying slightly to the side. He did eat when I fed him this this morning though. I'm just feeding him pellets. I have never fed him anything else.

His breathing appears to be normal.

He isn't bloated at all. He actually looks a little skinnyer than usual.

His coloring is already really dark, so I don't know that I would be able to tell if he darkend up at all.

 

[WILDER]

If he's laying to oneside at the bottom of the tank not good, it's usually a sign of a bacterial infection, i would add a antibiotic fast, he might not make it though , good luck.

 

[fuman_chica]

I added the recommended dosage of Melafix before I ever posted on here about it. Is that kind of antibacterial stuff what I need to give him? Or is there another kind that would be better?

 

[WILDER]

Try and pull the gill plate back to take a look just to make sure there no parasites there, no melafix is not good is an outside treatment for cuts and wounds, you need something like tetracycline, or maracyn one and two.