Please, Please Help. I Think My Betta Is Sick.

[Rummynose]

And check your ammonia levels every day, it looks to me as you are now in the process of doing a fish-in-cycle. That means that the waste that your Betta produces will show as ammonia in the water. Until you have established bacteria in the filter that converts the ammonia into nitrItes, and the nitrItes into nitrAtes you will have to keep the ammonia levels as close to 0 as you can by doing daily water changes.

High levels of ammonia are toxic to fish, it burns their gills and can damage their organs. It lowers the fish's immune-system and your fish get sick!

 

[hellopear]

I cleaned his tank. I have another question, about his fungus. It looks like an open sore that doesn't have scales on it, it looks light red around it and a dark red on it. It has a little cottony white thing hanging off of it. I'm giving him a medicine for fungus and one for open sores. I think he still has a swim bladder disorder, so I'm going to fast him for three days and then try the pea on the fourth day. Am I doing the right thing?

EDIT: Also, did his ammonia level before damage him too much, and am I too late? I feel like an idiot now, and I just really really hope he'll be okay now.

 

[Liquid skills]

Just keep him in a heated tank with the low ammonia and he should recover don be too hard on yor self we all have made misrakes but do jut keep an eye out on the water

Also adding some water from another tank will help when i set up my tank i used water from another tank to fill it up it cuts time (some people will disagree but that there opinion)
But with your case i would do the whole fish in cycle again not to risk any more damage

Hope he starts feeling better
And remember if ammonia and nitrogen levels need to be at 0ppm
Nitrates are ok to be low as well the lower nitrates the lower the ammonia and nitrogen levels but dont take that for granted

Good luck mate hope it all works out for you dont worry about the fungus as well just wack the temp up to 83'f and that should start to clear

It should start to clear anyway but just keep an eye on it

 

[Fishy friend2]

EDIT: Also, did his ammonia level before damage him too much, and am I too late? I feel like an idiot now, and I just really really hope he'll be okay now.

It could have already had a permanent impact on him, but probably not

 

[bettaboy150]

when I just went to feed him dinner, I saw he hadn't eaten his breakfast.....I'm not overfeeding him.

If you're feeding him twice a day, then it's certainly a possibility that you are overfeeding him. His stomach is only the size of his eye, and he has no mechanism to tell him he's full. Does he look a bit bloated? If so, don't feed him for the next 3 days, then feed him a small pea (boiled, and de-shelled, then mashed under the back of a fork).

As LS said, a photo would help an awful lot.

wow their stomach is only a size of an eye?? wowww, well bettas are suppose to always be hungry even after you fed it, so i think theres definetly a problem