Miss Wiggle
Practically perfect in every way
think i have this under control, however i just wanted to check that i'm doing what i should be and there's nothing else I can do.
I have an 8g heated filtered reasonably heavily planted tank with a betta in, filters mature and has been for ages, weekly maintenance of 30-40% water changes using dechlor, bit of algae scraping, plant pruning etc.
2 weekends ago we were working on the electrics and they were turned off for the whole house for most of sat and for a few hrs on sunday and monday. His tank also had to be moved. Due to the nature of his filter (built in jobby in the hood of the tank, pumps water up the trickles down through filter floss and back into the tank) a fair bit of muck got churned up in the tank from the filter stopping and starting and the tank being shifted.
About 4/5 days ago I noticed he was looking swollen and a bit pine coney but not massivley advanced. So I immediately did a 50% water change (should have tested the water first but it was 11pm and i just ddin't think) got my fishy health book and looked up dropsy, it advised to ensure perfect water conditions and treat with an multi purpose antibacterial. So I've been dosing the tank with melafix for 4 days now and have done a couple of water changes.
Water parameters are now fine however I suspect that all the movement and power being off has triggered a mini cycle and the poor water quality led to him developing dropsy.
His swelling appeared to have gone down a little the night before last and a little bit more last night.
I will continue to treat with melafix and monitor water quality doing water changes if appropriate.
Just really wanted to check that this is all right and there's nothing else i should be doing?
I have an 8g heated filtered reasonably heavily planted tank with a betta in, filters mature and has been for ages, weekly maintenance of 30-40% water changes using dechlor, bit of algae scraping, plant pruning etc.
2 weekends ago we were working on the electrics and they were turned off for the whole house for most of sat and for a few hrs on sunday and monday. His tank also had to be moved. Due to the nature of his filter (built in jobby in the hood of the tank, pumps water up the trickles down through filter floss and back into the tank) a fair bit of muck got churned up in the tank from the filter stopping and starting and the tank being shifted.
About 4/5 days ago I noticed he was looking swollen and a bit pine coney but not massivley advanced. So I immediately did a 50% water change (should have tested the water first but it was 11pm and i just ddin't think) got my fishy health book and looked up dropsy, it advised to ensure perfect water conditions and treat with an multi purpose antibacterial. So I've been dosing the tank with melafix for 4 days now and have done a couple of water changes.
Water parameters are now fine however I suspect that all the movement and power being off has triggered a mini cycle and the poor water quality led to him developing dropsy.
His swelling appeared to have gone down a little the night before last and a little bit more last night.
I will continue to treat with melafix and monitor water quality doing water changes if appropriate.
Just really wanted to check that this is all right and there's nothing else i should be doing?
/www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/hddropsy.htm
