Unsure About Treatment

[This Old Spouse]

So I have a 20g that I have some black skirted longfin tetra in recuperating from fin rot (thanks to an LFS) and I've been treating the water with Mela-fix which is melaleuca. Do you think this will kill off the filter bacteria as well? I would like to keep these fish and I'm curious about the best approach. Do 90% water changes? Add salt?

 

[snowflake311]

I hate Mela-fix fin rot can be fixed with just extra clean water. Do daily water changes for a week of 25-50%. You could add some salt. After a week you could keep doing daily Wc. Or just every other day. That should fix it with time. It will not heal in a day or even a week . You should see some healing in 3 days. But full recovery could take months or even a year. Sometimes the fin will never be the same if it is really bad.

I have had a few bettas with fin rot and clean water fixed it ever time.