Update On The Rescued Betta. Fungal Infection! D: :'(

[solsed]

Hey guys,

A little while ago I posted about a betta I was attempting to rehabilitate;

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/418286-betta-mistreated-ive-taken-it-in-attempting-rehab-help/
 
He has a fungal infection. :'(

He has a spot of white cotton-wooly stuff near the front of his dorsal and on one of his gills! D:

I only saw it this morning.

I've started a course of treatment, and I put an aerator in there because apparently this brand sucks the oxygen from the water..

I'm not sure what brought it on, but I had bought some plants for him originally, and there wasn't enough light and they started to melt.
So I pulled the ones furthest from the window out because they seemed to be faring the worst, then the next day removed the rest. So maybe it was them rotting that brought it on?

I've been doing really regular water changes since putting him in here, and I bought him some IAL, he's had two of them for about a week.

I thought he was doing so well,

But now this, and he's been hanging out alot at the bottom near a rock. :'(
Like he gets up and darts about but ends back there.
He has been doing this since I removed the plants, so maybe he just feels safer there and it isn't related to the fungus?

I dunno.
I really love him..

Is there anything else I can be doing for him?

 

 

[Wildbetta]

Can you get pics for us?  Also what are you treating the tank with?  
 
From your description I have an idea of what it might be but really don't want to jump to conclusions just yet without a pic. 

 

[solsed]

The stuff is called 'fungus cure' by aqua master' active ingredients are; 2mg/ml acrifalvine
0.4mg/ml malachite green.

The fungus is actually gone this avo. Yay!!!
And he's moving a lot more.

 

[Wildbetta]

Whew glad to hear that he is doing better.  Make sure with using any medication that you continue treatment if the med says to even if symptoms are gone.  I am glad to hear that it probably was not what I was thinking with the description because it is hard to cure columnaris which is similar to what you were describing.

 

[solsed]

I am/ will continue to use the meds.

I googled columnaris after you said it and he did show a lot of those symptoms!
But he seems to be doing ok.

So fingers crossed!

Poor little guy... I just want for him to never experience pain again.

I'm gonna be a helicopter parent.. >.> I just know it. Haha!