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Rabid Betta Activist
I woke up this morning to discover that my male betta, who recently recovered from columnaris, has somehow injured himself. His tail fin is ripped in half down the middle, and he has a very deep, wide, ugly gouge on his face; it maybe have even hurt his eye a bit. It has removed all of the scales, and fleshy colored skin is showing underneath. It spreads from the middle of his head, to down under his left eye, and is a few scales wide. He is acting fine, but I am very worried about infection/fungus. What should I do? Would adding bettafix help, or would it hurt too much? Should I just wait and see, or put a mild antibiotic in the water? Salt? Water changes? I'm very, very worried about him.
I don't understand how he did this. His tank is very safe; ceramic, smooth cave; soft silk plants; polished gravel; covered filter in-take. Yet it looks as though he stuck his head in a meat grinder! You don't supposed he jumped up into the hood overnight and got hurt coming out, do you? I really don't know what may have done this, but I need to make sure it doesn't happen again. So if any of you know any potentially harmful parts to an eclipse tank, please tell me! Thankyou.
I don't understand how he did this. His tank is very safe; ceramic, smooth cave; soft silk plants; polished gravel; covered filter in-take. Yet it looks as though he stuck his head in a meat grinder! You don't supposed he jumped up into the hood overnight and got hurt coming out, do you? I really don't know what may have done this, but I need to make sure it doesn't happen again. So if any of you know any potentially harmful parts to an eclipse tank, please tell me! Thankyou.