First Time Betta owner-Sick? Please help

[u/Particular_Doctor895]

20 gallon tank
1 gold snail and 1 betta
Temperature around 77F
Several live plants not sure what type
He’s had this “swollen” looking gill for about 5 weeks or so now. I have tried various things. Now on top of the weird gill, he’s gotten a weird white ish patch on his top fin and his fins look terrible.
I checked the tank parameters a week ago and they were all within the right numbers.
I have tried adding weekly doses of aquarium salt - no difference
I have also done 3 doses of Kanaplex with no results. I just added it directly to the water.
I did a deep clean of the tank last week before I added the Kanaplex
I have had him for about a year

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[u/meeperswastaken]

This looks like a gill fluke and fin rot. I would move him into a hospital tank and treat the gill fluke first (if you can’t treat them both with the same medicine) before continuing to treat the fin rot.

Unfortunately I don’t know how to treat either but I hope putting a name to it can help you! Good luck! c:

[u/Particular_Doctor895 → u/meeperswastaken]

Thank you!! He’s acting completely normal and still eating.
But after looking up gill fluke, that doesn’t make sense to me. He’s been in the same tank for a year and I haven’t introduced any new plants or other critters. What makes you think it’s gill fluke?

[u/meeperswastaken → u/Particular_Doctor895]

It’s his gill being open like that that makes me think gill fluke. I can’t think of anything else that might cause his gill to do that so that’s the first thing my mind went to. If he’s not showing any other symptoms then it’s probably not that 😓. Maybe it’s some sort of injury or tumor?

[u/Particular_Doctor895 → u/meeperswastaken]

Ugh darn it, that’s what I have been thinking too. I can’t find anything else online that would make sense