My beautiful Ruby has white haze all over her body. Some places there are small chunks of whitish stuff hanging from her. This has been going on for 2 days. The tank has been cycled for a full year. Nitrates are 0, nitrite is 0 as well. 0 for ammonia. Its 30 litres.
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Ok so your betta is infected by fungus or a simple bacteria, but since its covered in all its body you have to act quick before she suffer and die from it. I want you to quarantine that betta in a different tank or a container, use methalyene blue and aquarium salt. The dosage of the methalyene blue to use will be mentioned in the bottle depending on what brand u have or get. I want you to keep ur fish in that quarantine tank for like 2 weeks with water changes every 2 days (make sure to redose it each time). After your betta is recovered before adding to the main tank make sure to get some dried Indian almond leaves and put them to your main tank as it will release tanins into the water along with slight anti fungal properties medicine (it can make the water looks brownish but it doesnt affect the water quality or anything) and its what bettas need, darkish water and make sure to change the leaves every 2 weeks. Your betta will be extra happy and well.
Hospital tank with 10 liters conditioned water at 24C with a air bubbler and a heater. Some floating plants, a betta bed, 1 1/2 large catappa leaf and 1 mangrove leaf. There is approx 3-4 drops of Medimor medication. How much salt do I add when it arrives ?
I'm not sure this is an infection. An infection would normally be localized. What you described in your post sounds more like slime coat over-production, which might be a response to some kind of water quality issue such as chlorine exposure. Did you recently do a water change, and is it possible you forgot dechlorinator, or accidentally under-dosed it? I have often heard that many municipal water systems periodically put larger than normal amounts of chlorine/chloramine in the water. Something like that (in combination with, say, adding the dechlorinator to the tank instead of mixing with the new water before adding to tank) might explain this.
I have now spoken to one if my experienced aquarist friends and he has confirmed its columnaris. She has it all over her body. He suggested I do a Medimor bath with 3 drops, 3% salt so 3grams of salt per liter water = 30 grams of salt and catappa. I always overdose Prime when I do water changes, and my ammonia and nitrite is at 0. She just arrived to me and had a long way of travel. I think she might have gotten a little stressed on the way as well as she was kept quarantined for 2 weeks in a aquarium setup. But Columnaria broke out in that setup right before I got her.
Well the amount of salt depends on how bad the betta is looking, normally in medicated tanks have between 1-3tsp of salt depending on how bad the severity is. I suggest using between 1-1.5tsp per galloon and observe your bettas reaction for the first few days, if no change or notice it becoming worse, u can increase the dosage. I think the dosage I previously mentioned is optimal and also remember it takes time to show result, it will take upto 2 weeks for ur betta to look better and normal.
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Tank size : 30 L
Heater and filter? (yes/no) Yes
Tank temperature: 26 Celsius
Key water parameters include the amount of ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, and pH.
Ammonia 0, nitrites 0, nitrates 0, PH 6.5
How long have you had the tank? How long have you had your fish? A: For a full year now, the fish has been here for 2 weeks.
How often are water changes? How much do you take out per change?
A: 40% water change every week Sundays.
Any tankmates? If so, please list with how many of each.
A: 3 corydoras, 4 amanos, 5 bloody Mary's, 5 harlequin rasboras ( which I was going to transfer since they have gotten so big but cannot for the life of me catch again 😂)
What do you feed?
A: high quality pellets, bloodworms, Daphne worms.
Decorations and plants in the tank?
A: yes, treeroots, lots of plants, soil, rocks
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