Betta Fight...
Forum rules
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
HOLY CRAP!?!?!? ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!!?!?!?!? Wow... I wish you guys couldve seen my face when I read
"Well, my dog had some brown stuff on its foot when it came inside, so I just cut his foot off..." (LOL! THEN HERE'S THE BEST PART!!!) ...after posting that, "Is this ok?"
LOL! They just wanna hear ayes from some idiot... Never a no, your a friggin drain on society...
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/vie ... light=slap
[JOKE:] "Yea, my cat's hair started shedding so I shaved it..." ORBoxermom wrote:Because no one responded to his post fast enough, he went ahead and cut its fins off.
"Well, my dog had some brown stuff on its foot when it came inside, so I just cut his foot off..." (LOL! THEN HERE'S THE BEST PART!!!) ...after posting that, "Is this ok?"
LOL! They just wanna hear ayes from some idiot... Never a no, your a friggin drain on society...
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/vie ... light=slap
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Hey, I do all that all the time, that's how I make a living!"Yea, my cat's hair started shedding so I shaved it..."
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
[UPDATE] My betta is looking much much better. The torn fins look to be healing considerably. They went from visibly torn and rigid to a smooth healed look. They're also growing back out. Now, hes in a fish bowl cuz I wanna watch him and not make him extert extra energy by swimming against a current or anything... However, I am going to get him a 2.5 gallon with his old Cascade 80 filter.
Sad tho cuz I gotta leave him here with mom when I move to college... I'll miss him but will be able to see him when I come home once a week to do a WC. And hes 3+ years old and going strong!
Sad tho cuz I gotta leave him here with mom when I move to college... I'll miss him but will be able to see him when I come home once a week to do a WC. And hes 3+ years old and going strong!