r/BettaClinic

He’s been with me for 1 week, i bought him like that (tought he was partially blind). Thank you !
Tank :
- 8G
- 78 F
- Planted tank
-Cattapa leaves
-0 nitrates
-0nitrites
-0 ammonia

Hello! I'm a new betta fish owner and I have been very anxious since this morning when seeing Opal not acting his usual self. Whenever I'd wake up he'd be swimming around the tank chilling, but today he's now acting very lethargic and I'm unsure if it's ICH or smth else and how to help him.

My dad said to leave the tank be because I had planned to change the water once a week, and I feel so bad because maybe he's right because a lot of things are going downhill and I don't know if I should do more or stop trying so the tank can recover. and to let Opal be because of stress perhaps?

I also did see my plants have brown spotting after the first 2 weeks of everything being fine.

My girlfriends mom kept this betta fish for a little over a year and a half. They kept it in a 2 gallon bowl with no filter or heater. I took care of the fish for a week while they were on vacation, and learned that his living conditions in the bowl were very poor. I really wanted to give him a better life and they did not want to put him in a tank so I offered to do it myself. I did lots of research and went out and got a 5.5 gallon tank with a heater, filter, driftwood, live plants, everything a betta needs. I know you need to cycle a tank before putting the fish in but I couldn’t stand to keep him in the bowl so I put him in the tank and made sure to acclimate him slowly by floating him in a cup on top for 30 minutes. I made sure to keep the ammonia low by doing water changes every other day. Fast forward a week, and he hasn’t eaten a single pellet of food. He has been extremely lethargic and barely moving at all since I put him in this tank, spending all his time hiding. At first I thought he was just taking time to get used to the new tank, but after a week I knew something was very wrong. The first 2 pictures were him in his bowl, and the next 4 are him after a week in his new tank. After looking into it I fear he is very sick and won’t make it much longer. My girlfriends mom thinks he would have just been better off in the bowl, and thinks she was taking great care of him to begin with. The situation is making me feel very guilty. I tried giving the fish a better life, but to her it seems like giving me the fish was a mistake.

Please help me understand what went wrong, and if there is anything I could possibly still do.

I am planning on getting a new betta of my own for my tank I made. I would hate for this to happen again. I just wanna be able to give one a good life.

Please give me advice!!!

I’m pretty sure my betta fish has fin rot. What should I do now? What medication should I buy. Should I buy kanaplex? This is finrot right or is it something else? Thank you for helping me.

First pic is today, second is about a week ago. About a month ago he got cut on something on his side, which is since fully healed. Shortly after that, he developed finrot. So far I've treated with kanaplex, salt, tannins, and methalyne blue. As of this morning he how has what i would describe as a fungal infection. What the hell should i do at this point? He was in a hospital tank for all the treatments, but he started losing color and getting lethargic. I put him back in his 10g and he has more color and is more energetic. Now that hes in the 10g I've basically made it a black water tank. What else can I do at this point. Im so lost

He hasn’t moved a lot before, but today when I went to feed him he immediately started moving when I approached the tank. Usually he doesn’t seem to notice or care if someone comes near him, is it maybe just because he knows I might feed him?

I was also wondering if it could be a sign of distress, like is he trying to communicate his water isn’t good or something? Or is he ill?

I know he’s underweight but he ate 3 pellets today right before these videos, and ate 2 yesterday as well as some frozen bloodworms.

Sorry for the poor quality photos. I went out of town this weekend and when I got back, the first thing I noticed was his face looking “off.” I immediately checked my parameters with my master test kit and all was well. I then soaked him in epsom salt for 15/20 minutes while I did a water change and removed a majority of the plants from his tank (see pic for after plant removal.) After the soak and putting him back, he has perked up for sure. 🤞🏼 I ordered some Kanaplex and Methylene Blue, but don’t want to do any unnecessary treatments. Please help! TIA

Tank is 10G
PH 7.2-7.6
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Tank Temp 78/79
Has Filter

i got this betta 2.5 weeks ago, and he has lost all his colour (first pic today, last pic the day i got him.) water parameters are good, i feed him northfin betta bits and blood worms (i dont over feed). he’s in a 20 gallon tall hex with 5 tetras, and only live plants.
he’s completely active, doesn’t have any problem eating his food and does not hide. normally them losing colour is a sign of stress and them about to die but there is no other signs and he’s healthy. i dont know what’s wrong and i dont know what to do.
i love my fish, im completely heartbroken that this is how it has ended up. i love my animals, and if any one of them have problems i do absolutely anything and everything to help. i dont know what to do though. first photo is him today and the second is the day i got him.
i’m not sure if it’s the tetras, they don’t fin nip, or chase him or try to steal his food because i feed them across the tank from eachother. the betta steals the tetras food when i feed them though.

fluval ac 20-30 filter, low flow, parameters are a-okay temperature is 81-80 (fluctuates but only within that range.) it is cycled and clean and i do weekly water changes.
i dont want my fish to die, and i dont want him to be stressed anymore if he is. that’s a living being and i dont know what to do. please help me.

I have a male betta and I’m thinking he is at least 2 years old, and maybe even approaching 3. He is very healthy, active and eats normally. Only thing is he has diamond eye, so I have to help him out with feedings, but once he sees the food he is all over it. He knows his tank very well and since he can’t see that great I am not going to change anything around.

Today I noticed after I fed him a small bump on his side, and slight pineconing of the scales. It is only on one side. I didn’t notice this before I fed him, but I might not have looked hard enough beforehand. He ate perfectly fine and is not showing any signs of illness. Is this a result of feeding him or do I need to start treatment for something? I tried to get photos so I will put the best ones here but he moves around so much especially while I’m at his tank it was hard to get a good picture. Thanks in advance!

Sorry for the bad photo, but this is Comet. Recently both of his eyes became cloudy, his colours are dulled, and his face/jaw looks rough. He’s currently in a 4 gallon tank, with temp of about 75°F. I did a water change about 3 days ago. Does he look sick? Or is this a sign of age?

He was in a 10 gallon tank a few weeks ago, but I had to move him into the smaller back-up tank due to an emergency with my community 20 gal fish tank crashing. I won’t be able to get him back into the 10 gallon until September, at the earliest.

The 4 gallon tank has a filter, heater, and is partially planted. He is fed Aquean betta pellets daily, and is still eating his food okay.

Any advice or help is appreciated!

So… I don’t even know where to start. I have not kept bettas before and I don’t really like fish either. But the story is: a cowoker of mine got this betta to be cute office fish and they kinda forgot him in a 0.5L glass jar for a month and a half? They still fed him but rarely changed water. I noticed him last week sitting in his own wastes and thought, well, that’s a sad way to go. He was very weak and barely responded.

So my emotions got the best of me and I bought a tank, treated the water and he’s here with me. I’m sure he is not healthy at all but I don’t know what I can do for him. Please help me identify the issues and how to treat them.

Aquatic vet is not a thing in my country.

Thank you very much in advanced!

Hello!
I’ve made two posts before this explaining the issues I’ve had with ammonia and fin rot. After abt a week of daily cycles ranging between 25%-50%, this is my fish. I think his tail is slowly getting better, but correct me if I’m wrong lol.

I’m mostly just posting this to see if there is anything noticeably wrong w my betta that I can be educated on. For example, I still think his gills look a little odd.

Parameters are pictured (I did a 35% water change afterwards)
Tank: 10g
Filter: yes (I have two)
Heater: yes
Live plants: yes
Water is conditioned
Got my fish and tank about 2-3 weeks ago
Betta proofed the decor

My betta fish is having a hard time swimming, he always sinks to the bottom and floats onto his side. Since he’s sinking I think it’s a swim bladder issue but I’m not sure how to treat him. I noticed this last night because he wasn’t sleeping in his usual hide, instead he had shoved him self in between a log and the side of his tank, when I stirred up the water around him he swam up really fast and then back down and in between two plants to hold himself up, this morning he was no better so I set him up the hospital tank in the photos. He also didn’t eat dinner Saturday, but I figured he was just not hungry because occasionally he will refuse dinner and just eat breakfast in the morning, but then he started showing lethargy signs on Sunday and got worse very quickly. He has had finrot for three weeks since I got back from vacation, but I haven’t been able to successfully treat it yet. Currently his tank has a silk plant, hide, heater, and airstone. If I need to add anything else I will. I have methylene blue, kanaplex, and paragaurd on hand but I’m not sure if any of these will treat him or if I need to order something else. What can I do to help my fish?
I did a water test with the API masterkit, nitrites, nitrates, and ammonia were all 0.

does this look like a concerning amount of bloat or bloat at all? if so should i fast her for a day or two? i do feedings of a couple pellets every morning but occasionally ill give her a different type as a treat. I gave her a treat pellet less than an hour ago. She's acting fine, swimming happily and following the snails around and is still interested in my fingers, but I wanted to make sure. I'm semi new to this. Sorry about the poor pictures, she loves to dart around when I get close to the tank.

How to help my fish? Hes darker than normal he can barely swim, his mouth looks rotten and it looks like he has popeye. I vacuumed the tank rocks Saturday morning he was fine all day until Sunday morning he was acting weird So I did a half water change, hes in a small container so he can still breathe as he was barely swimming in his tank. I dont trust random remedies from google and Im not even sure whats wrong with him it happened so fast

This is my boy Pico. He’s still alive.

His tank is about 9 months old and he’s been here about 4 months, the only resident besides ramshorns and 2 nerites. It’s a very heavily planted 10 gallon kept at 76°F, double filtered, neutral pH, and pristine parameters. I noticed a couple days ago his behavior changed literally overnight after feeding him live BBS for the first time. Nothing else in my other tanks had an adverse reaction and I rinse the shrimp with conditioned water so it’s not like he got ammonia bombed or anything. But that’s the only thing that changed and thus the only thing I can point to. This extremely robust and active betta went limp overnight. For the past two days I’ve been monitoring him and his conditions. No visible injury nor is there anything in the tank for him to hurt himself on. He just seemed really lethargic, but still eating and visually okay albeit way less enthusiastic about the food. But the tank is in perfect condition and with nothing visibly wrong with him I didn’t want to medicate.

Until this morning when I woke up and noticed this fuzz on him. I’m assuming this is Columnaris? I didn’t have kanaplex on hand but I just paid out the butt to have some same day delivered it should be here in about an hour. For now I have him in a breeder box with an air stone and almond leaf that I dosed light blue with methylene blue and a small sprinkle of salt. When the kanaplex arrives I’m gonna drain half of it and make sure to get the little specs of salt then give him more fresh water and some kanaplex.

I just want to confirm because I can’t figure out why it would be Columnaris. The tank parameters are literally perfect, I have 4 other tanks that I maintain the same practices on and feed the same foods and everyone is healthy. I’ve kept bettas before and the worst I’ve encountered is dropsy because I don’t have issues with husbandry. How could this have happened?

My boy has pop eye:( Is there anything i can do to help him? I tested his water (all was normal) and did a 25% water change. He was completely fine yesterday but today his eye swelled up so much! Thankfully he is acting completely normal.

As shown in the clip my betta fish has barely been swimming for the last few weeks, he constantly has to rest and takes rapid or slow breaths that are always shallow. He can swim for short periods of time, however when he does his tail also droops. He’s also been laying on the floor of his tank while breathing like this and i’m just not sure what to do or how to help him. His tank is currently being covered to reduce stress, it is heated and has had the water changed twice since this started. The only thing that I could tell was wrong was the hardness of his water if you have any idea what to do or how to help please let me know