Post by bettarescue on Jun 2, 2017 21:55:14 GMT -5
This Betta will be the death of me....
So we have another weird one guys. To start with, I noticed Orchid clamping strangely two months ago. As hard as I try, I have not found the source. I still catch her doing it, though not constantly. What else, oh yea...A few weeks ago I got some water lettuce (this crap has caused me so much strife!) and stupidly put some in her tank.
Hooray! This time it brought BGA, and another ghost illness. Two days ago I wake up and look in her tank, and her anal fin has an exposed ray and ripped skin, I believe is def mechanical damage. End of day it was all gone, but left a giant chunk missing from her fin. Clean wound, healing perfectly, but with the ray broken off I assume it will never heal whole again. Then today, I wake up to find what I ^thought^ was food or algae stuck to her pectoral fin... so I put my finger in the water and grazed her pectoral... and it was definitely attached to her. Now after eating dinner I look again, and the white-ish kinda fuzzy looking clump is gone...and it took a chunk of her fin with it! $/&"@%#3!!!!<--swearing). Her fins are looking thin, her anal fin is almost transparent in some spots. With that unyielding saddle patch I have never cured, I'm scared shirtless that this is columnaris or that the BGA (which I know is Cyanobacteria Not algae) has caused a swing in her health. Her birthday is June 16th, and I can't help but notice her health has slowly been going downhill over the past couple months. Little things here and there that my husband swears is in my head, things others don't get bc they don't stare at her and care for her like me. Her eyes are bulged, her saddle patch, her gill doesn't close perfectly bc of her oppocolumn, and now these fin issues (never had fin rot in a single fish I have kept, so I'm surprised). Looking now, her pec fin is cloudy where the chunk came off, where it should be clear.
Should I treat? Any ideas on what this could be? Can BGA cause infections, fin rot, or fungus?
i attempted to add a few pictures (that weren't all that clear anyway) but the message about server issues cane up every time I tried, so I'll retry the picture uploading in the morning.
So we have another weird one guys. To start with, I noticed Orchid clamping strangely two months ago. As hard as I try, I have not found the source. I still catch her doing it, though not constantly. What else, oh yea...A few weeks ago I got some water lettuce (this crap has caused me so much strife!) and stupidly put some in her tank.
Hooray! This time it brought BGA, and another ghost illness. Two days ago I wake up and look in her tank, and her anal fin has an exposed ray and ripped skin, I believe is def mechanical damage. End of day it was all gone, but left a giant chunk missing from her fin. Clean wound, healing perfectly, but with the ray broken off I assume it will never heal whole again. Then today, I wake up to find what I ^thought^ was food or algae stuck to her pectoral fin... so I put my finger in the water and grazed her pectoral... and it was definitely attached to her. Now after eating dinner I look again, and the white-ish kinda fuzzy looking clump is gone...and it took a chunk of her fin with it! $/&"@%#3!!!!<--swearing). Her fins are looking thin, her anal fin is almost transparent in some spots. With that unyielding saddle patch I have never cured, I'm scared shirtless that this is columnaris or that the BGA (which I know is Cyanobacteria Not algae) has caused a swing in her health. Her birthday is June 16th, and I can't help but notice her health has slowly been going downhill over the past couple months. Little things here and there that my husband swears is in my head, things others don't get bc they don't stare at her and care for her like me. Her eyes are bulged, her saddle patch, her gill doesn't close perfectly bc of her oppocolumn, and now these fin issues (never had fin rot in a single fish I have kept, so I'm surprised). Looking now, her pec fin is cloudy where the chunk came off, where it should be clear.
Should I treat? Any ideas on what this could be? Can BGA cause infections, fin rot, or fungus?
i attempted to add a few pictures (that weren't all that clear anyway) but the message about server issues cane up every time I tried, so I'll retry the picture uploading in the morning.