Hello all! New to the forum here and really confused about my poor betta, smells fishy. I'm reading conflicting info all over the web. His fins have gotten 1/2 the length they were, colors have gotten drab, now there's a white spot on his side. His eating is piggy, as usual, his activity level is normal. I have a 5gallon hex tank with biowheel, heater that keeps the temp at 84 degrees and feeding 5 pellets of betta bio-gold daily. Bought him from a pet store August 2012. I ignorantly had hard plastic plants in the tank. I went to France and when I got back was shocked to see his fin loss. I did some research and saw the hard plants could be tearing his fins so removed them. No improvement, more research, cleaned the tank, boiled all rocks and house, 100% water change and added a soft silk plant. Started treating with api betafix, fin tips turned white. Read beta fix was horrible, started treating with melafix and api stress coat+, 30% water change weekly. Now he has a big white spot on his side. His fin color is better but his body color still looks rough. More research, got some aquarium salt put 1 tablespoon in 5 gallon tank. it's been a week, I'm still putting the mela fix 1/2 teaspoon (2.5ml) a night. I'm reading the white is regrowth, fin rot, bacteria, use salt daily, use salt weekly, don't use melafix, must use melafix, keep temp at 75 degrees keep temp at 82 degrees. Any help is greatly appreciated! I'm willing to do whatever is best i just have no idea what that is.
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