Housing:
How many gallons is your tank? 10
Does it have a filter? Yes- sponge
Does it have a heater? Yes
What temperature is your tank? 78-79 degrees
Does your tank have an air stone or other type of aeration? airline thru sponge filter
Does your Betta have tank mates? What kind? None. (Snails all died). Well, there are freshwater limpets
Food:
What food brand do you use? Omega One (betta pellets, flake, crushed shrimp pellet) and NLS pellets
Do you feed flakes or pellets? both
Freeze-dried? yes- bloodworms- soaked in garlic juice, once every other week
How often do you feed your Betta? How much? Twice a day if flake, once a day if other. He fasts once a week. He also gets live mosquito larvae once or twice/wk, sometimes small moths, fruit flies or insect larvae from my garden/kitchen (no pesticides in use). His portions are two flakes, or four micropellets, or same amount of pieces crushed shrimp pellet, or two NLS pellets. Soaked bloodworms- 2. Mosquito larvae- 5 to 8 at a time depending on what I catch.
Maintenance:
Before your Betta became ill how often did you perform a water change? once a week
What percentage of water did you change? 50%
Do you vacuum the substrate or just dip out water? lightly vacuum
What additives do you use? What brand of conditioner? Prime
Water Parameters:
What are your water parameters? Please give exact numbers. If tested by pet store please get exact numbers. "Fine" or "Safe" won't help us help you. Important: Test your water *before* the regular water change; not after one.
Ammonia: zero
Nitrite: zero
Nitrate: 20ppm
pH: 7.5
Hardness (GH): 10
Alkalinity (KH): 5
Symptoms and Treatment:
When did you first notice the symptoms? one month ago
How has your Betta’s appearance changed? Lumps on his side and behind pectoral fin/gill plate
How has your Betta’s behavior changed? lies still on bottom or near water surface a lot
Is your Betta still eating? Yes
Have you started treating your Betta? If so, how? 2 rounds of kanaplex w/a few days break in between, a week of no meds, now tetracycline
Does your Betta have any history of being ill? No
How long have you owned your Betta? Was he or she ill or suffering some sort of damage when purchased? Nine months. Yes- kink in spine near the tail- see pictures
More information (sorry if this is wordy): I got this betta from Petco. Discovered when I got him home- and could see him better- that he has a bend in his caudal peduncle. I don't know if it is an injury (someone dropped him?) or a birth defect. I was told on another forum that double-tail bettas often have spinal deformities. I didn't know. I love his blue color and friendly personality so I kept him. His name is Sam.
About a month ago I saw he was starting to get two round lumps on his left side. Then a lump showing under the gill or where pectoral fin joins the body, also on left side. There seems to be white tissue starting to bulge out from under the gill area there. You can see in the pictures his right side doesn't have those growths but I just noticed he does have splits in pectoral fin now.
Also he now appears to have a bit of cloudy eye so I started a dose of tetracycline after the kanaplex, hoping if he has internal bacterial infection this could also help? I really think he has either cancer or lymphocystis and I know I can't do much for that. But I read somewhere that internal bacterial infection can also cause swellings, however I can't find any pictures of what that looks like. If tetracycline does no good, my last attempt would be to try furan-2 or to get mycin I and II but I don't want to use more meds if it is futile.
Does it look like lymphocystis...? Please note in the photos, the ones of his left side are a week or two apart. And there's a pic of the whole tank, for ref. Thanks.
How many gallons is your tank? 10
Does it have a filter? Yes- sponge
Does it have a heater? Yes
What temperature is your tank? 78-79 degrees
Does your tank have an air stone or other type of aeration? airline thru sponge filter
Does your Betta have tank mates? What kind? None. (Snails all died). Well, there are freshwater limpets
Food:
What food brand do you use? Omega One (betta pellets, flake, crushed shrimp pellet) and NLS pellets
Do you feed flakes or pellets? both
Freeze-dried? yes- bloodworms- soaked in garlic juice, once every other week
How often do you feed your Betta? How much? Twice a day if flake, once a day if other. He fasts once a week. He also gets live mosquito larvae once or twice/wk, sometimes small moths, fruit flies or insect larvae from my garden/kitchen (no pesticides in use). His portions are two flakes, or four micropellets, or same amount of pieces crushed shrimp pellet, or two NLS pellets. Soaked bloodworms- 2. Mosquito larvae- 5 to 8 at a time depending on what I catch.
Maintenance:
Before your Betta became ill how often did you perform a water change? once a week
What percentage of water did you change? 50%
Do you vacuum the substrate or just dip out water? lightly vacuum
What additives do you use? What brand of conditioner? Prime
Water Parameters:
What are your water parameters? Please give exact numbers. If tested by pet store please get exact numbers. "Fine" or "Safe" won't help us help you. Important: Test your water *before* the regular water change; not after one.
Ammonia: zero
Nitrite: zero
Nitrate: 20ppm
pH: 7.5
Hardness (GH): 10
Alkalinity (KH): 5
Symptoms and Treatment:
When did you first notice the symptoms? one month ago
How has your Betta’s appearance changed? Lumps on his side and behind pectoral fin/gill plate
How has your Betta’s behavior changed? lies still on bottom or near water surface a lot
Is your Betta still eating? Yes
Have you started treating your Betta? If so, how? 2 rounds of kanaplex w/a few days break in between, a week of no meds, now tetracycline
Does your Betta have any history of being ill? No
How long have you owned your Betta? Was he or she ill or suffering some sort of damage when purchased? Nine months. Yes- kink in spine near the tail- see pictures
More information (sorry if this is wordy): I got this betta from Petco. Discovered when I got him home- and could see him better- that he has a bend in his caudal peduncle. I don't know if it is an injury (someone dropped him?) or a birth defect. I was told on another forum that double-tail bettas often have spinal deformities. I didn't know. I love his blue color and friendly personality so I kept him. His name is Sam.
About a month ago I saw he was starting to get two round lumps on his left side. Then a lump showing under the gill or where pectoral fin joins the body, also on left side. There seems to be white tissue starting to bulge out from under the gill area there. You can see in the pictures his right side doesn't have those growths but I just noticed he does have splits in pectoral fin now.
Also he now appears to have a bit of cloudy eye so I started a dose of tetracycline after the kanaplex, hoping if he has internal bacterial infection this could also help? I really think he has either cancer or lymphocystis and I know I can't do much for that. But I read somewhere that internal bacterial infection can also cause swellings, however I can't find any pictures of what that looks like. If tetracycline does no good, my last attempt would be to try furan-2 or to get mycin I and II but I don't want to use more meds if it is futile.
Does it look like lymphocystis...? Please note in the photos, the ones of his left side are a week or two apart. And there's a pic of the whole tank, for ref. Thanks.
Two of my betta had cyst or tumor and died eventually. They looked really bad and painful... I believe tumor/cyst are genetic most of the times because they were brothers.
