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I've read somewhere that if ammonia poisoning gets really bad, it can remove the scales of a betta fish. Well, the betta fish I rescued, it looks like some of his scales are missing around his face. It looks like he has a small wound on the top of his head, I'm suspecting because the poisoning got so bad. Does anyone know what the best way to treat it is? I have him in a heated, 2.5, filtered tank and he's been slowly getting more active and energetic in general. Whenever he's "relaxing", he's "sitting" on his side, generally against a corner of the tank or the wall of the tank. I've also noticed his pigment/brightness slowly starting to get restored. I use prime to condition the tank, and all the readings right now are '0' (nitrite, nitrate, ammonia) and the ph is around 6.8. He normally eats some blood worms, betta flakes, and shrimp pieces every night besides saturday and sunday (when i let his system "clear out").
I'm thinking maybe getting bettafix and/or aquarium salt. What do you recommend? Could ammonia poisoning cause open wounds? The spot on his head is NOT bleeding.
(this is not a picture of my fish, but this is what his face looks like, the spot isn't quite as big as in this picture http://0.tqn.com/w/experts/Fish-1472/2009/11/Betta-Fish_6.jpg)
I'm thinking maybe getting bettafix and/or aquarium salt. What do you recommend? Could ammonia poisoning cause open wounds? The spot on his head is NOT bleeding.
(this is not a picture of my fish, but this is what his face looks like, the spot isn't quite as big as in this picture http://0.tqn.com/w/experts/Fish-1472/2009/11/Betta-Fish_6.jpg)