Betta Help Needed! (With Pictures!)

**Blue Dragonfly** · 08-04-2007, 06:59 AM

after a few hours in the new tank the whiteness his almost totally cleared from his eyes. it is still on his scales though. could it have been a reaction to the medication the pet store was using?

**Genny** · 08-04-2007, 09:57 PM

It could be from some kind of medicines they had going on in the tanks for them, and now since you've brought him home and put him in some fresh clean water it's all fading away and disappearing. I hope that's what it is--I hope he's ok.

Is he swimming/eating ok on his own? I think I have seen this before a few years ago on a few bettas at Wal~Mart. No offense to Wal~Mart but they don't seem to care for their fish very properly and lots of them die and have ick and stuff wrong with them all the time. Where did you get your betta??

Give it til tomorrow maybe and if it's not any better by then it probably won't get better unless you get some medicine. I'm still thinking maybe ick drops might help???

**Blue Dragonfly** · 08-05-2007, 08:32 AM

Well here is a picture of the fish after exactly one day in his new tank. You can see how quickly he is getting better, but he is still not fully recovered.

I have looked but i cant find anything for ick treatment. is ick called something different? is it whitespot?

**Genny** · 08-05-2007, 07:25 PM

He does look better....that's good

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I get my ick drops at wal mart. They come in a small bottle usually with a red lid on top. They don't come in a box or anything, you just get a bottle. The ick drops are blue and it says ick drops on the front of the bottle.

Is he eating??

**Blue Dragonfly** · 08-06-2007, 08:35 AM

I am from Australia, so maybe they call it something different.

Well i think that he has completely recovered. These photos were taken exactly two days after he was put in his new tank. Now i that i think he will survive, i want to name him. Any ideas.

**Blue Dragonfly** · 08-06-2007, 08:40 AM

Isn't it amazing! He went from this:

to this:

In two days. It is amazing what a bit of TLC and a clean enviroment will do.

Oh and yes, he is eating. Not as much as my other pigs, but usually it takes about a week for them to settle into their new enviroment and get their full appetite back.

This is him in his new tank. On the left is Sunny, in the middle is Sobek and on the right is mr un-named. lol.

**LoraLovesHerBetta** · 08-06-2007, 09:14 PM

Wow, that is amazing. How about the name Spunky, since he rocevered so well and it goes with the other S names?

**tiffanyjohnson** · 09-08-2012, 08:33 PM

try melfix and cure ick it works on all fish i use both on all my bettas

**pomtzu** · 09-09-2012, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by tiffanyjohnson

try melfix and cure ick it works on all fish i use both on all my bettas

This is another 5 yr old thread. In time, you'll get used to checking the posting date before you reply. I think a lot of new folks make the same "oooops". No big deal tho - and welcome to PT.