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I'm at my wit's end, I've done the daily 75% water changes for a week and doubled the salt after 48 hours but my poor betta is looking worse. His fins are more tattered now and the red mark on his Sprig has spread to the other side. I've attached a picture, you can see the top fin is losing color ...

I'm going to take a guess here, but it looks like there's a lot of excess mucous covering your betta, which is usually a sign of something in the water irritating him or maybe an external protozoan infection like Costia, Chilodonella or Trichodina. I've heard that flour can treat these kinds of ...

I posted here before about my betta's gray face and belly, and everyone said it was fine as long as it didn't spread. Now I'm about to set up a salt hospital tank for him because his fins are a bit rough, but this morning I woke up to a bright red mark on his gill (pic). My 16-gallon planted tank ...

Hi there,
I just got some sinking wafers for my assassin snails since I'm running low on pest snails.
I dropped a wafer in, and it sank without my fish noticing - or so I thought. But when I checked later, my fish was super swollen with no wafer in sight. I'm planning to fast him for now and maybe ...