Audikashi

Ok will do thanks so much for your help!

I have ordered all the ingredients and they should be here by Sunday. However, I woke up this morning and it appears that thing has ruptured over night. @Colu do you recommend the same tx course or is there something else I need to do now? It must have been a cyst of some type?

I have had this Betta named Kento since Feb. I got him from Petsmart before I knew any better. I didn't know a lot when I first got him, but thanks to this sites YouTube channel and this Forum I have learned a lot and have done my best to give him a great home. He is in a 5 gallon planted tank. I noticed around the end of June early July he had a small spot on his R caudal abdomen. It looked almost like a scale was poking out. I was worried it was a tumor so I asked a friend. They said they were rare in bettas so I shouldnt worry. However, it has grown over this month. Any advice as to what I should do? The only vet in my area that sees fish is the Vet school and they are impossible to get into now. I love this fish and I want to slow the growth any way I can. I just wanna keep him happy and healthy. He is eating fine and is not yet affected. The first pic is July 1st and the second pic is July 25th. pH- 7.5 Nitrates- 0 (But I am working on this with help from another post) Hardiness- 40 Ammonia- 0 KH- 60 Temp- 81

Thanks so much @FlumpweeselA second opinion on adding something new to a tank as always helpful!! I will see if stretching my water changes out will in crease them some!

Sorry it has been so long since an update. Kento, by the last dose of the abx, had completely recovered from his fin rot. His fins have now nearly completely grown back. I added 7 new plants to my tank and my tank has been ammonia free for nearly 2 weeks! I do a 30% change once a week to the water. With all the extra plants I started dosing Flourish 2x a week at the recommended dose. Now that since I have added all the extra plants my nitrate level has been 0 even with the Flourish. I have added stem plants. Is it safe to put some root tabs back in or is there something else I should be doing. All other parameters are perfect. A friend recommended I add some shrimp in the tank to increase the nitrate levels, but I took me so long to get my tank balanced I was worried. I have had Kento with shrimp before and he actually did leave them alone so I know they would be fine but I just worry about the water. Any suggestions?

Ok I will continue the Stability until ammonia is 0 and I added my sponge and the new carbon back into by filter since the abx course is complete. His fins don't seem to be getting worse and I think I can even see some new growth. Ammonia was at 0.25ppm all other parameters were good but my pH dropped to 6 would you recommend adding anything like coral? Also do I need to start adding a liquid fertilizer for my plants since they get nutrients from the water column? Also a side note some of the plants I had in quarantine came with a little bladder snail... what do I do with it? lol Thank you again for all the help!

@nabokovfan87 I added began aeration this weekend. I added 7 new plants. I have removed the root tabs. I will be adding a sponge filter when the abx treatment for the fin rot has been completed. I have stopped the Pristine and Stability. Currently all that's going in is Stresscoat and the medication as directed. My ammonia was at 0.5ppm yesterday so fingers crossed! I will also be adding a carbon layer to my filter along with my sponge and the biomax media bag in my filter that came with the tank. Hopefully I am on the right track! Thank you everyone for all your help! I really appreciate it!🙇‍♀️

@Torrey So the filter of the tank I have is basically built into the back of the tank I swapped the disposable carbon filters for the Fluval bio-foam and I stuffed some Fluval Biomax that comes in the bags back there with it. I stuck an air stone back there because the water in the back didn't really seem to circulate. @nabokovfan87 the way I mix my water now is I add 0.25mls of Prime to a 2.5 Gal bucket and it sits until I am ready to use it. Which is usually a day or 2. I have a little heater I keep in the jug I am going to use next. I will be sure to test my water using the method you described!

@Wrencher_Scott It has been up since April the 9th 😓 @Biotope Biologist I have been using API test strips. I will start trying the 30% changes!

I have sand which I hate and want to get rid of in the future because its so hard to gravel vac but haven't yet because I have been too nervous to completely take the tank apart but I do my best with a syphon and a baster. And when I say "Clean" I mean my daily 50% water changes. I was following the recommendation I saw on Aquarium co-op YouTube channel. I feed him 3 pellets once a day. Is that too much? I was only worried about the Anubia because it was so new I was worried I had introduced something into my tank that the plant could have just had on it. I was pretty sure it was my water but I just nervous. I will definitely remove the root tabs when I get home today. I will be adding plants as soon as I get them cleaned off following the reverse respiration protocol. What sponge filter do you recommend?

Oh ok thank you @Colu I'll take them out!

@Guppysnail That is amazing and so interesting. I printed it off and will start that tonight! What an interesting study! Thank you for all your help!

Thanks @Guppysnail I guess I thought since I was doing so many water changes and I was disrupting the biofilter so I needed to keep adding it back. I will decrease the use and see if that helps!

I have a 5 gallon tank with single betta fish in it. It has 4 small Java ferns and recently added a new Anubis that was quarentine before I put it in the tank. I have white aquarium sand as substrate with seachem root tabs added in. The filter I use is the one that came with the tank. The tanks is a Top Fin Premium Glass Aquarium. I have Fluval Bio-Foam as a filter along with a bag of Fluval Biomax media. I have an air stone in the side of the tank with the filter to keep that water back there moving. I have a heater that keeps the tank at about 80 degrees. I add seachem Stability and Pristine at every water change. I use seachem prime to mix my new water. I went on vacation the week of June 13th and I pretty sure the person watching my fish over fed him and when I got back my tank was a disaster and my fish looked aweful. With many water changes and the addition of Seachem Stress coat I got him looking better and the tank looking better ( It was covered in algae) The ammonia lever then was close to 8ppm. Once My fish and tank were healthy looking. I kept doing 50% water changes but nothing got rid of the ammonia. I have cleaned and cleaned that tank. I fasted my fish for about 5 days to see if that would help and I got it down to 3ppm. But nothing I do seems to help. I am at my wits end. I don't know what else to do for my fish. I got home yesterday after work and noticed he was starting to get fin rot so I did another water change and started Stresscoat and antibiotics. Is it time for me to take the tank down and start over I dont know where the ammonia is comming from. I dont think its food I feed him piece by piece and watch him eat it. I just dont kno what else to do. I have other plants in quarentine thinking more plants are better but now I am afraid because the fin rot started shortly after i added the Anubis. Please help me if you have any advice!!