Whitecloud09

No stress coat is definitely a good idea. U can double the dosage on bottle for it to replace slime coat on your betta. It says this on the bottle. More water changes and continued treatment is all u can do. He prob will heal with time. What is your water parameters? Do u have any aquarium salt? That definitely helped my sick betta. I recommend fritz aquarium salt if u don’t have any and if u do have some aquarium salt definitely use it! Also what was his original colors when u bought him?

Yes it is empty (animal wise) what do u mean by installation?? Ok! What do u mean by pail? U mean add them to a bucket and drip acclimate them? If it was between 5 degrees off and ok I will just let them sit for 30 mins and every 5 or so mins I can add water right? Cool fish!!!! I like those ones with wings basically!

I see….can I do anything to not let this happen?

I have had this experience I mean the SAME because I didn’t do the cycle. First fish died within a month(betta fish) second betta had fin rot as well and I did bettafix and I did fin and body cure.I have personally figured out that liquid treatments don’t help to much as when I used bettafix it didnt do anything. But u definitely did this right and saved your bettas fins! Nice job! It looks very good now! Happy fishkeeping from now on! I would maybe keep doing often water changes though And feed him healthy foods!

Do they need hard or soft? First time getting these boys and I’m going to get 6.

Yes! I did try that after one time and it worked!Thanks

Yes.I have been emailing do Tim’s Aquatics for passed several days and I told hime about the kh and gh being a little low and he said that means longer cycles and told me to do a 33% water change but DONT disturb the substrate…..I add declaranater to the new water right??Because I thought about stress coat will kill ammonia right????? I am prob wrong but first time doing the “fishless” cycle sooo…..

Yes I found out about the fishless cycle only like a couple months ago because I have been doing fish keeping for just a little over year now!

Thank u for the info.Yes,patience is key for cycling I am learning!

Thank u everybody for all the help!I appreciate the time put in to help!😁I will check out those vids! Thx!!!!!!

Yes I know that for sure! I lost my first fish in the first couple weeks!😔I MESSED UP SO BAD!I will not go into that long story but u get the point!Thx for spending time to help me!That was a huge help!I will wait and add ammonia once both go down then done!I will get a bottle of prime too.I will make mistakes I know but I will try my best!

Thanks sooooo much!I had no clue what to do.So guess I will add ammonia when ammonia and nitrite are 0 and next day it will be gone?just triple checking!!!!

Ok.What does prime do?

Ammonia is 4 still…….Do I add more ammonia????????I do NOT want to mess this up! I see….I will continue to wait until the ammonia and nitrite go to 0 and then add ammonia and next both are gone and nitrates are higher.Is this what I do?

My nitrites are 2 though…….soooo does that matter???? I’m testing ammonia currently….. When I add fish,can I add 6 fishes???Because they are schooling fish

I am seeing nitrates!!!!!!!nitrates are 10 ppm now!Does this mean cycle is almost finished ????And when ammonia and nitrite go to 0 do I add one more dose of ammonia?

I am cycling a 10 gallon aquarium and I am using dr Tim’s one and only bacteria and it says it should take 5-7 days(I am using dr Tim’s ammonia too)not every time though…Kh is 40 is that too low?gh 60.Btw I a, on day 14!!So can this slow cycle?Ammonia is 4 and nitrite 2.Ph is 7.4 is this too low for gh and ph and kh??????first time cycling with bacteria which boosts cycle by a ton!So it doesn’t take a month.Can this also be becasue it’s a bigger tank?A 10????I NEED help!!!!It won’t cycle!Or am I not patient enough!😅

I see what u mean by a 10 being to small but everything says minnows need a minimum 10 gal + I prob going to only 6 or so so I see no problem with getting these.Some say minimum 5!So thx for all the info everyone!!

Thanks!I will look into it all!My old heater was horrible!

Nice!I will def get them some variety of foods!!

Messed up what I was going to type 🙄.I’m definitely new here.These are the pics!For the 10gonna add some wcmm and shrimp!

Thank you so much!I am going to get a variety of foods now!I am only going to keep them by them selves except I will prob get some cherry shrimp as well later!Thx for responding!

Thanks!I will definitely get some!

Hello!Nice to meet u!I just joined too!

Greetings!I am kind of new in the hobby and have two tanks,a 10 gal and 5.My betta lives in the 5 and the 10 is still cycling.I just joined and love the aquarium coop channel and website!! I’m super excited about this forum!!!-Colten