Betta Quarantine?

[Its Hutch]

Does anybody here quarantine their Bettas? Do you treat them with the med trio? 

I am thinking of doing a community tank with a Betta for the center piece and am curious if others normally treat Bettas as they do their other fish.

[yannachka]

im not sure why you would treat it any different. i always air on the side of caution and quarantine everything. if the betta is going in first or you are adding all of the fish at once to an unstocked tank then you could just quarantine in the main tank since there is no risk of infecting anything.

[Irene]

I've heard that a lot of people don't treat their new betta fish with the med trio because bettas are often kept isolated in their own container for most of their lives until they're sold in stores. That being said, I took a betta home one time and it died of dropsy within 2 days. Recently, I bought a new betta that I planned on putting in a community tank, and I put it in a quarantine tub for 6 weeks and treated it with the med trio. I'm not taking any chances, especially since the community tank has been running for a while and already has existing inhabitants. 🙂

Edited October 2, 2020 by Irene

[Its Hutch]

Thank you for the replies. 

@Irene that is the exact information I was looking for. 

[Ken Burke]

@Irenebeautiful fish!  Love the contrasting fins