The tank is a 29 gl., an AQUEON Quiet Flow30 (for tanks up to 45 gl), sand is from petsmart - the black fine grain stuff, one large plastic plant from walmart, a fake twisted branch from walmart. Water changes are done weekly, treated with Nutrafin Aqua+plus, and Nutrafin Cycle. I have a heater that's set at 78-79. I have 14 baby betas, that's all. Tank was set up first week of January. Bought all the female betas at the same time, as petsmart had a sale - and they were all around 1" long. All got along fine until one started growing extremely faster than the others. I took it out and put in a 3 gallon tk. Anyway, two days now, I noticed two of the smaller ones look like they have collapse fin/tail. QUESTION: should I medicate the whole tank or just pull those out and put into quarentine tank? And what meds should be used? Most say on bottle that betas and tetras and small fry to be med at half dosage. Please answer asap. TIA TRACY
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I am computer incompitant, do not know how- But the tail is not torn, it looks like someone pinched it together and it stayed tht way, like a folded accordian- know what I mean?
You mean tail as just the caudal fin, or the whole posterior part of the animal, that the betta look like she's literally bent?
By the way you have a lot of bettas. Female bettas like places to hide and it would be better if they have more hiding spaces.
By the way you have a lot of bettas. Female bettas like places to hide and it would be better if they have more hiding spaces.
The rest of the body isn't bent, and the only ones that ever hide are the 'sick' two. I have it on my coffee table next to the couch. And they usually just each swim, where ever, randomly,- the two 'sick' ones act like if they could crawl under the log or plants they would!? Like they are trying to hide their eyes? There are plenty of places to hide in the branch/log, but they don't go inside it, just look like they are tyring to get under it!???