Okay here's the background.. I lost a betta about a week ago to what is now suspected to be an internal parasite infection.
I have a second sick betta as of a few days ago. At first I thought he was just constipated, but when I looked closer I noticed pine coning around his abdomen/gill area, but nowhere else on his body. I moved him to a treatment tank and started tetracyline. He had 250mg tuesday night and wednesday night. I also fasted him a couple days and fed him a pea. Today he pooped but it was a small amount and it had white stringy stuff all over it.
My question is.. does this appear to also be a parasite and not internal bacterial or could it still be bacterial?
Should I continue through the other two doses of tetracyline completing the treatment or stop now?
Can I feed a pellet now that he's pooped some or wait to see if he will poop more? I'm afraid it is a parasite and I don't want to have it turn to his organs for lack of pellet food.. I can't get the antiparasite meds until at least tomorrow but if my vet doesn't have prazipro I will have to overnight ship which means maybe not even until early next week
Which is bad news but I don't know what else to do..
I have a second sick betta as of a few days ago. At first I thought he was just constipated, but when I looked closer I noticed pine coning around his abdomen/gill area, but nowhere else on his body. I moved him to a treatment tank and started tetracyline. He had 250mg tuesday night and wednesday night. I also fasted him a couple days and fed him a pea. Today he pooped but it was a small amount and it had white stringy stuff all over it.
My question is.. does this appear to also be a parasite and not internal bacterial or could it still be bacterial?
Should I continue through the other two doses of tetracyline completing the treatment or stop now?
Can I feed a pellet now that he's pooped some or wait to see if he will poop more? I'm afraid it is a parasite and I don't want to have it turn to his organs for lack of pellet food.. I can't get the antiparasite meds until at least tomorrow but if my vet doesn't have prazipro I will have to overnight ship which means maybe not even until early next week
Which is bad news but I don't know what else to do..