Hi all,
I'm very sad to let you all know that I had to put my beautiful Betta, Barquentine to sleep on Sunday.
I don't know if any of you had read my email a couple of months ago asking advice from Sue because he seemed to have developed a lump on the back of his head and I was worried it might be a tumor.
I decided to let him be for the time being, because he was lively and eating and his behaviour was normal.
Over the last week, though I noticed his fins becoming very ragged. I treated him with ESHA, but things didn't improve and the lump (which had got much bigger) started to look like it was breaking open. He then stopped eating for a day and began lying on the bottom of the tank inside his wooden cave, only coming up for air.
I couldn't let him go on that way, so I sent him to sleep with some clove oil.
Very sad at his passing and not sure what I'll do now – I don't really feel like getting another betta at the moment, but maybe time will tell. All other fish are fine though.