Fin Rot Improving And Not Improving !

Is the split straight with nice clean edges, or is it jagged with ragged edges? Bettas often tear their fins which results in splits with straight edges. These heal by themselves.

Are the edges of his fins ragged as well as blackish? Black can be a sign of finrot but also part of a betta's colouring. Betta colours are quite complicated with a lot of genetics behind it. They can have a scale colour with a different colour underneath. Blue bettas often have red under colour. And the fin style butterfly has been developed where the body is one colour and the edges of the fins another. In tricolour bettas, the body and the fins next to the body are one colour, the middle of the fins are a second colour and the edges are are a third. Moonbeam is not a butterfly but he could have butterfly genes causing a black edging, if it is not finrot.

Clear edges to fins are new growth. They do colour up later.



So, now I will suggest keeping up the daily water changes and wait for the Myxazin. If the fins start to look worse, then yes, add more eSHa 2000 until the Myxazin arrives. But unless the fins do change for the worse, just water changes.

It can take some time to heal.

My last betta started out as a blue/red/white marble but changed to plain mid blue quite quickly. Right from the start the edges of his fins were ragged, sometimes developing U shaped missing bits. I kept treating him for finrot; the fins would improve but get worse every time I stopped the treatment. In the end the bottle ran out and I stopped treating him for a few weeks. As I expected, the fins became ragged with a few bits missing from the edges, but then they never got any worse. He spent the rest of his life with ragged fins, dying 23 months after I got him. I just had to accept that was the way he was.

I would just keep up with the water changes for a week or two and don't add any medication unless his fins start to get a lot worse. Moonbeam might be like my last betta with permanently ragged fins that wasn't finrot.

Good luck.
I hope that everything is ok for both you and Moonbeam.
 

I have gone through your other threads to look at older photos and Moonbeam certainly looks as if he has more colour in his fin than previously.
Fingers crossed that the colour returns to the whole fin.
I don't have any experience with this sort of thing, and my little fella has small fins because he's a plakat, so I'll leave it to the others to offer more useful comments.

Hi little fish
It's very weird it's like someone is painting it back in ! I thought fin rot was bits breaking off but it was like the colour was removed and now it's coming back . I've been googlng pictures of fin rot and can't find any where the fin has gone pink !
It's also returning to his body . But I see a light patch appearing in his long tail . Poor little man . I'm going to the aquariums tommorow as thinking 💭 might rescape the tank with all new gravel , wood etc when treatments over .
Ally

I don't have Myxazin but I do have a bottle of Protozin with a tiny bit left in it, and that says 2 ml per 20 litres. It would appear that this is their standard dosing rate.

Don't forget to remove any carbon.

I have used baby bottle sterilising solution to clean things with, made up as per the instructions.

Do be aware that if you bleach the tank you will kill all the 'filter' bacteria living in the biofilm on the glass. And changing substrate and decor will also remove bacteria-containing biofilm. You may find that you have an ammonia spike, then a nitrite spike after all the cleaning/renovating.

You won't lose the bacteria in the filter provided you don't bleach the media. Just keep them somewhere safe for the duration of cleaning. If you get an ammonia spike it won't last long, the bacteria in the filter media will soon make up the numbers. I just wanted to you to be aware a spike might happen so you'd know to keep an eye on ammonia and nitrite and be prepared to do a water changes if you were to get spikes.

Not really. Those bacteria live in the water and on fish. Even if you bleached/replaced everything in the tank the fish would still have water on it while you moved it out of the tank, and that would be put back into the tank afterwards.

If you do a water change, either do it first then add the medication or on a non-dose day add enough medication to replace the amount in the water you took out.

Most cases of what we call fungus are actually caused by the same bacterium that causes finrot, columnaris. Though there is also a type of fungus, saprolegnia, which can affect fish.

eSHa 2000 treats "Fungus, finrot & bacteria" and Myxazin treats "Ulcers, Fin-Rot, Body Rot and other bacterial related diseases"
They both treat bacterial infections. The main difference is that eSHa also treats fungus while Myxazin doesn't.