Posted by Chel on February 15, 2003 at 19:17:49:
ok, here goes.
10 gal tank- male betta, 2 platies, snail. temp 78,
last week, i noticed the betta had a small fungus patch on the side of his head, i quickly treated him with maracide, 1 drop per gallon every 24hrs for 5 days. After about 4 days, it was slowly going away, but on the net, i found info saying to treat fungus on bettas with malachite green, so i bought malachite plus and started treatment. discontinue carbon filtration, no lighting, use 3 drops per gallon every other day for a total of 3 treatments, then add fresh carbon to filter at end of treatment.
Now heres the problem, yesterday was the third treatment, u can hardly see the fungus, its just kindof a raised spot on his head, well then i notice 1 of the platies has a fungus spot on the end of one of his fins, i couldnt really tell, the betta might have beaten him up, so i add the last dose and thats that. today, 24hrs later, i find that he has 2 fungus spots on his tail, 1 on his body and more on his fins. Now what!!! betta is improving and the other platy seems ok. so should i go back to maracide, or continue with malachite? (it seems to me that the maracide made a bigger improvement than the malachite)also, what about using melafix? is continuing meds longer than instructed going to cause stress? should i take male betta out and put him in a bowl, he would be going froms temp of 78F to 68F, or will that cause more stress than leaving him? sorry for this being so long, hopefully more detail will help.
Please reply asap.
