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Pinpointing your Betta's symptoms is the first step in diagnosing, treating and hopefully curing your beloved fish.

 

 

 

 

Does your Betta appear flashing, darting, rapidly swimming, have spots on it's body, white string material on it's body?
Yes    No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tiny, yellowish-white spots, loss of color, rubbing or scratching against the bottom?
Yes    No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You fish has Velvet or another protozoan disease.

Treatments:

Acraflavin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White spots which may  cover entire body, rubbing & scratching against the bottom?
Yes    No


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ich

 (Ichthyophthirius), a most serious disease. Almost all cultured fish are suseptable. NOTE : Some fish do not develop spots on the skin. Heavy infections may be on the gills and show no evidence of disease on other parts of the body.

Treatments:

Aquari-Sol, Quick Cure, MethyBlu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worms, gill flukes, leaches, gyrodactylus, trichodina, multicellular external parasites or white spots on the body?
No

If yes . . .

Treatments:

 

 


 

 

Whitish tuffs of cotton-like material found on the fin, tail and body at sites of injury?
Yes    No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grayish white stringy material covering most of the body, white or gray patches?

Body Fungus

Treatments:

Maracyn, BettaMax, MethyBlu, Ampicillex, Acraflavin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appears sluggish, hiding, not eating or may have a swollen body or red spots, red streaks or bleeding on body area?
Yes    No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dropsy

Treatments:

Maracyn-Two

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Popeye


Treatments:

Maracyn-Two, Maracyn,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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