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I too have seen a pattern of death to my betta see...

2011-08-16T07:45:43.911-07:00

I too have seen a pattern of death to my betta seemingly from melafix/pimafix. This has occurred treating the betta alone for symptoms on the bottle. But more commonly, as part of a community tank, where the betta was fine and healthy, and suddenly became sick and died, often rather quickly.

So far it has made no difference whether it was "bettafix" or melafix/pimafix.

These are just observations from my experience keeping betta alone and in community tanks. I have no idea why this occurs, just that it does. Interestingly I have only recently decided to discontinue use of melafix/pimafix (today's date is 8/16/11 I decided this a week prior to today). Since reading this article, it has somewhat confirmed my suspicions, though with no absolute reason for the problem, as of yet.

I have just put Melafix in my tank & within 1 ...

2010-09-01T00:04:46.191-07:00

I have just put Melafix in my tank & within 1 minute watched my 6 Golden Pencil fish die! The tank also contains 3 Line, 2 Line, Single Line & Rocket Pencils witch as yet seem to be unaffected? I also have Dwarf Loaches-Chainlink & Striped, a Fighter & some Sparkling & Licorise Guramies. Now its been 90min & at this time seem ok?

This is not the proper forum/format for this type...

2010-03-16T10:59:33.915-07:00

This is not the proper forum/format for this type of question (this is a web page/blog post), please see the links to Everything Aquatic Aquarium forum for this type of help.
Or see the many articles linked to from this web page.

What I will say is that you have definitely gotten bad advice as this appears to be an Aeromonas infection which Erythromycin is not effective for at all (nor is Melafix).
Please see the forum or the links for this disease.

Hello I am in need of some help I have a 75 gallon...

2010-03-16T10:39:38.874-07:00

Hello I am in need of some help I have a 75 gallon aquarium. In my aquarium I have 6 angel fish 1 golden nugget pleco 1 columbian zebra pleco 1 spotted high fin pleco 1 ghost koi(housing him till spring for my mom hes under 4")1 featherfin catfish. Lots of plants.

In the past two weeks I have had a little bit of a problem. My spotted high fin has a 1/3 of the high fin that he had. It has rotted away. My angel fish have frayed fins and on the long fins that come of the bottom they seem to have a white fungus.

I first started treating with lifeguard went through the entire treatment as specified on the box and repeated it. No change. Then I did a 50% water change and followed it by treating with API EM Erythromycin Anti-Bacterial Fish Medication did the treatment as specified on the box. Repeated it still no change. Once again I did a 50% water change and started treating with Melafix and Pimafix. It seems like the fungas is almost gone but the angel fish's fins are much more frayed today than they were yesterday. I have spent a lot of money trying to fix my tank at the advise of the petstore employee's and I no longer trust the advise they have to give. Can someone please help me with my situation.