Me again!

I am SOOO stupid sometimes.

I was doing the water change in Yoshi's tank tonight (Small Hospital tank) and thought, "Why are there all these empty snail shells?"

The medication killed the snails! That means even though I was doing large water changes there were rotting snail corpses polluting the water the moment it went in there! DOH!

Tonight is the night Yoshi moves from Tank3 to his home Tank1 so while the tank is empty of fish i'll replace all the "gravel"

(I left him in the medicated tank for an extra 7 days to make sure he wasn't going to spread something to the rest of the population.)

Hope that makes sense to everyone

Bis

Of course it does. He is obviously healthy by now or he would have shown symptoms of the previous problem. Yes most medications will cause a problem for the inverts unless they say safe for them. This is why some of the formulas are being reworked on the ones most used so that they can be used in tanks containing inverts. I actually used some of them to kill off a horde of pond snails that I had living in a tank that I did not want to have to buy a bunch of fish that I did not have room for, I know that sounds mean but they were crowding the fish out of tank and home. So I temporarily moved the fish and used the meds to get rid of the snails. Then cleaned the tank good and put the fish back after the carbon finished removing the residue of the meds. It went through a bit of a mini cycle but that could not be helped with the loss of the gravel and all but it was effective.

Yes, Yoshi should be very safe to go back to his old haunting grounds and be happy too. He may be a little confused for a while but it does not usually take them long to spread their fins and swim like little bullets. He will probably be a very happy little fellow so watch him FLY!!! LOL. We will expect to hear how he is doing...he is quite the favorite here and we want to know how he is managing.

Rose

Yoshi has been in the main tank for about 20 hours now.

At first he was a bit shy but after an hour or so he was back to his usual self, asserting his domination over the smaller fish and finding his favourite "hanging" places in the plants.

He now spends most of his time patrolling his tank making sure nobody is doing something he wants to be part of!

He also holds his own at feeding time and isn't scared to get stuck in to the Molly "scrum".

I'm so glad he's back to his old self!

Bis

Glad your fish is feeling better.

See, I knew it would not take him long...the little dickens

Good for him!

Rose

Hi all!

Just thought you might like an update on Yoshi?

He is back owning his tank, ruling like the king he is. Not a single nipped fin. The only other fish he will back down to is Rock the big male Bristlenose plec. He even chases off the large female plec!

His Eye hasn't flared up again and the lump just keeps shrinking, it's now virtually invisible.

The only change is he now demands to be fed seperately from the other fish. I pretend this is a thankyou as I had been trying to train him to feed seperately so that I didn't waste the more expensive Betta food on the Mollies. I can now, for example, give him a couple of Hikari Betta Bio-Gold balls and know it's actually him eating them! He even moves the floating plants out of the way so his favourite feeding space is clear! (Don't worry Rose, there aren't so many that he can't get to the surface to breathe!)

I'll try and get a picture of him but don't hold your breath, he's got much more important things to do than pose for me, like chase the Molly away from the sinking wafers or flaring at my cat!

Bis

Am I getting so transparent that you know when I will tell you to watch out for things? That is funny! I suppose I would have worried but you did say he was moving them so I knew that he could if they aggravated him or he needed to for something.

I am so glad that he is starting to feed seperately for his sake and the sake of the other fish too. Bettas appreciate "quality time" with us and feeding time is a great time for it and especially if you hand feed by giving one piece at a time and making them chew their food. Diablo gets peeved with me when I do this and he is really hungry but he has not been constipated or had tummy problems since he started to do it so he can get over it.

Keep us informed as we do love stories about the normal everyday things not just when they are needing help. It will help others to contemplate getting a betta of their own.

Rose

sounds like your fish is quite happy and healthy now. Demanding to be fed seperately sounds like a good thing, at least you know he's got a good appetite!