blue betta

Richard Sexton wrote:
Whether or not you finish the treatment of antibiotics is sort of up to
you. Antibiotics should be followed through because under-medicating or
shortening the course may lead to antibiotic-resistant bacteria. On the
other hand, unnecessary treatment may be harmful to your betta.
I completely agree with you about antibiotics. With only one dose, I'd
discontinue treatment. The worst thing for resistance seems to be
stopping after three or four days instead of going for a full course of
seven to ten days. Even a full course of antibiotics can leave some
resistant bacteria, which is why they should be a last resort if you
choose to use them at all.

No. Untergasser says antibiotics should only be used as a last
resort with an irreplacable fish (think $25K koi) in a glass
only tank. You absolutley must finish the course of treatment
if started. These days it's very strongly recommended a test
be done on the cultured big to see if the antibiotic has
resistance to the bug. If it does not they WILL be dead at
the end of the treatment.

Non antibiotic bacteriocides can be fond at:

http://aquaria.net/articles/meds/ant.../alternatives/

Not quite. Even if a test is done on cultured bacteria and a good
antibiotic identified, there is no guarantee of 100% death. In fact,
it's wildly improbable. That's the whole underlying problem with
antibiotics. A culture is only a statistical sample. The hope is that
the host immune system will kill the few resistant bacteria that remain
after the drug kills 99.999% (or whatever proportion) of the bacteria.
Fortunately, it usually works.

One dose of antibiotics almost never causes resistance, which is why I
told Nikki to stop using the meds. Resistant bacteria tend to grow more
slowly than normal ones. They have extra DNA to replicate and more
proteins to manufacture as they grow. When many non-resistant bacteria
are left after a single dose of antibiotic, they rapidly outgrow the
resistant ones and the population stays non-resistant. This has been
well-documented in the bacteriological and cell biology literature.

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Nikki wrote:
a while back, not to long ago I had got two red bettas from my LFS that is
closing, they were sick and they had got into a fight at some point before I
got them (fins were a mess) and a couple people on here helped me, and they
are doing great now, fins are even looking better
so maybe I can ask one more time.
My husband will be happy at the end of the month when I will have to go
further then three blocks to bring fish home (LFS is closing) : )
They had two blue betta's (who did not look bad) but after a couple days I
noticed one had a couple spots that looked like ick, at that point I should
have looked close but did not, I started a ick treatment yesterday morning,
today I noticed that one was just staying on the bottom of the tank not
coming up to eat or anything, I got a magnified glass and was looking close
at him and thought I seen black spots but they are pin holes, now I am not
sure if in the light I was using it was ick or these pin holes i was seeing,
I think the pinholes are tail rot (tell me if I am wrong) I have an
antibiotic that says its for tail rot, so I opened the capsule and put some
in, now I don't know if I should treat with ick or antibiotic, I figure
while this is going on I will change water every day, but as of last night
it has not eaten, which is not good, anything else i should be doing?
thanks NikkiI
Hi there Nikki
I forgot to send you female Betta pics.
If you send me your regular email address I can send you an entire
album that has many good female Bettas in it (and many other males
too).
I don't exactly know how to add my pictures in one of these reply
windows.
I know that may sound silly, but I wasn't raised with a puter in my
hand, lol.
Regular email, I have no troubles lol.
My regular email is how it's it's listed. Just
Have a Betta day! = )
Kelly

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Nikki wrote:
a while back, not to long ago I had got two red bettas from my LFS that
is
closing, they were sick and they had got into a fight at some point
before I
got them (fins were a mess) and a couple people on here helped me, and
they
are doing great now, fins are even looking better
so maybe I can ask one more time.
My husband will be happy at the end of the month when I will have to go
further then three blocks to bring fish home (LFS is closing) : )
They had two blue betta's (who did not look bad) but after a couple days
I
noticed one had a couple spots that looked like ick, at that point I
should
have looked close but did not, I started a ick treatment yesterday
morning,
today I noticed that one was just staying on the bottom of the tank not
coming up to eat or anything, I got a magnified glass and was looking
close
at him and thought I seen black spots but they are pin holes, now I am
not
sure if in the light I was using it was ick or these pin holes i was
seeing,
I think the pinholes are tail rot (tell me if I am wrong) I have an
antibiotic that says its for tail rot, so I opened the capsule and put
some
in, now I don't know if I should treat with ick or antibiotic, I figure
while this is going on I will change water every day, but as of last
night
it has not eaten, which is not good, anything else i should be doing?
thanks NikkiI
Hi there Nikki
I forgot to send you female Betta pics.
If you send me your regular email address I can send you an entire
album that has many good female Bettas in it (and many other males
too).
I don't exactly know how to add my pictures in one of these reply
windows.
I know that may sound silly, but I wasn't raised with a puter in my
hand, lol.
Regular email, I have no troubles lol.
My regular email is how it's it's listed. Just
Have a Betta day! = )
Kelly


Hey, I just posted to you in another post somewhere, I was asking you some
questions about female bettas I am going to try and get mine this weekend,
but wanted to find out some things first.
I have been taking pics of mine also, but they wont sit still so I cant get
any good ones
My email is (be careful posting your email on
message boards)
i dont know if you have it but you can also post pics of fish at
alt.binaries.aquaria
but i have heard people say they cant not get that board. Any way that is my
address above, looking forward to seeing them, if i get any good ones from
my males today i will send them to you, i got a couple of my gourami and
goldfish, after they ate, only took me two hours. and my dog but he is such
a monster i cant get his entire body in this stupid cam.
nik