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i'm usually very carefull about matching the temps in my change water, but ...... i have 4ltr bowl and a 3 gal both with bettas(so i use the same bucket) and i was about to clean the bowl first and well mr.flutters(little over 2 yrs old) he has had tumurs/constipated /dropsy/swimblatter
well i tryed every thing salt, 78degrees well he used to be very active hunz the name but for the last month he's been slowly getting worse and so the past week he'd bearly be able to stay at the top long enough to eat so i put him down:#( and well got over the memorial and proseaded to clean Orca's 3gal tank gravel sucked and slowly poured in the new water, well now Orca's scales are sticking out is that temp shock? and it's been 4 days and i've put in salt and turn up the temp 2 degrees(orcas normal temp is 75degrees) and he's alittle over 2 years old

90g- anguilla rostrata,6 silver dollars,2 pictus catfish 60 g- anguilla rostrata 29g-4 blk skirt&4 serpia tetras, 6 harliquin resbora, 3kuhli loach 20g- 2 mountian minnows, 2 zebra danio& dojo loach , a corn snake and 2 monster dogs

Kitten and I have both had similar problems with bettas in the past 6 months. [link=here is a link to what we did to help them out]http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/The%20Hospital/61106.html" style="COLOR: #FF1493[/link] hopefully it will help...best of luck, heidi

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