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rose1id Small Fry Posts: 3 Kudos: 2 Votes: 0 Registered: 21-Feb-2008	today while admiring my betta tank I noiticed he had some white stuff covering his mouth, almost looks like a beard kind of. is this a disease or some sickness?
Posted 14-Mar-2008 17:40
djrichie Big Fish Rough but Honest [img]htt Posts: 366 Kudos: 309 Votes: 45 Registered: 29-Jan-2007	Someone here may know what this is by just your discription, but you will get a better responce if you include your water perams. and a picture would help. if possible. Djrichie "So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish" Douglas Adams
Posted 14-Mar-2008 21:00
keithgh Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 6371 Kudos: 6918 Votes: 1542 Registered: 26-Apr-2003	It is extremely difficult to be accurate with that amount of information but I am "guessing" it could be a fungus. You will have to give us a complete tank description size, water changes etc also a full water parameters test if you can not do this take a good water sample to your LFS and get it done. The sooner we have all the info the quicker your fish can be helped. *Have a look in [link=My Profile] http://www.fishprofiles.com/forums/member.aspx?id=1935[/link] for my tank info* Look here for my Betta 11Gal Desktop & Placidity 5ft Community Tank Photos Keith Near enough is not good enough, therefore good enough is not near enough, and only your best will do. I VOTE DO YOU if not WHY NOT? VOTE NOW VOTE NOW
Posted 15-Mar-2008 02:02
Two Tanks Big Fish Posts: 449 Kudos: 328 Votes: 13 Registered: 02-Jun-2003	Try some melafix and primafix - sounds like a fungus, but your paramiters would help - tank size, PH, etc.
Posted 16-Mar-2008 06:37
Callatya Moderator The girl's got crabs! Posts: 9662 Kudos: 5261 Registered: 16-Sep-2001	Edited by Callatya Google "cottonmouth". Does this look similar? It could be fungus, but IME it is usually a bacterial infection. Try Pimafix, but if you have no luck I'd move on to an antibiotic. For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett
Posted 16-Mar-2008 14:33
longhairedgit Fish Guru Lord of the Beasts Posts: 2502 Kudos: 1778 Votes: 29 Registered: 21-Aug-2005	Being a US citizen you should be able to get jungle labs fungus guard, which because of its furan and salt content should handle both flexibacter columnaris (probably the disease at hand ) and fungi(just in case its fungi). Takes the guess work out of it for you a little.
Posted 16-Mar-2008 14:42


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