Re: [GSAS-Member] Betta Blout Now Better

[Linda Knapp <linda@bozuk.org>]

Susan - I have a small desk aquarium set up which Mr. Peachy could  
move in to if you don't find anyone else...
Linda

On Oct 19, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Susan Welenofsky wrote:

> I found a nice peach and red-streaked betta in the orphan tank  
> Tuesday night at the Fish Store. It had blout, but I was going to  
> see Steev at the board meeting. Steev recommended heat, salt, and  
> vitamin-enriched food if it would eat, and to forget it if it was a  
> bacterial infection, since most cases don't survive. Mike at the  
> Fish Store said sulfa, but I thought I would try Steev's methods  
> first. The betta had its scales popping out all over its swollen  
> abdomen. It seemed alert though and like it wanted to eat, so I  
> gave it frozen bloodworms, which it ate. I soaked some bloodworms  
> in some of my vitamins and fed that to the fish this morning. By  
> this evening, its scales are almost down to normal, eating like a  
> pig, and it even flared it's gills at me!
>
> I'm looking for someone to take the pair of beautiful Fundulapanax  
> oesseri killies and the betta, Mr. Peach Surprise soon as I may be  
> taking a trip to Alaska for a couple weeks.
>
> Susan
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