hey everybody! i have a betta who has fin rot - hes had it for a little while. at first we treated him with some kind of liquid medication stuff, i cant remember what it was called, but anyways my mum was kind of more in charge so after a week she stopped it. to be honest she made a big show of how she knows so much about aquariums and reads practical fishkeeping or whatever, but i think she just has a really short attention span.
anyways, we got a new cheap tank and filled it with water - it has only a couple of artificial plants, no gravel, just nothing that should be able to collect to many germs. we're treating the water with a kind of salt medication, and change the water every/every other day.
we've done it for a week now, so we need to have a break for a little while then start the medication again. we cant see any difference in him yet which i imagine is to be expected but
here are my questions:
will his fins really heal and grow back? i heard they would grow back but i just feel a little skeptical. i mean, im sure itll help, but will i even be able to notice a difference? how will i know if he's better
then the other question is
if he does get better, then what? surely putting him back in his nice old tank will make him catch it again, unless there is a way to treat the water while he's not in it to eradicate the germ for when he gets put back in? will he have to live in the nasty sterile cheapo tank forever and be treated forever?