Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / August 2007

Pay no attention to the troll.
He's a nutcase that can't get enough attention at home.
He's also taken it apon himself to cross post your thread into other
groups  (*Newsgroups: rec.ponds, rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc,
rec.aquaria.freshwater.goldfish From: Tristan <Willi...@gmail.com> .
**)
His specialty is spamming up groups with vulgar, false posts.

Anyway, I asked why you posted about your Betta on a Goldfish in hopes
that it wasn't being kept *with* Goldies, that's all.
Pay no attention to Tristan, as he will soon show his true colors.

On Aug 14, 11:50?am, dr-s...@wi.rr.com wrote:

I've also seen this happen when it had nothing to do with the water
parameters, and was contagious.
It was several years ago. A local pet shop had an entire shipment of
female Bettas come down with it.
The new arrivals were the first to show symptoms, and it went very
fast. When you noticed fins with black patches, in a matter of hours
it grew. In no time the entire fin was black and then would start to
fall apart.
A few days later the batch of females that were already in this same
tank started showing the same symptoms.
Females that I bought that were in quarrantine all quickly died the
same way.
In near 30 yrs I've only seen this twice, and only with Bettas.
The male that became infected twisted his black fins before the dead
tissue fell off.
Being that Nicki didn't leave enough information about the fish, his
tank situation, etc...by asking if he was still alive I was hoping she
would post back and then give out the much needed information.
His tank situation could have been perfect, and in that case I would
lean towards a bacterial infection.
If it was dismal, obviously they're most likely burnt.
Without more information, no one knows.