Betta Revive or Salt?

Question

After breeding my Betta's, my female got some fin tears and lost some scales. Can i use betta revive ( the dorky looking bottle with blue liquid and a red cap) or should i just use some aquuarium salt? Please answer quick

Answer 1

Use use a medicinal dose of aquarium salt, and make sure to keep the water very clean with regular water changes. Nothing is a better healer for torn fins than pristine water.

I would even suggest not using the betta revive. It is a mix of various medications. If you were ever to encounter a real disease, you'd want to treat it with a proper medication, not some random mix and hope you get lucky.

Edit to add: Please, do NOT use betta fix as the other user suggested. Betta fix is not a medication, but a tonic made from tea tree oil. And it is actually harmful for bettas and other labyrinth fish. Below is a link, explaining the danger.

Answer 2

The use a bit of salt to kill bacteria, the betta revive stuff is good for prevention and you should have some in the tank already. If you don't already have some, use a bit of Betta Fix. The betta fix agitates the cells in the wounds so that they heal faster. X3 For my Bettas, I normally add betta revive and salt as a preventitve anyways to the normal tank,

Answer 3

Your female has likely just suffered from sexual activity, the male probably slapped her around a little bit, this is fairly common for fish breeding, and usually make full recoveries on their own. I wouldn't recommend using anything with antibiotic remedy (I've never worked with bettas directly, and so have never used betta revive), if there is antibodies in the solution, it could cause resistance to develop towards common bacteria which may be in the tank and only very mildly infecting your fish, if this were to happen, your betta could begin to get strange mystery illnesses the rest of its life... So I would first go with salt, as salt does not inhibit any medical treatments, its a good first step, and if it progresses, adding your betta reapair or betta fixerupper whatever wont cause any conflicts. The salt either way will provide pain therapy and reduce the swelling, which will directly speed up the recovery process.

If you start to notice the surrounding scales from its scales wounds lose colour, or that the tears in the fins have gotten worse since you seperated her from the male after breeding, then seek an antibiotic immediately. Maracyn, I just dont think I trust your betta reassemble stuff, anything with a retarded name like that, an even tackier bottle and costing less than five dollars is not only probably not going to help anything, but make stuff worse... Low quality chemicals really, really, really suck...  But like I said, I dont use it, if it has a big brand name slapped on it like Mardel or Hagen and the stuff came in a 2oz bottle and cost you 50 dollars, its probably better quality than I give it credit for.

Either way, physical damage does not call for medication until the injuries become infected. Compare it to falling down a flight of stairs or getting into a fist fight, you can go to the doctor all you want, he wont send you home with anything but tylenol, which we'd here compare to the salt.

Unnecessarily medicating fish causes loads of problems that people dont even realize later on down the road, its always best to be sure, while at the same time giving your fish everything it needs.

You should be able to identify if it needs the medication to get through the night by the time you go to bed, else you'll know it wont survive tomorrow if you wake up and the symptoms appear. Sadly its a little touch and go....

Also if the scale was fully removed as a dentist removes a tooth, you'll be A-OK, if it was torn out, it may abcess and become seriously infected, that will be a good key to try to find, also if its torn, and the damage spreads to other scales as she moves around, it needs medicating immediately also, but only time tells that either.....

Hope it works out, and you have many many many babies :D, I'm sure Mom will turn out just fine with some R&R and a wee bit of TLC

P.S. I know that Melafix will do better than bettafix, its nearly the same thing, the eucalyptys extract is extremely efficient at killing resistant strains of bacteria, I see someone was thumbs downed for saying to have betta makerupper  in there already, if its the sister product of Melafix, it is absolutely something you shoudl toss in there immediately, they've no real antibiotics in them, made of all natural ingredients so as to not do what I disapproved of, developping resistant bacteria... These products are often used in combination with their sister products for their different small advantages, and are some of the best products on the market

I knew betta repair sounded really sketchy lol

P.P.S. ok thumb me down too, give it cyanide or something... if you follow these thumbs your fish will be screwed, your forum post (not website really, its much less informative and free just like this place) has inconclusive accusations from google searches. Its hardly something to ride on