I feel Awful. I killed my betta. Now I need to clean the tank. ?

Question

I kept my female betta in a 5-Gal tank by herself. She had a heater and filter. last month she started to get a little fungus type growth. I cleaned the tank treated the water and it cleared up. Once it cleaned up I stopped treatment. So it came back in a few weeks.

I think I put too much of the fungus treatment in. I noticed she was acting weird today but I did not think anything of it. Now she is dead. I feel awful this was something I could have prevented. She was fine until I added more of the fungus treatment. She was eating and swimming all happy. But I wanted to get rid of the fungus. I should have done more water changes.

I have been keeping betta for many year I NEVER had one get this type of fungus.

How do I clean this tank out to get it ready for another? Could I just use Salt or should I use a little bit of bleach? Or would just letting it sun dry kill anything?

I feel so bad I messed up big time I know exactly what I did wrong too. Have you ever done something like that?

Answer 1

Yeah one time I did. I messed up big time and know exactly what I did wrong.  I locked a dog in a tiny doghouse and left it there for days until the whole thing was full of dogcrap and it had died.  

Answer 2

i had a goldfish that died once... wouldn't say it was my fault tho i got it from the fair

Answer 3

don't worry about it. My brother had the same problem. Almost 2/3 bettas get a disease called fin rot which is common. It wasn't your fault. Just nature.

Answer 4

fill it up with hot water and let it sit and then empty out the water and scrub it

Answer 5

im sorry to hear that-

well you could just use hot hot hot water. or i guess bleach if you are really worried. but make sure you rinse out the tank until you dont smell it anymore. but i think you can just rinse it because those parasites live ON the fish. once the fish is gone, the parasite is too.

** also, salt is a natural remedy for fish. i would get some aquarium salt and dissolve about a teaspoon and add it to the five gallon. i keep a little salt in my tanks all the time.

i hope this helps!

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Answer 6

just use water and dry it in the sun

next time try using a little aquarium salt in your tank