My baby Purp

Here is a pic of my baby, Purp! I love him to bits! His fins are blowed right now. So I am putting 2 pics of him, one where his fins are normal and then his fins now. He is a Super Delta.

 

Thanks! And the reason his fins changed is because of poor water quality. My boyfriend's parents didn't change my fish's water the whole time we were gone, and that was for about a few weeks and I came back and his fins looked horrible. I've been trying to nurse him back to health by doing more water changes and adding salt and a med that I was recommended to get, but he still looks horrible. If he is still alive by the time we move out, I should have more time to work on getting his fins back to normal. He is getting older now, so there's no telling.!

 

looks real good, good luck getting him back to normal

 

I've got some Melafix and dosed him with it before I got this stuff I got. From what I understand Melafix isn't good for labriynth fish. Something about it messes with the organ that lets them breathe. I used it with no problems. But I don't use a full dose like it calls for like most people that had bad experinces either. It didn't seem to work so a Betta breeser sent me a half a pound of Jungle Fungus Eliminator and I'm still not having very good results. He is fine and all, but I don't want a big infection. I am going to see if more water changes will help.

And thanks!

 

Hey Kayla

 

Hey Julie!!!

And yea, I haven't had any problems with it either, but neither one of the meds I used helped. So I am going to up his WCs so maybe it will help!

 

Well sadly enough, he passed away yesterday. I guess I won't be able to breed him after all! And I doubt that I will find another one like him because I have already been looking for another one just in case he got too old or something and died before I could get him a female. He died because it got down to 28 degrees that night. I don't really know how he froze because he had a heater unless the heater wasn't working. All the others heaters were working fine, and their water was warm. But sadly for Purp, his wasn't. I guess the next male I will get will be off of Aquabid. Hopefully I can find one on there that doesn't have a lot of red wash on him, but I doubt it because that is all I find. RIP Purp.

 

Thanks. And I am just looking for something close to what he looked like. A purple butterfly is what I would like to have, because that's what he was. The whole time I had Purp I was always looking on AB for fish, but I have yet to see any on there like him. I haven't checked in a week or so, so Ima head over there and see what I can find.

 

I am seeing some that are similar to him, but they are short bodied. They were in the HM category so I am guessing the people didn't see the HMPK category on there. There's 2 of them for $30. I would LOVE to have them, but their heads look really bad. I am looking for a good breeder and I don't want the babies to have bad heads. I'll find the link for it.

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I haven't made it to the CTs yet lol.

 

LOL! Yea, poor thing. Looked like he had a hump on his head... his is different than most of them I have seen. Most of them that have the funny heads are called spoon heads, which I have had some but it was pet only. I found one that is gorgeous!

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I found a great deal on some purple CT females. You get 5 of them for $10.

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If they still have some of those by the time I get paid, some of them are mine!!! LOL! I thought it was a really great deal.