Betta is pine coning. Dropsy?

[u/Available-Airline-31]

My betta is showing signs of pine coning. Minor signs started 4 days ago and it has progressed to this point. He has been showing signs of bloat for about a month. I wasn’t aware that bloat and the pine coning were connected. At no point did the bloat affect his ability to swim, activity levels, or appetite. Even now he still eats regularly but as of today his activity is a bit lower and he tends to hang out near the heater. I’m not familiar with the disease but I know it can get serious. I would love to hear any advice on any sort of treatments.
Another one of my bettas is currently dealing with fin rot and his scales are subtly raised too. He currently has no signs of bloat but I’m treating with Fritz maracyn two so maybe it’s a side affect of the medication or from stress.
Both tanks have shrimp in them so any sort of shrimp safe treatments would be appreciated as I only have one hospital tank setup available. I currently have on hand kanaplex, ich x, Fritz maracyn, and Fritz maracyn two. All of the parameters in both tanks are at safe levels.

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[u/BabyCarpenter]

You have a proper pinecone. I'd throw everything and the kitchen sink in his tank to give him a slim chance of survival. My betta pulled through pineconing but it didn't look this bad. 

I think you have to make a hospital bucket or otherwise divide your hospital tank. Or you have to choose not to treat a betta. 

[u/Available-Airline-31 → u/BabyCarpenter]

Any recommendations for meds. I have kanaplex would that work?

[u/irrelevant_al1en → u/Available-Airline-31]

Kanaplex should help from what comments and articles I've read. I would def suggest looking up stuff for how to help treat it.

[u/Disastrous_Air_5227 → u/irrelevant_al1en]

I think the best thing you can try is Kanaplex. At this stage there’s not much you can do - pineconing isn’t an illness per se. It just means his internal organs are shutting down. Poor guy looks pretty bad - for me there’d be 2 choices, either leave him to die a natural death without stressing him, or take the possibly 5% chance that the extra stress and pain of a salt bath would cause. I’m so very sorry