lime_smash
11-20-2009, 10:31 AM
I've I have two 2.5 gallon betta tanks that I have been using for a little over a year. They are the same tank only difference is one has a metal lid the other an acrylic one. Last night I was shocked to find my betta in one of the tanks was suddenly showing symptoms of body fungus and was acting lethargic. Weird. I did a partial water change and started a treatment of Maracyn. I was puzzled because the bettas in this tank seemed to be constantly ill, yet I could find nothing wrong with the water or decorations. The other betta in the other tank had been thriving since he was put in there when the tank was new.
This morning I was even more stunned when I found the poor thing dead. On the bottom of the tank. I was puzzled as to why I had again lost a betta in this tank when I thought I had been doing everything right. That's when my roommate mentioned the metal lid.
Lightbulb. Sure enough the lid had some rust marks on it. I had never considered the water from the tank getting on the lid and dripping back down into the water virtually every time I did a water change.
Could this be why I kept loosing bettas mysteriously in this particular tank?
This morning I was even more stunned when I found the poor thing dead. On the bottom of the tank. I was puzzled as to why I had again lost a betta in this tank when I thought I had been doing everything right. That's when my roommate mentioned the metal lid.
Lightbulb. Sure enough the lid had some rust marks on it. I had never considered the water from the tank getting on the lid and dripping back down into the water virtually every time I did a water change.
Could this be why I kept loosing bettas mysteriously in this particular tank?