We just got a new betta yesterday, and he seems healthy and happy.
I saw a small white filmy object floating in his tank, and then happened to see him open his mouth and out came another piece of the same stuff. The second piece was also white, and looked sort of filmy, like very wet tissue paper or something. Not exactly stringy, but sort of like the dead skin that flakes off you when you've had a sunburn.
Any idea what this is, and should I be concerned? He's in a 2.5 gallon tank with heater, filter, etc. The tank is not yet cycled (long story there, so we're unfortunately doing a fishy cycle). The ammonia was about .25 this morning, so I did a 30-40% water change about an hour ago, and it now measures 0 ammonia. We didn't feed him yesterday, but fed him 3 Hikari biogold pellets this morning.
I saw a small white filmy object floating in his tank, and then happened to see him open his mouth and out came another piece of the same stuff. The second piece was also white, and looked sort of filmy, like very wet tissue paper or something. Not exactly stringy, but sort of like the dead skin that flakes off you when you've had a sunburn.
Any idea what this is, and should I be concerned? He's in a 2.5 gallon tank with heater, filter, etc. The tank is not yet cycled (long story there, so we're unfortunately doing a fishy cycle). The ammonia was about .25 this morning, so I did a 30-40% water change about an hour ago, and it now measures 0 ammonia. We didn't feed him yesterday, but fed him 3 Hikari biogold pellets this morning.