Hello!
I am inquiring to see if you think my half moon betta has fin rot. I have had him for about 3 weeks. When I purchased him from the store, he was beautiful, but did appear to have cloudy eyes or a film over his eyes. However, he was going to be the only fish in the tank - so I really didn't mind nursing him back to health.
The tank was fully cycled and planted before adding him. I have a water testing kit and everything is normal. The day after placing him in the tank, I noticed approximately one scale missing from each side of his body. Since then, his actual body seems to be doing better and I assumed maybe this was due to adjusting to the new tank.
However, this past week I got busy and neglected to change the water. I also let my nephew feed him a few times, and I know there was food on the bottom of the tank (I usually only feed him 4 pellets, this was like 15 so some settled on the bottom uneaten). Upon doing the water change (I did about a 60% water change because I noticed his tail) I also realized that the heater I bought for his tank was not plugged in (I apparently never flipped the switch to turn it on. Dumb). I live in Miami so it's not insanely cold - but its been dipping down to about 55 degrees some days. So now his tank has the temperature set to 80 degrees and I am hoping this is the problem.
Another possibility I am considering is that the filter is too strong? Although I feel like this does look like fin rot. My fish is in a 2.5 gallon fluval spec. Its planted and has Tahitian moon sand. My fish loves to hang out by the intake filter. At first I thought maybe the filter was too strong, but sometimes he seems to want to lay against it and then he'll happily swim away??
My fish is acting completely normal, eating, and swimming around happily. He is making bubble nests and seems well, I am just concerned it's going to get worse.
I feel like it could be any possible combination of these issues so I wanted to be thorough to get good advice. If you need any more information, please let me know! I haven't done anything other than keep the water clean and turn on the heater since I noticed the issue two days ago. Please let me know what I need to do to help my poor fish!
I am inquiring to see if you think my half moon betta has fin rot. I have had him for about 3 weeks. When I purchased him from the store, he was beautiful, but did appear to have cloudy eyes or a film over his eyes. However, he was going to be the only fish in the tank - so I really didn't mind nursing him back to health.
The tank was fully cycled and planted before adding him. I have a water testing kit and everything is normal. The day after placing him in the tank, I noticed approximately one scale missing from each side of his body. Since then, his actual body seems to be doing better and I assumed maybe this was due to adjusting to the new tank.
However, this past week I got busy and neglected to change the water. I also let my nephew feed him a few times, and I know there was food on the bottom of the tank (I usually only feed him 4 pellets, this was like 15 so some settled on the bottom uneaten). Upon doing the water change (I did about a 60% water change because I noticed his tail) I also realized that the heater I bought for his tank was not plugged in (I apparently never flipped the switch to turn it on. Dumb). I live in Miami so it's not insanely cold - but its been dipping down to about 55 degrees some days. So now his tank has the temperature set to 80 degrees and I am hoping this is the problem.
Another possibility I am considering is that the filter is too strong? Although I feel like this does look like fin rot. My fish is in a 2.5 gallon fluval spec. Its planted and has Tahitian moon sand. My fish loves to hang out by the intake filter. At first I thought maybe the filter was too strong, but sometimes he seems to want to lay against it and then he'll happily swim away??
My fish is acting completely normal, eating, and swimming around happily. He is making bubble nests and seems well, I am just concerned it's going to get worse.
I feel like it could be any possible combination of these issues so I wanted to be thorough to get good advice. If you need any more information, please let me know! I haven't done anything other than keep the water clean and turn on the heater since I noticed the issue two days ago. Please let me know what I need to do to help my poor fish!
