My Betta has a frayed tail and upper fin. There isn't any fuzzy or white or red or black discoloration around the edges, so I'm not sure if it's fin rot, or if my Betta is supposed to look like that. (I had a panda cory before that had fin rot when i got it from the fish store, and it's tail was half gone and white and fuzzy, but this doesn't look anything like that.)
My Betta's tail and fins were already frayed in the fish store. Several other Betta's had frayed tails, and I asked someone in the store if it was damage or fin rot, but they said it was normal.
I've had my Betta for about three weeks now, and the tail and fins still look the same as they did when I first got him, as far as I can tell, so if it's fin rot, it's not noticibly getting worse.
I'm only wondering if it's fin rot now, because I saw a photo of a Super Delta Betta, and my Betta doesn't look like that.
My Betta doesn't seem sick. He's very active and playful, a bit lazy sometimes, he eats very well (and he always tries to steal food from the panda corys), and he can swim very good and fast.
He's in a 50 liter/13 gallon tank with harlequin rasboras and panda corys, fake decorations with no sharp edges. They all get along very well, there is no fighting or nipping at fins. Water parameters are good now (ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate between 10 and 50 (my test strips are hard to read, but I plan on getting a liquid test kit)), but I had a pretty big nitrite spike about a week ago, because the bottled bacteria I added were awful and barely had any nitrifying bacteria, but now i've changed to a different brand and nitrite is 0.
The first picture is from in the fish store three weeks ago, the second from when he was acclimating three weeks ago, and the third picture is from today. (His color changes a bit depending on the lighting.)
My Betta's tail and fins were already frayed in the fish store. Several other Betta's had frayed tails, and I asked someone in the store if it was damage or fin rot, but they said it was normal.
I've had my Betta for about three weeks now, and the tail and fins still look the same as they did when I first got him, as far as I can tell, so if it's fin rot, it's not noticibly getting worse.
I'm only wondering if it's fin rot now, because I saw a photo of a Super Delta Betta, and my Betta doesn't look like that.
My Betta doesn't seem sick. He's very active and playful, a bit lazy sometimes, he eats very well (and he always tries to steal food from the panda corys), and he can swim very good and fast.
He's in a 50 liter/13 gallon tank with harlequin rasboras and panda corys, fake decorations with no sharp edges. They all get along very well, there is no fighting or nipping at fins. Water parameters are good now (ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate between 10 and 50 (my test strips are hard to read, but I plan on getting a liquid test kit)), but I had a pretty big nitrite spike about a week ago, because the bottled bacteria I added were awful and barely had any nitrifying bacteria, but now i've changed to a different brand and nitrite is 0.
The first picture is from in the fish store three weeks ago, the second from when he was acclimating three weeks ago, and the third picture is from today. (His color changes a bit depending on the lighting.)
