i'm on it!
oh and by the way (this is :OT: ), can anyone explain why my betta has red "holes" in his back fin? he had it ever since I bought him... i thought it was coloring but i noticed in the book i checked out ("Handbook of Tropical Aquarium Fishes" by Herbert R. Axelrod and Leonard P. Shultz), i looked at the diseases section (oh by the way, this book has over like, 700 pages of fish, each page with one fish on it... i counted
) and found out this little article while reading this-
Handbook of Tropical Aquarium Fishes said:
FLUKES (Gyrodactylus and Dactylogyrus)
At first the colors fade and the fish grows very pale; then the fins are folded and gradually become torn, while the skin becomes more slimy than normal and shows some small blood spots. Small blood spots may also show at the base of the fins. Generally, breathing frequency is increased, even in cases where the gills are not affected...
soo..... when my betta comes into the light,
1)folded fins
2)red "blood looking" spot on fin (it's big!)
3)on skin, the back outline is red
what is this???
oh, by the way, this book is from 1955
no wonder it has nothing about cycling... but nothing about aging the tanks for a day or so, or the lifespan of the fish... seriously, this book has stuff that we still (or at least I) didn't know lol. Of course, this book states that popeye (Exophthalmus or Protruding eye
) can't be cured. or at least it states "cures are not known".
i know, long :OT: but still, :help:!
:help:
