I know having hard water can make their fins curl abit which I’m gradually bringing down the ph with tannins. I just feel like something is off, ph in between 7.0-7.2, ammonia is 0, nitrites are 0, and nitrates are 0 aswell. He is still eating fine and is still swimming around, I feel like he might acting abit off because I just switched him from a 10 gallon to the 6.5 gallon due to the original owner of this home having smaller fins and needing more space. He is behaving pretty much the same as he did in the 10 gallon to this 6.5 but he is resting alot more on the foliage, which to be fair there is more suitable resting spots in this tank for him then the other one.
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Posted by yeah_okay98
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• Heater and filter? (yes/no):yes
• Tank temperature:80.2
• Parameters in numbers and how you got them. Key water parameters include the amount of ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, and pH.: already listed, API master test kit
• How long have you had the tank? How long have you had your fish?:the fish – a month and a half.
10 gal- 2 months (cycled for a month)
6.5- 1 month (just recently finished the cycling process)
• How often are water changes? How much do you take out per change? What is your process?: I drain between 35-40% of the water, get the correct temp water in a bucket and condition and treat it before adding back into tank.
• Any tankmates? If so, please list with how many of each: 7 ghost shrimp and one mystery snail in 6.5
4-5 cherry shrimp and mystery snail in 10 gallon
• What do you feed and how much: bug bites tropical formula for small fish
• Decorations and plants in the tank: live plants and drift wood
• If you haven’t already posted a picture, please post pics/vids to imgur and paste the link here: –
Here is the reason I had him for about half a month without a cycled tank. I had the tank cycled after alittle over 2 weeks with one of the packs that came in with the sand I got for the tank, then got my fish. Then stupidly I boiled a shit ton of almond leaves and wood to make “betta tea” which I saw TikTok (which now know is one of the worst places to get info) and put it ALL in my tank and crashed my cycled! So I had to do a fish in cycle and he did fine throughout the whole thing, now we are here and I don’t want to give him a bad life
Not fin rot. But, Stop adding more tannins for now.
You already crashed your cycle once. Let the tank stabilize. Check for anything sharp.
Run a sock across the driftwood. If it snags → remove or sand it. Ph is perfect.