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Betta Fish: What is going on with my betta?

I’m away from my office, healing from surgery and my coworker is taking care of him, he has a camera on him at all times and she is super trustworthy.

I noticed about a week ago, he had a chunk missing out of his fin. To me it looked like a fin nip. I tested his water before I left for surgery. Everything was at normal levels.

PH about 6.5

Ammonia at 0

Nitrates at 0

Nitrites at 0

A few days ago, my coworker sent me the picture with the red dot, it’s a new area.

Now today, the spot with the red dot is completely torn off and hanging…

Pictures are in order of most recent to when he first looked good before I left.

1) He eats well, he’s super active. He only has a small snail in the tank as a mate.

2) I’ve had him since January.

3) He has real plants and silk plants. Plus driftwood, a house and a floating house. A picture of his tank is attached.

4) He eats fluval bug bites and top fin betta pellets M-F morning and evening. Fasts on the weekend.

5) Filter is on low flow, lights are set to 24 natural. Sunrise, mid day, sunset, darkness.

6) Before I left I put aquarium salt in and stress coat.

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1stw61c

Posted by picklejuiced00d

5 Comments

  1. AdLumpy7032 on

    To me looks like he nipped it. Just keep the water clean & let’s hope he doesn’t make it a habit.

    Is his tank cycled? It’s not planted emough to have 0 nitrates.

  2. picklejuiced00d on

    • ⁠Tank size: 10 gallon

    • ⁠Heater and filter? (yes/no):yes and yes

    • ⁠Tank temperature: 80ish

    • ⁠Parameters in numbers and how you got them. Key water parameters include the amount of ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, and pH.: listed in post, 0,0,0,6.5 – api water test kit

    • ⁠How long have you had the tank? How long have you had your fish?: since January

    • ⁠How often are water changes? How much do you take out per change? What is your process?: weekly 25% with siphon

    • ⁠Any tankmates? If so, please list with how many of each: nitrite snail

    • ⁠What do you feed and how much: fluval bug bites or top fin pellets 3 pieces morning/night Monday-Friday. Fasting on weekend.

    • ⁠Decorations and plants in the tank: silk plants, real plants, driftwood, house and floating house

  3. mimelasplendens on

    If you have your heater set to an ideal temp (78-80F) maybe check and see if your heather or thermometer are crapping out on you? It could be a heating issue. Consider buying some indian almond leaves to add some tannins to his water. Tannins, heat, and salt are what I’ve used to help with fin rot in the past. If it’s a bacterial issue, look into getting methylene blue (an amount that wouldn’t harm your plants) or an antibiotic like KanaPlex. That’s all I can think of. Your tank looks great!

  5. RadiantPreparation33 on

    So what I would do is make sure ur parameters are correct and then I would boil some catappa leafs in about 5 cups of water in a pot until water is dark tea colored and then I would add api stress coat plus and a couple drops of prime and dump the pot once cooled into your tank allow it to sit for about 7 days at day 8 remove old leafs and do a water change and again add catappa leafs and api stress coat plus if it isn’t looking better by the first 7 days on the second round you can add a little aquarium salt the recommended amount for this issue is 0.5 teaspoons per gal of tank water I always use half that amount because it doesn’t take much . Make sure salt is completely dissolved before adding it in with the catappa leafs and api stress coat plus . Again only allow this to sit for 5-7 days and then after you’ve done the round with the small amount of salt perform a gravel vac and water change and again add in api stress coat plus and prime and your bettas fins will look amazing again. Also changing his food to frozen only like omega one carnivore and San Francisco Bay four food variety and San Francisco Bay mysis shrimp for finicky eats are the best I alternate all of these foods ONLY and all my bettas are beautiful and have very stunning fins you can look on my page if you want to see them I always use api stress coat plus on all my bettas and every single one has had the treatment with salt, catappa leafs and api stress coat plus so it’s safe

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