Recent content by sunflower430

Glad you made a decision! Hope it all works out well!

He also looks like he's hiding in the darkest corner. Maybe dimming the lights a bit or adding more coverage might help coax him back out. You could also try feeding with lights off to see if he'll come out to eat more readily (as long as he can see the food still).

"A 5 gallon is definitely big enough." 2 weeks later... "This 10 gal is surely enough." 6 month later... "Ok 20 gallons is my max!" 2 more years... "Do I go with the 40 or just skip to 75?" :rolleyes:

Wonder if you might want to give the other tank one more try now that he's a bit older, has had time to learn how to interact with other fish, and showing he can hold his own in this tank.

A water change was what I was going to recommend starting with. Do you have the ability to get him isolated in a quarantine tank to be able to observe better and see if his behavior changes when he is not around other fish? Are any of your honeys showing their "breeding dress"... a dark/black...

Poor thing is looking extremely unwell and uncomfortable. Is he eating? Do you have a quarantine tank you can move him to? I hope others have suggestions, but if my fish was like this for going on 3 days I would probably be considering euthanasia. Hard for me to see the spots you are mentioning...

Unfortunately deaths happen. How many fish do you have in your tank total? (Like what is the ratio of healthy fish to deaths?) I think everyone gets a little burned out from time to time, especially when you run into a string of bad luck. When I get burned out with my fish, I usually play around...

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My big fin betta boy had bulges in that area... I think it was an enlarged swim bladder to help with his buoyancy due to all the fin weight. It was normal for my guy and he lived a normal lifespan (~3 year). Can see it good here. Your guy's bump maybe is a bit farther forward so maybe not the...

Wondering about your water parameters.... is there a chance your cycle somehow crashed?

Pineconing will be scales all over sticking up. He will look spikey from the top instead of smooth and flat. So he looks like a pinecone. You can search picture examples.

Could have maybe been the pellet clicking against the tank too. He's surely fine... hopefully he would adjust his approach if it was causing him damage? Or maybe I'm giving them too much credit...

Yes I am a very slow adder of new fish... learned the hard way a few years ago with a new white skirt tetra that I didn't notice right away had ich and had to treat my whole main tank... didn't lose anyone but my silicon never quite returned back to its original color :mad:

Looks like normal betta patrolling to me but maybe just more excited than normal for her for some reason? Seems like when she was over on the left side of the tank she could have been looking back and forth at snails in the area. Maybe she is more active than normal checking out the new baby...

Tell me all of your personal experiences with betta in community tanks! I am considering trying one out, but I have only ever had solo betta tanks so I'm nervous. How did they work for you? Male or female? What tank mates? Tank size? Would you do it again? Anything else I should know? Thanks!