Cleo2019
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Hey everyone! A couple years ago, I had a Betta Fish before named Paul and he lived for 5 years and in a cold environment. However, I was young and to be honest, my parents as well as my older sister did most of the work. So technically, this is my first time actually having a Betta Fish. Her name is Cleo and I love her so much! I got the fish on Christmas day and since that I have found myself researching every little thing I am concerned with. For instance, she had a white spot on her belly and I found out that was just there because, duh, she's a female. Anyways, Cleo is white/light pink. Since the day I got her she as a red spot on her head and dark blue looking color around the red spot. To better describe it, she had a "bruise" on her head. When I first got her I thought "Is she ok?" However, nothing has changed and she has grown over the last couple months so I have assumed that's just her natural coloring. In my research though, I've found there are so many diseases that can affect a fish and many symptoms include things appearing on the body of the fish that are white. But, how do you know the symptoms if your fish is white and any problems that occur might just blend in?
I don't think my fish is sick. She swims around, she blows bubbles from time to time (which I have read apparently are a sign of happiness?), and sometimes she comes up to the top of the water and takes in some air (not often, which is good, because I've read if a Betta does that too much that's a sign of sickness). So the thing is she displays all the signs of a happy, healthy Betta, yet I feel that because of her natural white coloring and her "bruised" looking head, I could overlook something. When I feed her, she happily eats. She recognizes me when I approach her bowl. I clean the water once a week and do checkups to see if anything needs to be cleaned. I even got her some dried bloodworms to change up her diet from betta bits (Top Fin brand) since I read its good to change up the diets of a betta because they get constipated.
So to get to my point, I feel like Cleo is happy. Its just that her coloring scares me and I noticed one day she was getting bloated, cut her feeding, and then her white spot appeared, did research and found out that was her egg spot, her blotting went down (it was slight bloating), but its still there a little (thinking that's just because she female cause I googled female Bettas and they look the same width as Cleo). The thing is I am terrified to overlook something and there's nothing really wrong but her coloring is so hard to tell. Please help! (Sorry for the long post!)
I don't think my fish is sick. She swims around, she blows bubbles from time to time (which I have read apparently are a sign of happiness?), and sometimes she comes up to the top of the water and takes in some air (not often, which is good, because I've read if a Betta does that too much that's a sign of sickness). So the thing is she displays all the signs of a happy, healthy Betta, yet I feel that because of her natural white coloring and her "bruised" looking head, I could overlook something. When I feed her, she happily eats. She recognizes me when I approach her bowl. I clean the water once a week and do checkups to see if anything needs to be cleaned. I even got her some dried bloodworms to change up her diet from betta bits (Top Fin brand) since I read its good to change up the diets of a betta because they get constipated.
So to get to my point, I feel like Cleo is happy. Its just that her coloring scares me and I noticed one day she was getting bloated, cut her feeding, and then her white spot appeared, did research and found out that was her egg spot, her blotting went down (it was slight bloating), but its still there a little (thinking that's just because she female cause I googled female Bettas and they look the same width as Cleo). The thing is I am terrified to overlook something and there's nothing really wrong but her coloring is so hard to tell. Please help! (Sorry for the long post!)