gigirod
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Just noticed a single small white spot on our Crowntail Betta's head. The spot looks slghtly raised, almost cottony. He's the only fish in the tank.
Marley is in a 5 gal marineland tank. The tank does have a filter and we have a bubbler on it as well. We just tested the water and got 0 ammonia, 0 notice, and 5 nitrate. Ph is 7.0 and the temp is at 80 degrees. Marley has been in the tank about 2 weeks. Prior to that we had done a fishless cycle on the tank that took about 4 weeks.
We put some aquarium salt in the tank when we saw the spot and were thinking of doing a 20% water change tomorrow. That would be the first water change for thus tank. There's nothing new in the tank. As for food, we feed him Hikari Betta bio-color and twice a week give him freeze dried brine shrimp.
We don't think it's ich. Everything we've read says he would have many tiny white spots like salt. Can this be fungus? How would he have gotten it? The water is good. How can we treat it? We also thought about using Tetra lifeguard but hesitated because the box says do not use in newly established tanks. Would our tank be considered newly established? Has anyone used the lifeguard? Did it work?
Marley is in a 5 gal marineland tank. The tank does have a filter and we have a bubbler on it as well. We just tested the water and got 0 ammonia, 0 notice, and 5 nitrate. Ph is 7.0 and the temp is at 80 degrees. Marley has been in the tank about 2 weeks. Prior to that we had done a fishless cycle on the tank that took about 4 weeks.
We put some aquarium salt in the tank when we saw the spot and were thinking of doing a 20% water change tomorrow. That would be the first water change for thus tank. There's nothing new in the tank. As for food, we feed him Hikari Betta bio-color and twice a week give him freeze dried brine shrimp.
We don't think it's ich. Everything we've read says he would have many tiny white spots like salt. Can this be fungus? How would he have gotten it? The water is good. How can we treat it? We also thought about using Tetra lifeguard but hesitated because the box says do not use in newly established tanks. Would our tank be considered newly established? Has anyone used the lifeguard? Did it work?