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Hello,
I've about a month ago that my crowntail betta, Hassium had a thin white outline around the edges of his scales. I didn't think that this was such a big issue because he was active and swimming around.
He's living in a three gallon unheated tank. The temperature is usually around 72 degrees, and there are some floating plants and an anubias. I know this is not ideal, and he was living in a heated and filtered five gallon before. This is only temporary because the endlers' ten gallon leaked, and they are living in Hassium's old tank for now. Hassium has been in the tank for about three weeks.
I do two 50% water changes a week, and just did one today.
Yesterday, though, he started hiding in his temple decoration and refusing to come out. His scales have more of the white stuff. I'm pretty sure it's not fungus because it doesn't look fuzzy. Instead, it looks almost flat, like it's part of his coloring.
I fed him some freeze-dried bloodworms for the first time earlier this week, but I soaked them in water for five minutes before: could this have caused the problem, or is the problem some sort of disease?
These pictures were from about two weeks ago. You can see the white, especially on his head. I can't get a very good picture of him now because he's always in the decoration, but I'll try to get one up.
Thanks.
I've about a month ago that my crowntail betta, Hassium had a thin white outline around the edges of his scales. I didn't think that this was such a big issue because he was active and swimming around.
He's living in a three gallon unheated tank. The temperature is usually around 72 degrees, and there are some floating plants and an anubias. I know this is not ideal, and he was living in a heated and filtered five gallon before. This is only temporary because the endlers' ten gallon leaked, and they are living in Hassium's old tank for now. Hassium has been in the tank for about three weeks.
I do two 50% water changes a week, and just did one today.
Yesterday, though, he started hiding in his temple decoration and refusing to come out. His scales have more of the white stuff. I'm pretty sure it's not fungus because it doesn't look fuzzy. Instead, it looks almost flat, like it's part of his coloring.
I fed him some freeze-dried bloodworms for the first time earlier this week, but I soaked them in water for five minutes before: could this have caused the problem, or is the problem some sort of disease?
These pictures were from about two weeks ago. You can see the white, especially on his head. I can't get a very good picture of him now because he's always in the decoration, but I'll try to get one up.
Thanks.