Hello everyone.
My girlfriend and I noticed today that our betta has some damage on his tail that we hadn't noticed before. He had some small nicks in the same spot that I dismissed as being caused by his tail snagging on a decoration.
I didn't think it was fin rot because I never knew fin rot to cause holes in the middle of the fin (as can be seen in the picture), but to damage it from the tip inward.
I took the decoration (now turned green because of an ich treatment) out just in case, but I'm still worried about the little guy. I have attatched a photo for you to see. What do you think?
Close up. Note the hole in the middle.
Edit to add some info.
We have had this ten gallon tank set up for approximately 2 months. Yes it is heated, Our filter is on approximately 12 hours per day. Im not sure of the exact gallons per hour, but it is a carbon filter.
I completely change the water, scrub the sides, thoroughly rinse and sift the gravel, change the filter, and add the directed amount of Nutrafin Aqua+ water conditioner every 3 weeks.
The betta shares the tank with a Guppy, though we have a divider in place because we saw them attacking eachother. We have been feeding him tropical fish flakes. we recently tried freeze dried bloodworms, and was surprised when he became extremely bloated and unable to swim or stay upright. After some quick research we found out that freeze dried blood worms are an absolute no-no. We fasted ihim for 3 days, and he turned out fine. We purchased frozen blood worms just a few days ago, and have fed them to our Betta once. Our idea was to feed him frozen blood worms twice per week in place of flakes.
My girlfriend and I noticed today that our betta has some damage on his tail that we hadn't noticed before. He had some small nicks in the same spot that I dismissed as being caused by his tail snagging on a decoration.
I didn't think it was fin rot because I never knew fin rot to cause holes in the middle of the fin (as can be seen in the picture), but to damage it from the tip inward.
I took the decoration (now turned green because of an ich treatment) out just in case, but I'm still worried about the little guy. I have attatched a photo for you to see. What do you think?
Close up. Note the hole in the middle.
Edit to add some info.
We have had this ten gallon tank set up for approximately 2 months. Yes it is heated, Our filter is on approximately 12 hours per day. Im not sure of the exact gallons per hour, but it is a carbon filter.
I completely change the water, scrub the sides, thoroughly rinse and sift the gravel, change the filter, and add the directed amount of Nutrafin Aqua+ water conditioner every 3 weeks.
The betta shares the tank with a Guppy, though we have a divider in place because we saw them attacking eachother. We have been feeding him tropical fish flakes. we recently tried freeze dried bloodworms, and was surprised when he became extremely bloated and unable to swim or stay upright. After some quick research we found out that freeze dried blood worms are an absolute no-no. We fasted ihim for 3 days, and he turned out fine. We purchased frozen blood worms just a few days ago, and have fed them to our Betta once. Our idea was to feed him frozen blood worms twice per week in place of flakes.