goodeyesniper
Aquarium Advice Activist
Hello everyone!
While feeding my Betta this afternoon, I noticed that, depending on the light, he had a tiny tiny white-ish/grey spot on the center his head. I just eyeballed it with a ruler and it is approximately 1mm in size.
I've had him for maybe a month now, I do weekly PWC (usually 10-25%) and I'm pretty consistent with them, but sometimes I might go a day or two longer than a week. He is alone in a 2gal hex tank with a heater and fake plants. I feed him once a day, and he fasts one day a week to digest
He isn't acting different or scratching his head against anything. He's swimming around now at a normal pace, his fins aren't clamped, he's not extra aggressive, so I'm stumped. He's even building a bubble nest!
The only thing I can think of is that maybe he has some dust stuck to him. I just bought a Top Fin gravel vac and I was trying to start it up by moving it rapidly like the packaging told me, and I couldn't get it to work. I went back to PetSmart and they showed me how to work it. I still couldn't get it to work, all that ended up happening was that a lot of dust and debris was kicked up while I was trying to work it, and thus my water was very cloudy for a day or so. I was planning to completely clean out the tank and do a 100% WC and gravel cleaning in the near future, but I want to wait now until I get some advice.
The debris has finally settled and now I see this odd speck. PetSmart told me it could be the beginning of a fungal infection. It's not cotton-y at all. Just a strange discoloration of his skin that I can only see at certain angles. I bought API Pro Series Fungus Cure but I don't want to use it if it's not an infection.
I haven't tested the water yet and I need to run to work so I can't, but can anyone help a newbie out?
While feeding my Betta this afternoon, I noticed that, depending on the light, he had a tiny tiny white-ish/grey spot on the center his head. I just eyeballed it with a ruler and it is approximately 1mm in size.
I've had him for maybe a month now, I do weekly PWC (usually 10-25%) and I'm pretty consistent with them, but sometimes I might go a day or two longer than a week. He is alone in a 2gal hex tank with a heater and fake plants. I feed him once a day, and he fasts one day a week to digest
He isn't acting different or scratching his head against anything. He's swimming around now at a normal pace, his fins aren't clamped, he's not extra aggressive, so I'm stumped. He's even building a bubble nest!
The only thing I can think of is that maybe he has some dust stuck to him. I just bought a Top Fin gravel vac and I was trying to start it up by moving it rapidly like the packaging told me, and I couldn't get it to work. I went back to PetSmart and they showed me how to work it. I still couldn't get it to work, all that ended up happening was that a lot of dust and debris was kicked up while I was trying to work it, and thus my water was very cloudy for a day or so. I was planning to completely clean out the tank and do a 100% WC and gravel cleaning in the near future, but I want to wait now until I get some advice.
The debris has finally settled and now I see this odd speck. PetSmart told me it could be the beginning of a fungal infection. It's not cotton-y at all. Just a strange discoloration of his skin that I can only see at certain angles. I bought API Pro Series Fungus Cure but I don't want to use it if it's not an infection.
I haven't tested the water yet and I need to run to work so I can't, but can anyone help a newbie out?
