I have a male betta in a 2.5 gallon tank. He used to be in a 10 gallon with 4 danios but we moved him just last week. He has his own filter, a heater set to 78 degrees - don't know what else would be necessary info other than his ph is 7.8 and there is no ammonia present..
Rather than try to describe it, I've uploaded three pics. Not the greatest but hopefully it'll due... They're huge so I'm going to link to them rather than post them here:
http://home.woh.rr.com/saraber/play/monty_01.jpg
http://home.woh.rr.com/saraber/play/monty_02.jpg
http://home.woh.rr.com/saraber/play/monty_03.jpg
From what I can tell he doesn't 'act' sick.. His appetite is good, earlier this week he did make a bubble nest but he hasn't recreated it since his last water change. He doesn't do any of the things described in the parasite comments I've read. Basically I'm just a little concerned about his appearance.
Picture 01 shows the whole fish - I keep reading about clamped fins, is that what his top fin is? Most of the photos I've seen online of Bettas they have their fins nice and spread out. He never does that.
Picture 02 is a closeup of his head, it's a little blurry but you can see a bit of red streaks along the side of his head, behind his eye. Is this normal?
Picture 03 is another closeup, does this look normal to you? The white speck to the right of his eye has been there all week. It was a bump at one point, then it turned kind of pink and now it's back to being something like a white flake. I'm a little concerned about the color of his entire head in general.
Like I said he doesn't 'act' like he's sick but I have noticed that when he flares he can't flare the side with the bump nearly as much as the other side. And again, don't know if this is normal but when he does flare and I can manage to get a peek underneath/inside, it's all red. Maybe that's normal - I have no idea since he's my first Betta.
Let me know what you think.. Thanks in advance for your time!!!
Rather than try to describe it, I've uploaded three pics. Not the greatest but hopefully it'll due... They're huge so I'm going to link to them rather than post them here:
http://home.woh.rr.com/saraber/play/monty_01.jpg
http://home.woh.rr.com/saraber/play/monty_02.jpg
http://home.woh.rr.com/saraber/play/monty_03.jpg
From what I can tell he doesn't 'act' sick.. His appetite is good, earlier this week he did make a bubble nest but he hasn't recreated it since his last water change. He doesn't do any of the things described in the parasite comments I've read. Basically I'm just a little concerned about his appearance.
Picture 01 shows the whole fish - I keep reading about clamped fins, is that what his top fin is? Most of the photos I've seen online of Bettas they have their fins nice and spread out. He never does that.
Picture 02 is a closeup of his head, it's a little blurry but you can see a bit of red streaks along the side of his head, behind his eye. Is this normal?
Picture 03 is another closeup, does this look normal to you? The white speck to the right of his eye has been there all week. It was a bump at one point, then it turned kind of pink and now it's back to being something like a white flake. I'm a little concerned about the color of his entire head in general.
Like I said he doesn't 'act' like he's sick but I have noticed that when he flares he can't flare the side with the bump nearly as much as the other side. And again, don't know if this is normal but when he does flare and I can manage to get a peek underneath/inside, it's all red. Maybe that's normal - I have no idea since he's my first Betta.
Let me know what you think.. Thanks in advance for your time!!!