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 Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:20 am
Hey! I tend to post here a lot about my fish, but I'm like a paranoid mother to them lmfao. My betta is a male crowntail, he's in a community 20g tank. I've been noticing lately he's been getting some blackish spots on his body and fins, I'm worried he could have some sort of disease? Illness? Or something could just be wrong. The tanks gets 30% water change once a week and I feed him Tropical Fishflakes, Freeze-dried blood worms and pellets and he eats all them fine. I have some pics for you guys to check out, have to upload them to tinypic because photobucket isn't working right for me sweatdrop . PICTURE 1In the first picture you can see some of the black dots on him near his analfin. There's only a few, but they weren't there before. PICTURE 2In the second picture you can see one of the black dots on his tailfin near the base. It's more of a darker spot, blackish in color. He has a second one but these are the only good pictures I could take. The black dots on his tailfin shine through to the other side too. I'm sort of worried, any ideas? Is it just coloration or is something wrong?
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:11 pm
If he's young, he could just still be developing color. Just to be sure, I would take a water sample to your closest chain pet store and have them test the water for you. Ask for exact numbers, though, dont just let them tell you "Your water is fine," or some crap like that. Some LFSs will test your water too.
In addition to testing the water, up the water changes to 50% weekly, and see how that helps. Black spotting could be ammonia poisoning, which needs to be taken care of right away.
Have then pet store test your tap water, too. Some cities have ammonia, nitrites and nitrates in the water already, so if thats the case, you'll need to get a water conditioner that gets rid of that before it goes into the tank, like Prime or Amquell+.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:37 pm
Akari_32 If he's young, he could just still be developing color. Just to be sure, I would take a water sample to your closest chain pet store and have them test the water for you. Ask for exact numbers, though, dont just let them tell you "Your water is fine," or some crap like that. Some LFSs will test your water too. In addition to testing the water, up the water changes to 50% weekly, and see how that helps. Black spotting could be ammonia poisoning, which needs to be taken care of right away. Have then pet store test your tap water, too. Some cities have ammonia, nitrites and nitrates in the water already, so if thats the case, you'll need to get a water conditioner that gets rid of that before it goes into the tank, like Prime or Amquell+. I don't know his exact age, but I know he's not young. What worries me the most though is his pelvic fins have black on the tips on some of his fins look ripped and I know none of the fish are nipping at him and none of the plants are hard enough to shred them. I'm just so worried about him gonk I'll take a water sample in and see what they think. Thanks.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 7:12 pm
bubble kush Akari_32 If he's young, he could just still be developing color. Just to be sure, I would take a water sample to your closest chain pet store and have them test the water for you. Ask for exact numbers, though, dont just let them tell you "Your water is fine," or some crap like that. Some LFSs will test your water too. In addition to testing the water, up the water changes to 50% weekly, and see how that helps. Black spotting could be ammonia poisoning, which needs to be taken care of right away. Have then pet store test your tap water, too. Some cities have ammonia, nitrites and nitrates in the water already, so if thats the case, you'll need to get a water conditioner that gets rid of that before it goes into the tank, like Prime or Amquell+. I don't know his exact age, but I know he's not young. What worries me the most though is his pelvic fins have black on the tips on some of his fins look ripped and I know none of the fish are nipping at him and none of the plants are hard enough to shred them. I'm just so worried about him gonk I'll take a water sample in and see what they think. Thanks. Then its something to do with ammonia or nitrites, I think. Deffinatly get your water tested and see what they say.
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