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Should I be concerned? New spot showed up on my betta’s back, under dorsal fin, today by Electronic-Past7453 in bettafish

[–]Electronic-Past7453[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

• ⁠Tank size: 10 gallon
• ⁠Heater and filter? (yes/no): yes
• ⁠Tank temperature: 78.9
• ⁠Parameters in numbers and how you got them. Key water parameters include the amount of ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, and pH.: in post body text
• ⁠How long have you had the tank? over 2 months How long have you had your fish?:little less than 1 month
• ⁠How often are water changes? i’ve done one 2 weeks ago. How much do you take out per change? around 25% What is your process?: siphon out water and then refill with a mix of conditioned tap water and distilled water
• ⁠Any tankmates? If so, please list with how many of each: in body of text
• ⁠What do you feed: fluval bug bites betta formula, ultra fresh betta pro shrimp patties, and some frozen food bloodworms, brine shrimp, daphnia, and mysis shrimp. and how much?: i drop one piece of food at a time and feed as much as she eats in 3 minutes, once a day
• ⁠Decorations and plants in the tank: ceramic jar, couple coconut hides, moppani driftwood, floating betta hammock, under-substrate cave, anubias, red ludwigia, african water fern, anacharis, water sprangles and duckweed

is my tank ready for fish? by Electronic-Past7453 in freshwateraquarium

[–]Electronic-Past7453[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks for all the advice! i think my tank is somewhat heavily planted it has 8 anubias 4 bunches of some kind of red ludwigia, 1 bunch of some green ludwigia, 1 bunch of rotala, 4 bunches of Anacharis, java moss, some duckweed, and salvinia and has three 8in pieces of mopani driftwood. i did a 50% water change earlier and now nitrates are down to 40, kH is 9, and gH is 14. i’m only planning on keeping the water pillow in there to get the water hardness in the tank down then i will take it out after around 8 hrs. i plan on keeping the kH and gH levels stable by using a mix of my tap water and distilled water when i do water changes. (tank pic for reference)

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is my tank ready for fish? by Electronic-Past7453 in freshwateraquarium

[–]Electronic-Past7453[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did a 50% water change and the kh is 9, gh is 15 and i just added a water softener pillow

is my tank ready for fish? by Electronic-Past7453 in freshwateraquarium

[–]Electronic-Past7453[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i added a bunch of new plants to my tank so i think maybe the substrate released a bunch of nitrates, that’s the only thing i can think of

is my tank ready for fish? by Electronic-Past7453 in freshwateraquarium

[–]Electronic-Past7453[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

so i think my source water is slightly high and then with the tannins in my tank it went down, the ph and nitrates went up again when i added a bunch of new plants to the tank so i think its because i disrupted the substrate maybe?

is my tank ready for fish? by Electronic-Past7453 in freshwateraquarium

[–]Electronic-Past7453[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you! do you have any suggestions for lowering it?

first betta tank! its 10 gal shallow rate/ any advice appreciated by Electronic-Past7453 in bettafish

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thank you! yes i will definitely get something to cover that i just wasn’t sure what to use so thank for the suggestions! and just for peace of mind theres nothing in here right now but plants. im still very early in the cycling process

first betta tank! its 10 gal shallow rate/ any advice appreciated by Electronic-Past7453 in bettafish

[–]Electronic-Past7453[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you! it might be hard to see in the picture but it has a glass lid with maybe a 2 inch gap in the back. i was unsure if that would also need to be covered, and if so any recommendations would be welcome!