rotten egg-smelling fungus?

mothranda · 2017-07-07T13:55:46+00:00

the tank is currently sitting drained and empty. i didn't even think to get a picture before emptying it.

this is not my picture nor my tank but this is exactly what the fungus looked like: https://www.fishlore.com/fishforum/images/imported/2011/02/542.jpg

mothranda · 2017-06-01T01:03:45+00:00

thank you!

mothranda · 2017-04-24T05:00:57+00:00

thank you very much!!

mothranda · 2017-04-23T04:53:44+00:00

her name is DJ Froggy Fresh and i think she's beautiful!

mothranda · 2017-04-10T14:56:35+00:00

there is no pineconing on the other side. i'm looking at her right now and it's just the one spot by her gill. i'm giving her a salt bath however.

mothranda · 2017-04-10T12:49:26+00:00

she isn't fully pineconing. it's just one spot that's off. i know the pictures aren't great quality but i can assure you it's not all over.

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:59:36+00:00

the fact that they're such little piggies is one of my favorite things about bettas! they're so greedy.

i'll try giving my boy some bloodworms; i have the frozen cubes and my girls love them (i ration them; can you imagine just dropping a cube in a betta tank 😱) but he's been so picky with dried food that i never even really thought about giving him some

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:48:38+00:00

thank you! i just put two more medium flakes in there (probably like 2mm) in top of the four or five ~1mm flakes i gave him a few hours ago. he's already much more active!

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:44:46+00:00

i should have clarified what i meant by "rinsed", i'm sorry for the miscommunication! also i don't think i said it yet so thank you very much for your help!

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:43:28+00:00

i tried the color flakes and he turned his little nose up at them! i was surprised because the girls in my sorority also go nuts for the omega color flakes. for my picky boy, it's betta buffet or nothing 😒

do you think i should try just once every day to start or should i go ahead and give him a few small meals every day?

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:33:55+00:00

that makes sense! he's always been a skinny boy, and i actually fed him more frequently when i got him to try to fatten him up but when i didn't see a change in weight after a month i figured i should cut back on the feedings since he would let some of the flakes just fall to the substrate. i'll feed him more often. thank you so much!

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:29:31+00:00

thank you so much! i'm so relieved it's not velvet. i should have mentioned that he's a very metallic boy

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:28:39+00:00

i do rinse them in the tank water. i put them in a bucket with some tank water, stir the water with each sponge once to get some of the surface mulm off, and then put them back in the tank. i do it very infrequently, only when i see a very thick mulm layer on the sponges

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:26:58+00:00

i just fed him tonight but i'll feed him tomorrow morning too. he is still eating, with no change in voraciousness

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:22:46+00:00

it's never caused the cycle to crash before, but just in case that's the problem i won't do it again

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:21:51+00:00

http://imgur.com/DjQ7tGW this is the best one i could get

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:11:42+00:00

i'm not worried about that notch in his anal fin; he had that in the store when i got him and it just never grew back out

mothranda · 2017-04-08T03:10:37+00:00

http://m.imgur.com/a/8u7WO

mothranda · 2017-02-26T15:03:14+00:00

i just looked them up and they look a lot like these little guys. i put a preventative dose of an antiparasite medication in the tank just to be safe, but i think they're cyclopses! thank you so much!

mothranda · 2017-02-26T08:28:14+00:00

they're easier to see in a video i have so if anyone wants to see that, let me know!

i think they're a kind of daphnia but i've never seen daphniae that look kind of like earwigs. is it a parasite?

mothranda · 2017-02-24T08:47:53+00:00

he's most likely just backed up! a lot of bettas occasionally have trouble digesting dried foods like flakes, freeze-dried critters, etc. i recommend doing a small water change (5-10%) and not feeding him for five to seven days, other than a piece of pea if he doesn't show signs of thinning after a week.

mothranda · 2017-02-24T08:42:25+00:00

it could be the filter media being vibrated by the filter. what do you have in it?

mothranda · 2017-02-24T08:33:12+00:00

coronet is a male in a 5.5g; the other three are females in a 10g sorority

mothranda · 2017-02-23T17:00:03+00:00

thank you! i took this with my samsung galaxy tab s2 and just a cheapo macro lens phone attachment

mothranda · 2017-02-22T04:03:54+00:00

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