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Help with Male Betta

3K views 11 replies 6 participants last post by  beabaserrrr 
#1 ·
My male betta is acting perfectly normal, all happy and himself. However his top fin has turned completely white. It does not look like it is decaying or anything, just turning white. It turned back to a sky blue and now it is totally white again. This all happened in over about a week or two.

Is this fin rot, stress?

I am just not sure if it can be related to water quality because I do weekly water changes, he is in a 5 gallon tank, and is housed alone.

Any ideas?
 
#6 ·
send in pictures please, and tell us everything else: what tank size? what are the fishes companions? go back to the sticky and post all this info, it'll help
 
#7 ·
Like I said in the first post =)

5 gallon tank and there are no tank buddies, I do a water change once a week, I feed him once a day, and I am not sure what else to tell you?

I am working on getting those pictures, where he is in my room does not have good lighting.
 
#9 ·
I can test for ammonia. There was some a few weeks ago from a snail dying. But this was not a problem them. Since then I have run tests and changed the water. (The ammonia came out as 0)

Here are some pictures of him, I woke up this morning and a bottom fin has a couple strips of white now too. When I shut the light off, it looks like the old color again. (If that makes sense?)





Sorry the pictures are so awful. I can not get a decent picture of him. I have no problems with my saltwater tank, though... so it must be because I don't know how to use my own camera.
 
#12 ·
I am not really sure why he would be so stressed though. The water quality is not the problem, and I just changed it again yesterday.

As for his gill, it has always been a red color. He has red throughout his fins too.

All of his fins turning white is bugging me though!
 
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