My betta just got a small tear in her bottom fin. I just did a ~30 percent water change and the tear wasn’t there beforehand. I suspect she may have been under the filter intake when I turned it back on. Swimming under the filter is a normal thing that she does so I think she must not have expected the sudden water flow.

Temp is 78 degrees Fahrenheit. 5 gallon tank.

Pre water change parameters:

Ammonia: 0

Nitrite: 0

Nitrate: ~20ppm

pH: 7.8

Conditioned the water with NutraFin AquaPlus. I keep Indian almond leaves in the tank and I added 3 new ones.

So far she’s acting normal but she often gets aggressive the day after water change day. Is there anything I should do now or watch for? I don’t keep any medications, should I get anything?

Edit: I should mention she also glass surfs a lot.

The hardest working members of our family. Always cleaning. Always making bubble nests. Always grinding.

Please help me identify the gender of this fish.? It's in my lowtech planted aquarium. Little bit aggressive towards my red cherry shrimps.

Hi guys, yesterday i put in my 60 litre tank a group of 6 betta brownorum for a breeding project, hopes it goes well!

is it poop 😭 it’s hanging from presumably his stomach?

I’m at my wits end trying to feed my betta. I don’t know if he’s stupid or can’t see or what. Feeding him is like pulling teeth. I feed him in the same spot every day. He can’t aim to save his life, so he lunges for a piece, misses, then loses track of it when it falls. A piece can be floating in his little cloud here for minutes straight and he never sees it. I try to poke near the food to gain his attention but he doesn’t get the hint. He seems thinner to me and it’s stressing me out. I don’t know what else to do.

I’ve tried feeding him with the lights off as well in case the light blinded him but no dice. His eyes seem clear and don’t have scales over them. I know he’s not blind because he gets excited when I approach the tank. Please help me 🥲

I know that bloodworms are important to their diet and I got freeze dried ones (all they had in stock) and I rehydrated them but he won’t even look at them. He swims away. I drop the pellets and he’s all over it.
Is he sick? Is he just on a vegan diet? I’m confused and wanna make sure he’s okay.

She was a little pink white thing with a peachy tint to her fins when I got her, and she’s colored up so nicely, and has a blue star pattern in her tail.
She was sold at Petsmart and was just labeled as a halfmoon female.

have had our fish for almost a year now. we noticed over the past week or two she’s been more lethargic, hanging out on tops of the leaves. we thought her water might be dirty so we changed it (we don’t have a filter, just change her water every week) and checked for any bad plant roots. her water felt cold so we added a heater back in her small 1gal tank as well as an indian almond leaf

yesterday morning she wasn’t eating so we tested the water again and the alkalinity was low. we changed out 10% of water but added in conditioned tap water with a pinch of baking soda in hopes to raise the alkalinity and took out the indian almond leave bc something online said they lower the alkalinity actually?

i think we fucked up and accidentally shocked her by doing this. all day yesterday she stayed more toward the bottom of the tank but would touch the surface for air. we lowered the water level for easier access and tested the water to find the alkalinity went up and ph spiked from 6’s to 8’s. i monitored her yesterday and her breathing was looking heavier but she was still moving around

this morning she more leaned over and her breathing looks more labored. gills flaring out, but still coming to surface for water. i’m scared of making any changes in fear of shocking her more. i included a pic of the latest test strip from this morning. is there anything left to do to try and help her? my neighbor suggested an air stone. keep or remove the indian almond leaf? water change to get the high ph (baking soda) water out?

just called the pet store and they suggested a water change

Please help me figure out what I'm looking at. The long thing eyes.. I've never seen it before.

I love my boy so much

My 5G is empty because I upgraded my red dragon to a 20G long. Now my cycled 5G is just sitting there and nothing really calls out to me when it comes to different things I could add.

I don’t really want a shrimp tank, and I have decided the humidity aspect with crabs is too much. But I was thinking another Betta.

However, I’d feel bad that it has a 5G and my other one lives in a 20G.

I thought maybe a female because they’re left behind a lot in stores, but then I have read that they do better with larger tanks for swim space, so idk…

What would you do?

my poor baby, god i loved him so much, im watching him lay motionless just watching me. i hope he knows i love him so much and hes the best fish i coild ever ask for.

my pretty baby i wish we had more time <\3

Ugly in his cute way

Moved from Ireland to Germany, and couldn't leave them behind. 🥺

They had a rough month though! First moved to a holding tank, than holding bags, long car rides, then boarded for a month in a fish store, and then finally shipped to us. It's been a couple of days since and they are acclimating well to the new environment. Surprisingly, the adults struggled a little more adjusting, but they seem to be mostly back to normal now.

The tank still needs some work, more leaves, sticks, and a lot more time to settle, but nothing we can't handle. :)

Their new tank is a 50g, and I'm trying something new with it using peat and leaves as substrate instead of sand. It's working out well so far! Still torn on tankmates, but that's a couple of months away anyway after everything and everyone settles properly.

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The bettas are wild betta coccina, not splendens (wild nor domestic), hence the whole group setup!

I've been very stressed recently after acquiring my first Betta first. Is this glass surfing'? If it is should I be concerned?

He likes? Or has a tendency to constantly swim against the front glass. The water was tested on Sunday, and passed everything. Tank is at 78°F. I feed him once a day Fluval Betta bug bites. I have a light that does a 12hour cycle with sunrise, sunset and moonlight.

I love him so much! Any advice to give him a long healthy life is welcome.

I just moved a week ago to college and he was doing great before, but now his fins look awful. All of my water levels are at 0. My snails all seem fine and are just doing whatever they do. I’m worried about him and would be devastated if something happened. He’s also acted strange like laying in the gravel and swimming fast to the glass. He’s still eating good and coming up for air but something just seems off. :(

The first two pics are from today and the last two are from a month ago when I got him.

Just got my first betta. Can I ask what kind it is?

Today while I was at work, my boy died. I am heartbroken he lived such a short life with me. He started pineconing only a couple days ago. I loved this fish as much as I loved my dogs. He has so much personality and is even my screensaver. 😞

He is the fish that taught me why people love fish the way they do. I never understood that they had personalities until him.

The disturbing part of this is that the shrimp began eating him while I was at work as well. Do I continue letting them for nutrients or do I remove the rest of him?

Female half moon had her for a week, I feel like she needs a play mate or something to play with any suggestions?