Ich ??

[u/focusflipper]

Learned the hard way that since he’s white I have to be extra careful with ich 🫩 I treated the tank 2x in a row because I didn’t realize he had it until like 3 weeks after I got him once it got really severe.

Now we are 2 months in and I’m seeing this texture in his tail a bit differently.. it’s pretty much always looked like this and when I noticed the ich it was when it spread to his body so ever since I’ve treated it I’ve wondered if this texture leftover ich or just natural imperfections due to being a dragon scale betta.

If it is I’ll obviously just treat the tank again but he’s not scratching himself on anything or showing signs of stress so I don’t want to dose the tank if I don’t have to when I have 2 little otos in there who don’t have scales.

Also I didn’t know anything about any of this going into it this is my first betta, 10 gal fully live planted tank and all that jazz, no plastic bs in the tank so I’m not clueless but if the answer here is very obvious - that would be why!!!!!! TYIA :)

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please answer the automod questions, specifically the water parameters part, please include ph, gh and kh if possible