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What do i so to stop the scales from growing?  is it hurting his eyes?!  will he go blind!?

Yeah he's a dragon scale! amonia is good and Ph level is fine he seems really healthy.  

My betta  fish's eyes have cloudy spots on his eyes.  usually its  clear i think.  He's white with metallic blue, and the cloudy spots on his eyes are blueish metallic.  The spots don't cover his entire eyes, just some.  What is this? 

Okay thnx.  As for the tetra, i think it did lay eggs.  

  The 10 gal with tetras is cycled now lol. I had a problem with that earlier, but not its nitro cycled. The betta tank is 2.5 gal. I want to put him in the 10 gal, but I took him out about 1-2 months ago, due to it not being cycled. My dad said it was laying eggs.  the tetra is swimming normal...

Hey guys, my first question is about my betta.  He seems to leave these huge balls of poop. lol I'm worried it may up the ammonia level if it lays there to long.  Will it become a problem? if so, how do i clean it w/o having to empty the entire tank out.   My second question is about a tetra. I...

wow!! 3 pellets a day!!?? man u betta must be puny! lol ive been feeding him 5-6 pellets a day.  must be dangerous.  i will try to get a pic.  

Hey guys, not sure if my betta is sick or just getting fat! I don't think he's got dropsy because his scales arent puffed out.  He just seems kinda chubby.  He's swimming around a lot really aggressively like always.     I feed him around 3 and sometimes 4 pellets 2 times a day.  is this too...

    yeah im doing about 20-50% wc each day, i think i got fin rot under control, im just worried about him not eating anything but worms.

    He's done with ich.  Now just fin rot from some odd reason, or it just seems to be a little case of torn fins.  But he seems very happy.  he's being a suborn fish.  He's not eating anything but worms now.  Thanks for the info, i guess ill just starve his butt until he eats pellets again lol 

  I cured the itch maybe 4-7 days ago.  He's not bloated at all.  He actually got skinnier cuz he's not eating anything but worms.  But im afraid if i just feed him worms he'll be unhealthy.  thats how my last fish died.  he stopped eating pellets for w/e reason (he wasnt sick at all) and he...

  no i never thought of that. the thing is though is that he used to eat pellets out of the container like a piggy.  I just realized he will eat worms.  My last betta would only eat worms and he got bladder infection from it i think.  (or maybe I over fed him).     I did add salt to the tank and...

Hey guys, My fish just got over ich.  I changed the water 100%, and i also added 1 teaspoon of salt for good health of the fish (betta).  The betta also has a torn fin, he had some holes while he had ich, idk if it is fin rot or not,but im being told its not.  his fins arnt getting anyworse, in...

omg i poured new water in the tank durring the water change and it tore his tail. .  . there's pieces of his fin floating :'c this is terrible!

yes I have been doing the medication for the betta.  I'm about to just do salt, could I maybe overdose the betta?  I use the medication according to directions.  Salt and temp in my 10 gal worked all under a week.  but the tetras are now having problems with fin rot.  I don't belive that my...

  guys i have been!! i have been changing the water daily at 50%. I was using medicine on the betta and its been 3-4 days and nothing has happened, he always has a spot or two on him.  Now he was three tiny holes on his tail.  

Hey so I messed up with not knowing to cycle a tank (10 gal) and to let my new fish (tetras) sit before I added everything in the tank.   I had a betta in there as well.   Because I didnt cycle it there was high ammonia, and also the tetras were carrying ich apparently.  So all the tetras and...

Im treating my fish with the salt and heat method in a freshwater tank.  will the salt kill my plants?

    TY so much!  yeha i read medicine way kills off some of the good bacteria.  I got some "salt" im not 1000% if this is the right kind of salt?  its Tetra's marine salt.  Its for salt water fish, is this the right kind of salt? 

okay thnx man.   I pulled my betta out of the tank cause he didnt have itch. But yeah im gunna pull those rocks out and then add medication for my surviving tetras. Hopefully in a week the ich will be gone and the water will be amonia free.   I just read that when you are trying to medicate...

Guys my betta doesnt seem to have Ich.  He's white so its hard to tell, but i dont see any lumps or dust like stuff.  I pulled him out he's in his cup he came in.  One person told me to put salt in, another person told me to not put salt in, but just medicine.  What am i doing here?  Do i keep...

  is the carbon the black rocks in the white stuff?

I was googling around and was told that salt wont really kill off itch.  it just adds a thicker coat to the freshwater fish.  but could do damage to their insides. : c so just medicine?   Edit: pls quick recap before I leave work (ive been at work this whole time I was posting loll) So no...

  So don't add any medicine?  just 1/2 teaspoon for every gallon?  so for me its 5 teaspoons.  Are you guys sure about this? 

Hey I posted this in the beginner forum, but I thought addressing the ich problem here would be okay too since the other post was multiple problems.    So yeah new tank, not cycled, fish dying cuz ammonia. whats left is 1 betta, 4 tetras.    Should I keep my betta in?  take him out? Idk if he...

  Thnx again man.  If my betta doesn't have ich, should I keep him in there anyways?   So basically im treating the tank for ammonia and itch @____@ this is really tough!   When I am doing water changes for the ammonia do u think it will weaken the effect of the medicine?  Will it hurt the live...

  The filter came with the 10 gal. The filter is white with the black rocks in it.  And in the other slot in the filter there is this black sheet with holes in it. is that the floss? Should I take it out?   Also after I cure the tetras from ich what do I do to get the medication out of the...

Thanks guys, okay so if I separate my betta and put him in his old 2.5, the filter won't have the bacteria in it. Is this okay for the betta?  Probably is, but what about the tetra?  wont the same issue happen again in the 2.5 gal?   So I add the medicine to the 10 gal, and continue to cycle it...

This probably isn't the first time soething like this has been posted here. Basically, I got a 10  gallon tank and I had a male betta. I read that you can put them with small school of tetras.   Basically I got the tank, put gravel in it and some plants... and then dumped all the fish in there...