Martynguk2002
New Member
Hello,
I've had my betta for about a week now and has always been active and has been eating well.
I got home from work late last night around half 1 in the morning had a quick check on him and he was sitting on the bottom of the tank and was looking very pale, being worried i went on to the chat here and someone said that losing colour can be due to stress, Could it have been me suddenly putting the lights on so late that stressed him out?
After about half an hour or so he became more like his normal self swimming near the top and got some colour back, now this morning he is absolutly fine.
He's in a 16G tank with a couple of zebra danio (need to get a few more), a brittlenose catfish, 2 chinese algae eaters (need to think about returning them if they get abusive) and a tetra. they all get on very well.
The water is ok as far as ammonia (0) and Nitrite (0) go but the Nitrates are a bit high (between 25mg/l and 50 mg/l) this is beacuse the tap water here is right up towards 75 mg/l the live plants have helped to reduce this alot.
Thanks
Martyn...
I've had my betta for about a week now and has always been active and has been eating well.
I got home from work late last night around half 1 in the morning had a quick check on him and he was sitting on the bottom of the tank and was looking very pale, being worried i went on to the chat here and someone said that losing colour can be due to stress, Could it have been me suddenly putting the lights on so late that stressed him out?
After about half an hour or so he became more like his normal self swimming near the top and got some colour back, now this morning he is absolutly fine.
He's in a 16G tank with a couple of zebra danio (need to get a few more), a brittlenose catfish, 2 chinese algae eaters (need to think about returning them if they get abusive) and a tetra. they all get on very well.
The water is ok as far as ammonia (0) and Nitrite (0) go but the Nitrates are a bit high (between 25mg/l and 50 mg/l) this is beacuse the tap water here is right up towards 75 mg/l the live plants have helped to reduce this alot.
Thanks
Martyn...
