Bit of a weird question

[Allix]

I'll explain first ....

I have a Betta living in a 25gal community tank with mollies, guppies, platies and a couple of cories

Every now and again he looks abit worse for wear, he will be fine for a couple of months, then he will look abit worse for wear for a couple of weeks ... then he will be fine again

ATM his fins are torn and he has a cloudyness to one of his eyes (im sure its not cataracts and his pupil is still black but his eye has clouded over ) this is the first time one of his eyes has clouded over, in the past hes just had ripped fins and a lost a few scales off his face

He doesn't get nipped (from what ive seen and noticed since we've had him - 6 months roughly) and as a whole the community tank gets on just fine, really well in fact

I've got a 5 gal tank which is currently empty, but i am not going to put him in there as i lost 2 bettas to that tank and decided not to get anymore or move anything into there, i dont want to take the risk because both myself and my bf are quite attached to him now

I will post water stats when i do a test either today or tomorrow, im just curious to what needs to be done, can he get 'run down' like us humans occasionally do?

Ally

 

[Bloo]

Hi Ally. The cloudy eye indicates almost exactly just that : being run down (broadly speaking).
I have a molly that's very prone to a cloudy eye for the past three years now. He's otherwise very fit and healty and active, but whenever the water quality isn't 100%, he gets stressed and his eye clouds over. I generally do a water change every 7-10 days, but if I leave it longer than that, his eye starts clouding over
So check your water stats and make sure you do regular changes to keep your water quality up and that "should" fix the problem.