BettaMomma
Fish Aficionado
Had to go to PetSmart tonight to pick up some Maracide for Harvey....
of course had to check out the betta boys.
There was one who, when I looked in at him looked a tad bit odd, although his body was in good shape - but he was doing something a tad bit odd. He was resting on the bottom, but using his ventrals for arms - like he had them down on the bottom of the cup in an upside down V and was propping himself up on them. Taht seemed a little bit odd - i've not seen any bettas do that before, but he looked relatively healthy so I checked everyone else over. Found a pretty sick one, delivered him to the fishy cart and went to pick out my meds. I got them and was ready to go when I decided I needed to go back over and look at that fish again because SOMETHING just wasn't right about him.
Then I realized what it was - the middles of his eyes are flesh colored - almost white. Like if you look into one of them, you can see right through to the other side. Well, of course you CAN'T see thru, but that's what it looks sort of like... Sort of like when a dog or other animal is blind in one eye - and the middle part is really light colored. His are BOTH like this. We did some tests to see if he backed up when we put a finger in front of his face, we waved our hands, no reaction. We gently moved his cup and he came up from the bottom when we did that, and he went up to the top for air, but he stopped short and tried to take a breath too early, then continued on up to the top and got the breath, then went back down. IT was almost like he couldn't see the top of the water to know how far to go.
Is it possible that he could just be blind???
of course had to check out the betta boys.
There was one who, when I looked in at him looked a tad bit odd, although his body was in good shape - but he was doing something a tad bit odd. He was resting on the bottom, but using his ventrals for arms - like he had them down on the bottom of the cup in an upside down V and was propping himself up on them. Taht seemed a little bit odd - i've not seen any bettas do that before, but he looked relatively healthy so I checked everyone else over. Found a pretty sick one, delivered him to the fishy cart and went to pick out my meds. I got them and was ready to go when I decided I needed to go back over and look at that fish again because SOMETHING just wasn't right about him.
Then I realized what it was - the middles of his eyes are flesh colored - almost white. Like if you look into one of them, you can see right through to the other side. Well, of course you CAN'T see thru, but that's what it looks sort of like... Sort of like when a dog or other animal is blind in one eye - and the middle part is really light colored. His are BOTH like this. We did some tests to see if he backed up when we put a finger in front of his face, we waved our hands, no reaction. We gently moved his cup and he came up from the bottom when we did that, and he went up to the top for air, but he stopped short and tried to take a breath too early, then continued on up to the top and got the breath, then went back down. IT was almost like he couldn't see the top of the water to know how far to go.
Is it possible that he could just be blind???
I'm getting pricklies on the back of my neck.
I think it went out with some of the Tsunami babies to someone on the forum.
:cry:
