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His tail actually looks like it improved today. I thought I was just imagining it at first but my husband confirmed it. We will continue with the water testing, changing, and adding of salt and see is he continues to improve....

Well, we did Picasso's second water change tonight. The water is still hard and very alkaline, but the ph is coming down slowly. His fins still are not doing well. It has not gotten much worse, but I also don't see any improvement. We put a bit more aquarium salt in and am adding beneficial...

Well, we took out 3 gallons of old water and put three gallons of clean back in. Two of the gallons are our tap water (conditioned) and a gallon of bottled drinking water with a lower ph and hardness than out water. We also put aquarium salt in there and turned down the heater a bit--hopefully...

This would be the first time we've changed the water--we've only had him since this past Monday. We bought a water testing kit and the ammonia and nitrates seem to be at safe levels, however the hardness is way high, the ph is 8.4, and the alkalinity is high as well. I'm wondering is the poor...

Is it common for fin rot to come on that quickly? I like to watch him and I swear I didn't notice a tail issue at all the day before. Also, I read that the cause is dirty water. He has not even had that water for a full week. Should routine water changes be done more often than once a week...

I've never seen him bite his tail, but I did think of that because he seems pretty territorial. I have an exercise mirror that he flares like crazy at the first sight of--but it's only put in his tank a couple of minutes a day...

This bis what it looks like--he's still very lively--it was hard to get these pics.... This one is kind of blurry but you can see how it is really split... This one is more clear...

I'm a worried new Betta owner and have had my betta, Picasso, for about a week. He was fine when I got home from work today but after we went out and came home I noticed his tail fin looks like it was torn. I didn't see any tail pieces in the tank and he is in there alone. The plants are...