LauraFrog
Fish Gatherer
I've had a pair in a spawning setup for a while, still conditioning (separated) and the male wouldn't blow me a nest. Last night I had to admit defeat. While I was taking him out I noticed his sides covered in fungus. It's orangeish, thready and it's all over the base of his tail, and there's also a spot of it on his belly. It's not columnaris, it's not white and it's not on his mouth or back. I have no idea what it was, the water quality is perfect. I took him to school with me, a teacher who breeds bettas said that bettafix might help but she didn't hold out much hope for him either. The LFS had no idea what was wrong with him, they've never seen anything like it. I'm going to salt the water and heat it up and hope like hell it does something. I still think I'm going to lose him. It's progressed so rapidly I can't think that anything I do can kill it fast enough to save his life. I'm majorly bummed. This was the first VT I've had that was seriously quality, worth spawning. I'm really upset about it, he's only been with me two weeks and that's not near long enough to learn that not all humans are like the ******** who abused him at the LFS where I rescued him from.
But at the same time, my usual LFS has had a heap of bettas in. I went psycho.
There were so many I wanted. Get this - purple dalmatian VT, pink spadetail, steel grey and dark red butterfly VT, green dalmatian cellophane fin VT, green and red twobar crowntail. I had enough for two, but I decided I'd just get one because I'm low on room. I might go back for the VT BF if I can rack up some space. I couldn't resist buying one though.
So in a small country town in Australia, ordering 'assorted bettas' which means usually whatever isn't pretty enough to fob off as something else - tricolour (red, steel blue and white) cambodian crowntail, with marbling on body (very light) and blue splash on white dorsal. Four ray. I think somebody has spawned him before I got him because there's light fin damage, some of the rays have been nipped off. The LFS I go to puts male bettas in individual containers, not tanks with nippy tetras etc. I hope they didn't sell cause he's an egg eater or something. Funny though, if he'd been recently spawned I'd expect the injuries to be worse frankly. I'll put a photo of him up later.
But at the same time, my usual LFS has had a heap of bettas in. I went psycho.
There were so many I wanted. Get this - purple dalmatian VT, pink spadetail, steel grey and dark red butterfly VT, green dalmatian cellophane fin VT, green and red twobar crowntail. I had enough for two, but I decided I'd just get one because I'm low on room. I might go back for the VT BF if I can rack up some space. I couldn't resist buying one though. So in a small country town in Australia, ordering 'assorted bettas' which means usually whatever isn't pretty enough to fob off as something else - tricolour (red, steel blue and white) cambodian crowntail, with marbling on body (very light) and blue splash on white dorsal. Four ray. I think somebody has spawned him before I got him because there's light fin damage, some of the rays have been nipped off. The LFS I go to puts male bettas in individual containers, not tanks with nippy tetras etc. I hope they didn't sell cause he's an egg eater or something. Funny though, if he'd been recently spawned I'd expect the injuries to be worse frankly. I'll put a photo of him up later.
