gold dusting on Betta

[Gill]

Do Bettas Have gold Colorations.

1 of my Bettas - The large red has started to get a gold dusting to him.

it is anything to worry about.

He is eating fine and swimmimg and making bubble nests.

thanks for any info

 

[wetwetwet]

Gold dusting could indicate the protozoan disease velvet - though I'd have thought you'd have other symptoms to go with it aswell

HAVE A LOOK HERE or do a search on velvet for more info


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[Gill]

it does look like it is velvet, thought it might be.

will treat and see what happens.

hope it does not affect all the other bettas.

 

[bkk_group]

velvet sucks big time sometimes it can take weeks to develop into full blown and by then it's usually too late. a breeder gave me a good tip once when i was dealing with a case, get a bottle of "quick cure" made by aquarium products. it's cheap and is basically formalin and malachite green (cancer causing in humans, don't get any on you...) the good thing is it usually only takes about 3 to 4 days to cure. with velvet you want to attack quickly, thats why using "copper safe" is not as good, takes too long to cure. anyways, hope it's not velvet but from the sounds of it, it is.. oh, it will affect other bettas, isolate as soon as you can..

 

[Gill]

 

[iloveyou]

hard to tell from the pics ... lots of streaks on the glass...

 

[my_fallen_angel]

looks just like thats his colouring to me
maybe you should try and get a better picture??
how long have you had him for??

 

[Xellos69]

errr ... does anyone have pics of a betta with velvet?

my oldest betta has had "rusty" kind of fins for about 8 months now, and it hasn't spread to the other compartments in the tank.

but i do know that he didnt have that rusty stuff when I got him, which confuses me and makes me think he has velvet.

 

[bkk_group]

errr ... does anyone have pics of a betta with velvet?

my oldest betta has had "rusty" kind of fins for about 8 months now, and it hasn't spread to the other compartments in the tank.

but i do know that he didnt have that rusty stuff when I got him, which confuses me and makes me think he has velvet.

velvet will kill within weeks if not treated. sometimes bettas change colouration a bit as they get older so i wouldn't worry too much about it

 

[endparenthesis]

I don't know if the betta has velvet or not from the pictures, but from what I've read, when breeding bettas some colors tend to "cover" other colors in the offspring. Red is one of the more dominant colors, and it's possible your betta's parents were a red and another color (that goldish color maybe?)... and a lot of the offspring might have ended up red with that gold sort of iridescence underneath it.

I don't have the experience to back it up and I could be getting it completely wrong, but that's my limited understanding.

Being petstore bettas I'm sure there are all sorts of colors going on in there.