biting

I have a new betta who's a little more aggressive than my old one. When I do a water test strip he always tries to nip at me. Today I did my first water change with a gravel vac (I've only had him for a week) and he kept coming at me. If he ends up getting me will it hurt? It kind of kept me...

Hey, I hope everyone is having a good day! I am beginning to get worried because it seems like my betta’s fins are deteriorating. I can’t feel if they are being bitten, if they are getting teared, or if it’s fin rot. Can anyone give input on this?? I am worried about my little friend. :( Also...

Hello fellow betta lovers! I have fin issues and am completely stumped as to what I can do the help my fish. My tank is a 20 long, divided into three parts. Both end sections have corner filters with lite air flow and the center has a sponge filter. All sections are planted. The center section...

Hi all, I have had my betta (a beautiful red/blue veil tail) for 6 months, however in the past 3 months or so he seems to be in a permanent cycle of destruction! Initially he was in a 10L tank, and one day I came home and practically all his tail was gone! I looked closely and noted it was...

Pebbles has acquired some long rips in his fins :( I do not believe it is fun rot and he seems to be active and eating well. After some research, I'm thinking it's either tail biting or mechanical rips from his aquarium plant, but I would like a second opinion. In the mean time I am treating...

My little boy, Lafayette, is a tail biter and it's taken me a very long time to come to this conclusion. <---the beginning <---the beginning of the biting The moment I knew his issue was something beyond the realm of fin rot or snagging was when I was on vacation and left him in the care of...

My little boy, Lafayette, is a tail biter and it's taken me a very long time to come to this conclusion. The moment I knew his issue was something beyond the realm of fin rot or snagging was when I was on vacation and left him in the care of my best friend. Around the time I left for...

Hi guys, My betta Bubbly is biting his fin... At first I thought that it was fin rot, but, apparently not. When I thought it was fin rot I used AQ salt, but once I found out he was biting his fin, I stopped the AQ salt treatment and did a 50% water change. Do you guise know any solutions to...

Okay, so I have posted here before about my guy's issues with his tail, and it just seems to be getting worse. :( This was him the first day I brought him home: This was him a couple of weeks after coming home (when I first made a post): Immediately after that post, I removed all the in...

I have a betta in a 2.5 gallon tank. A few weeks ago, I put him in a quarantine tank for fin biting/fin rot. The combination of aquarium salt and Stress Coat helped to begin to cure it. However, I just looked in his tank earlier and his fins are worse than before. It's been about a week that...

So this is my very first betta that I have ever had to take care of,so I'm unsure of any illness or habbits of a betta fish.My fish is male and I've had him for 7 months,I bought him from Petco.He still is hyper and flits about in his tank,so his fins don't seem to bother him.His tank sits in...

Hi, Im really stressed out about my betta. Ive had him for about 1.5 months and he hasnt had any issues. Then, just today i noticed that his tail fin was shreaded. Its pretty bad and it happened really fast. What should I do? Im leaving in 2 days and will be gone for 5 days. I cant take him with...

Hello. I have a half moon (double tail?) with some deterioration to his fin. I was treating for fin rot but after researching more I'm not so sure what it is. Please help. Housing What size is your tank? 1 gal (med tank) What temperature is your tank? 78 Does your tank have a filter? Main tank...

Recently have received this Betta that was in a tank with 3 goldfish. I have the Betta in a 30 gal tank with 5 neon tetras and 5 black tetras that been established for about 5 weeks. The fish do not fight, flare, nip, or anything. The tank has one live plant which is an anubias on some...

I came home today to find Beethoven, one of my beautiful males, with chewed up dorsal fins. This really surprised me because I only just recently purchased him from a nearby pet store about 3 days ago. Ever since then he's been doing fine in his heated (79* C) 1 gallon bowl. ( Yes, a bowl. I'd...

Hey guys, so my 2 half-moons, Merry and Pippin, have got some seriously torn up fins. I don't know whats going on. At first, I thought it was my ghost shrimp because I actually saw one come up and tear at Merrys tail, but I have since removed the shrimp, but Merry's fins have got like 50 times...

So over the past 2 weeks, I have noticed Lucifer's fins getting worse, and I don't know if it's him biting or if it's fin rot. It all started about 3 weeks after I got him, but it seemed to stop and flared up again a last week. I've only had him a little over 2 months. I'm leaning more towards...

I have 2 zebra danios and 1 male betta in my tank, and I just noticed that one of my zebra danios has had his fin bitten A LOT. My betta has fin rot, which he has had since the fish store, is it possible he could have passed it on one of my danios? Is it fin rot? I have a 7.5 litre tank, which I...

A few days ago, I noticed that there was something wrong with my little fish's tail-- it was all tattered and nearly half of the dorsal fin was torn or gone! What a drag-- and then today I checked on him again and parts of his tail were gone too-- This looks like fin biting-- there is nothing at...

Hi there; Silus is a halfmoon, and as seen in my picture he's got a clear tail. This week his 10g permanent tank started leaking and I had to move him to a 5 gallon sterillite container (it was rinsed out, and I've had him in there before when cycling water. He also likes that it's dull plastic...