Hi everyone! I’m sorry this is a long post! 🤦🏼♀️ One week ago today, husband and I decided to get a betta fish (my first time ever owning a fish) and when I saw this little guy I just couldn’t leave him.
he looked so sad and had no color compared to the other bettas there. *See the first picture for reference. He is a halfmoon plakat male that we named Marvin. Once we brought him home and introduced him to his tank he acted like a new fish! He has been eating very well and loves swimming up to us as we walk by. Since it’s my first time owning a betta fish, I want to make sure I’ve been educating myself on the care he needs (Proper tank, water parameters, temperature, etc.) so I have been doing a lot of researching on bettas and have been constantly concerned about how he has looked since the day we got him. He was clamping his fins, had no color/was very dark or dusky and I noticed he had what looked like either shedding or missing scales on his left side. Throughout the last few days he has started to look 100x better! However, you can still see the spots where the scales look different and they’re more noticeable now that his color has started to return. They are not pineconing and I haven’t noticed any cotton-like texture. It’s hard to get a good look at them so I can’t really tell if it’s a cut but I included the best picture I have of it. Can someone please offer some advice on what this may be and whether or not I’m just being paranoid? I did purchase salt to give him a salt bath but don’t want to disrupt him getting comfortable in his new home if I don’t have to. Thank you!
