Hello,
I have been searching nonstop for anything regarding sick marine bettas and I just keep finding that they basically just “never get sick.”
mine has been doing great for months. Eats great (I feed him live feeder ghost shrimp) and is one of my favorite fish. He’s recently stopped eating (about 3-4 days now) and has been sitting in his cave - I wanted to leave him alone, thought maybe he just had a bigger meal than usual and wanted to relax. Today while doing a regular water change I noticed he has one extremely swollen eye… it’s not cloudy or seemingly injured. Just definitely a swollen eyeball. I’ve heard of popeye when I used to keep freshwater fish… but I also read that it’s basically unheard of for these fish to get that type of sickness.
60 gallon reef tank nitrates and ammonia basically zero (had a slight nitrate reading less than 0.1 so did water change), everything is as it had been while everyone is safe and healthy.
Other fish/living creatures in tank:
2 storm clownfish
Coral beauty
2 mandarin gobies
Diamond goby
2 cleaner shrimp
1 blood red fire shrimp
1 tailspot goby
1 harlequin shrimp with his chocolate chip starfish
1 bubble tip anemone
Frogspawn coral
Torch coral
Birds nest coral
Xenia
Hammer coral
how can I save this poor guy? Or will he heal on his own due to their hardiness?
I have been searching nonstop for anything regarding sick marine bettas and I just keep finding that they basically just “never get sick.”
mine has been doing great for months. Eats great (I feed him live feeder ghost shrimp) and is one of my favorite fish. He’s recently stopped eating (about 3-4 days now) and has been sitting in his cave - I wanted to leave him alone, thought maybe he just had a bigger meal than usual and wanted to relax. Today while doing a regular water change I noticed he has one extremely swollen eye… it’s not cloudy or seemingly injured. Just definitely a swollen eyeball. I’ve heard of popeye when I used to keep freshwater fish… but I also read that it’s basically unheard of for these fish to get that type of sickness.
60 gallon reef tank nitrates and ammonia basically zero (had a slight nitrate reading less than 0.1 so did water change), everything is as it had been while everyone is safe and healthy.
Other fish/living creatures in tank:
2 storm clownfish
Coral beauty
2 mandarin gobies
Diamond goby
2 cleaner shrimp
1 blood red fire shrimp
1 tailspot goby
1 harlequin shrimp with his chocolate chip starfish
1 bubble tip anemone
Frogspawn coral
Torch coral
Birds nest coral
Xenia
Hammer coral
how can I save this poor guy? Or will he heal on his own due to their hardiness?