rben675

If you have the ability, set up a camera or a phone and take a video of the tank. If you can do a timelapse that'll be even better. Take it for a few hours or longer of the tank. Then just watch the video. You'll see if he's eating from the bottom and get a sense of just how much he's moving. I did this with my betta because whenever I saw him, he was always in the same spot in his 10 gallon and I wondered how much of the tank he actually uses. Spoiler alert: I did a 8-10 hour timelapse, he uses the whole damn thing and just kept moving to the same spot when I enter the room! Best of luck with your betta.

I'll give maracyn a shot. I'm still a little nervous about using aquarium salt and would have to set up another tank to protect my plants.

Thanks. I didn't know about this or viral infections with fish. A lot of other places I have posted just had no answers or said "well bettas usually get this". Luckily I don't have any other fish to possibly infect, just an invert tank, and right now the little guy is eating well and otherwise happy.

Here's some new pics and of his other side.

I feel like he may have always had the one on top but it's within the last 2-3 weeks it feels like it gets bigger. I feel like it shrinks when I do a water change (which I just completed my weekly, so I can watch and see if this is right) but I can't remember when the other two bumps on his sides appeared. They're much newer. I remember one at first just looked like an off colored scale then the bump formed.

I believe my betta always had some sort of white lump/bump but the look of it has changed. It's almost as if it got slightly bigger and move forward towards his head. Over time, another white bump appeared on each side of his body. Does anybody know what it is and what I should do? It doesn't look cottony like examples I've seen of fungal growth. I've thought of using aquarium salt and see if it helps but not sure if its needed and worried if it'll hurt my plants or snail. He's also shows no sign of illness or lethargy and is eating really well. Gets a mix of pellets, bug bites, freeze dried daphnia/mysis and bloodworms. He's in a 10 gallon with a sponge filter and a heater set to about 78F with only a nerite snail, some RRF, water lettuce, aponogeton, banana plant, java moss, java fern and anubias. I did have some silk plants in there but I have since removed as I got more live plants and feared maybe he got hurt rubbing up against the plastic. The only other thing that has been happening is I had a lot of RRF melt so been sucking those out from time to time along with my weekly 20-30% water changes. Water Parameters: pH 6.5 Nitrates 0 Nitrite 0 Ammonia - 0