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@Betsy thank you! Yeah, this is the first time I have experienced new fin growth on a Betta. I know that new growth is so fragile and Sakura is always zipping around and I’m sure the movement probably just caused the tears. Silly fish. He’s just so active and inquisitive!! He is always trying to jam himself under the PVC pipe tunnel I have in there or swim against the (baffled) flow of the internal filter to swim through the baffle itself like a little salmon swimming upstream! He rides his air stone bubbles up to the top and lets them shoot him over the heater, then he swims underneath it and goes back around again! 🤦‍♀️😂 I get tired just watching him. I’m hoping to have his tank ready in a week or two. I have a pre-seeded sponge filter (Co-Op’s, of course 😉) in my 14 gallon ready to go in and Seachem Stability so I can do an instant cycle (with frequent testing to be sure). I’ve got a beautiful piece of sand-blasted manzanita wood (nice and smooth to protect fins) finishing getting water-logged and a ton of plants on order at my LFS and online. Southeast Asian biotope plan for him!!!

My Emerald Corydoras and my Colombian Zebra Pleco LOVE their tubifex worms. I use the same kind—the frozen Hikari. It’s fun to watch the corys slurp them up. They go crazy for them! I haven’t seen any ill effects after feeding them to my little fin babies for a month or so now. I feed them sparingly, more like a “cheat meal”, if you will, once a week 🙃

@Mmiller2001 Thank you so much for your kind words and reassurance! I am still relatively new at fish keeping so I was nervous about what I was seeing. I feel so much better now. I lost my first betta to fin rot and I felt awful because I had no idea what I was doing. I owe Cory and this community a lot because if it weren’t for the forum and his content, I wouldn’t have learned what to do. I’m guessing since Sakura is such a playful betta and a halfmoon carrying around those “ball gown fins” that zipping around probably just caused some tearing of that new, delicate growth. I read that could easily happen and to just have patience and keep the water clean and it will heal. Phew!! I will keep up the Stress Guard and water changes until they do! 😊

So many beautiful fin babies!! What a wonderful idea for a post! Here’s my newest “water puppy” Sakura. He’s still in my quarantine tank while I finish getting his new 10 gallon home together! I’ve always loved Bettas, too, and Sakura is my second one. He loves to play in his air bubbles and he loves to eat his morning pellet or two from my finger!! He likes to pose for foods! “Look how pretty I am, Mom! You know you wanna’ give me an extra pellet!” 😆

Hello all! This is my first post as a new user so bare with me! I rescued this beautiful dumbo halfmoon betta about a month ago now. Sakura has been living in my 3.5 gallon quarantine tank. It has an internal filter (with a homemade plastic baffle with no sharp edges) with cycled coarse sponge media and Purigen (which was removed during meds of course), a heater and an air stone. No sharp decor. Silk plant. Bare bottom. Hiding spots and a hammock. I treated him with Paracleanse and then a round of Maracyn and Maracyn 2. He came through beautifully and healthy. It looks to me like he has a lot of new fin growth, particularly on his tail, but I’m not sure. It seems he’s ripped some of that new growth (if that’s what it is) overnight and I just wanted to make sure my assumption is correct that it is new growth that is just fragile and I don’t need to worry. 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0 nitrate (from 50% water changes every other day to keep the water super clean to help with the growth). Dechlorinating with Prime and adding StressGuard. Feeding Xtreme Betta pellets, Hikari Bio-Gold Betta Pellets or Vibra Bites soaked in VitaChem in the AM (only 1 or two pieces) and frozen daphnia or brine shrimp in the PM (dropper sized amount to not overfeed). Water temp 80 degrees. PH stays around 7. I know parameters are helpful. He is super active and inquisitive, no signs of lethargy or anything. Heck, he plays in the air stone bubbles all the time. It’s cute! Here are some pictures to help. The floating white dots are from his weekly dose of VitaChem into his water! As an aside, I have a 10 gallon, planted forever home I’m preparing for him post quarantine! So, new, fragile growth? Or something nefarious? All of his fins have that line where the solid old fin is and then clear-ish new? fin is growing?? Thanks all! Bec