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  1. nabokovfan87
    Sometimes stressed fish just need time. Give the fish a few days to adjust, try feeding every other day, but don't be discouraged if the food isn't eaten right away. Is the Betta bloated at all? The above advice is really good, give it time and see how things go. let us know and best of luck.
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    Hardscape, rocks and wood, line of sight breaks. Those things would help in addition to plants and other things. Keep the tank dark and lights out, low stress on the fish.
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    Yep! My first tank I used national geographic gravel in black. Works fine. I'd recommend using natural gravel if you can find it. Whatever small particle size you can find that works and is made up of tumbled rock. Usually you can find some stuff in the garden section if you don't have a local store. Just make sure it's not rocks with lots of white marbling as that is calcium and would change your water parameters. River rocks, grey gravel, etc. All that stuff works. If you go the aquarium route (meaning branded for aquariums) then I'd recommend something natural looking over the painted rock stuff.
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    As far as the two fish, those usually don't go together. Temperature and temperament are the two main reasons why. For the time being you can use tubs, sterilite containers are generally considered safe and can be used for QT as well as holding. I'd try to get a few 10G or larger tubs for now and try to set those up with one fish in each. Let's say you get a 20L tank, you can use a divider and keep them both in the same tank. A Betta is going to want ~80 degrees while a gourami is going to want a slightly lower temperature. Someone with a bit more experience there can chime in. To your point, having plants would help and having something easy to make a jungle style aquascape would help as well. I'd try something like valisnaria or maybe something lower demand (but slower growing) like anubias and/or java Fern. Depending what else is in the tank moss can work too if you attach it to rocks and wood. Best place to start might be the aquarium coop care guide videos and blog articles.
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    Unfortunately.... I understand this 😞
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    Old Tank Syndrome? Things just increasing over time?
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    Could be. I see what looks like a serpae or black skirt tetra too. Can you take more photos at night with only the tank light on?
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    Top right one looks a little black to me. Just a heads up if you want to move it to the cull tank. You're going to end up with some nice black and a nice blue line. So many of each type dropping for you.
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    There's even eggs there. 😱
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    A few caveats, because yeah.... this is bba you're looking at. Placement is pretty standard for red algae types and you're going to see it mostly on dying leaves. A. How much water, how often is it changed? B. You're dosing in 2 pumps per day of EG. I would ask how long you've been running that dose for these plants. You mention it's a new setup, but is this dose been in use in the prior tank and adjusted up based on the new tank volume? C. Can you get a phosphate test kit? D. For your CO2 setup, how long before the lights come on is the CO2 running? How do you transition the CO2 off and the lights off, same time? E. What is your filtration and circulation for the co2, can you record a video of the CO2 being diffused and show the path of circulation for the bubbles? F. 2 hours after the CO2 is on, can you run a test of KH+PH? We can calculate the CO2 ppm. Repeat this same test 2 hours after lights out. @Seattle_Aquarist can you help us out here with deficiencies. The color on this monitor isn't great, but I see some deep veining on a few leaves, I do see pearling on the left, and some washed out leaves (yellowing). I would think adding in some iron is a good idea. @Greg H If you can, please post full testing values, especially PH, KH, GH, etc.
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    Perfectly safe with plants. Just like maracyn in terms of "beware of". It's just for gram negative as opposed to gram positive bacteria.
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    no.
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    In future, fish is trying to get to the surface to relieve pressure internally. If you have a hang on breeder box or something that you can set towards the surface where the flow isn't too crazy it might give them the ability to rest and recover. I can't say it would've helped here, but just a note. For sorry for your loss. Never easy.
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    Flashing is a sign of something bothering the fish, multiple instances could be something on the skin. You'd want to keep an eye for a wound, flashing can lead to damage and secondary infections. Wouldn't hurt to turn on UV for a few hours a day. Just keep in mind not to use it when running meds. Carbon, not sure which to recommend. I heard marineland is "good" but to me it looks like generic stuff similar to others. Seachem has little tumbled beads that should work slightly more effectively. I tend to prefer something that is a pellet or larger size.
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    That's awesome, they are doing well now! @Chick-In-Of-TheSea
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    Video added @Birdsnstuff
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    These videos are right after one another. I'd say the clicking is 2-3x per hour at this point for about this length of time. I did verify there was NO AIR prior to attempting to record this again, trying to rule that out as a cause. After my WC I went in and did the same thing as shown in the second video to purge the air. For whatever reason when I went to verify it was empty, it's full of air again. Not sure what is causing the air to build up or if rotating the orientation could help at all. Maybe an air release hole at the top or something? Convection currents causing air to build up? Sound recorded, especially the ending, it's very clear this is the heater. Since I've been awake and recorded this I've heard it 4x already. I've been up for just over an hour. Here is the air test. Purging the air has not caused the noise to stop either. Same duration and loudness.
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    It's the ridiculously fine "white sand" from caribsea. Not sure why they sell stuff this fine apart from for salt where the waters a bit heavier. Anyways, checked on him this morning and everything was fine. Just the hint of white in the eye. Fed the fish, now he's covered in sand again. I definitely feel bad for this guy.
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    Something that uses rocks to breed. Hillstreams?
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    It reacts to shadows and me. Not vibration. But sitting there waving and casting a shadow with my hand.
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    It looks like the pattern name on your Betta is a pink orchid Betta. I don't know if that helps or anything, might just be the name one store uses to class these. It could give you something to look at and try to find a similar looking fish to see what does and doesn't look quite right. As an example: The only thing I see as far as signs of an issue on the fish is this section here in a few spots. To clarify, I don't think this is abnormal, the fins on these fish are ridiculously long and can easily get damaged just by swimming. Friction or something along the substrate could cause this... The question marks above indicating areas where potentially is what you're saying are the obvious signs of inflammation? I just wanted to clarify we are talking about the same segments. The parts circled in blue could be indicative of fin rot issues or fins regenerating/healing. Hopefully others can chime in here and we can get this sorted out as far as best advice for the fish and your situation. Kanaplex + salt is pretty mild. I would opt to do another treatment of that. Adding in cattapa leaves or botanicals as well would be a good idea.
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    While checking on the fish tonight and attempting to record a video of the heater noises I was sitting and watching the little corydoras in the tank and it had just this weird discoloration. The tank was on weird colored lighting because it was late and so I tried to focus in. It looks like nothing more than the usual sand stuck to the body of the fish. The fish was flashing, obviously annoyed by the sand and it's just so fine that it keeps bugging the fish. Because it's a sponge filtered tank it does have a lot of debris and there isn't a massive amount of circulation to push off debris and the fine layer of sand that is there. You can see remnants of food and stuff on the surface, there's just stuff there and the sponge doesn't pull it from the surface despite having "decent enough" airflow. It's a pump rated for a 30G aquarium I believe on a 10G sponge. Anyways. I tried using a turkey baster and gently blowing air over the fish, didn't work too well. Then I thought about trying to use my hand and wave water over the fish or something. Using a net to gently lift the fish out of the water and back in to disturb the sand. Maybe that would irritate the fish worse, I just don't know. I thought about trying to get a very soft brush, again, not sure if it would work and that definitely seems like it would stress the fish. I want to see if this is Ich (or the other one) or sand. My thinking that if it's just sand, it would remove easily from the fish. Hopefully. Then I kept thinking about how one day it's there, the next it isn't.... Yeah, you know, like ich. I really, really don't think it's ich. I'd like to find a happy medium to try to help reduce stress and flashing on the fish. Any ideas? Some of the fuzziness is dirty glass. I'll grab a better photo tomorrow.
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    why? Noting, move #2. Acclimation #3 Alright.... So my untrained eye, the betta is naturally pink / red and simply colored up given new diet and environment? The red "streaks" you can see on the original photo and the fish itself is very pale in color. I can't say that the betta is supposed to be white, or really tell where the red streaks, wounds, or blotches really are. I do see a bit of the frayed edge on the fin, location tells me it's probably nothing more than gravity and the fin hitting the substrate and a little bit of damage being caused. The thing that actually concerns me here is the behavior of the fish indicated, lack of eating, lethargy. -What is the filtration, is it too strong for this fish, causing lethargy? -What is the diet of this fish, is it krill based which would bump up the red coloration pretty heavily? In terms of what to do.... Change water, keep things stable, monitor, adjust flow with a baffle output if required, and make sure the fish is eating regularly. I would keep things consistent right now. I would focus on clean water right now. I would feed something like frozen food or flakes with tongs right now if the fish is able to eat from tongs without being afraid.
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    I found this... https://q-bankplants.eu/lookalikes/Alternanthera/Alternanthera.HTML
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    LOL. Can confirm the pups like it when food falls on the floor and there's no chance you're getting it.
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