David Ellsworth Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 I have a betta that spends his day glass swimming in the tank. He was by himself in a 10 gal for several months. He has glass surfed since I had him, back and forth on the glass. I tried placing fake plants and objects (decorations) in the aquarium to give him cover and things to interact with, but nothing stopped the swimming or the fin extending and flaring. The quarantine tank was near the floor and only gets ambient room light, no aquarium lid. PH=7.42 Ammonia= 0.25 (did a water change recently and this close to my tap water level) Nitrites= 0 Nitrates=30 KH= 3 drops GH= 22 drops Temp= 78F TDS= 785 This was a quarantine tank he was in to monitor him. I have moved him to a planted 20 gal tank that I have cycled and he is alone in that. His glass surfing has continued there over the last two days. The water test was from the water he came from in the quarantine tank. Below is a pic of one of his eyes. This is the best I could get with my Macro Lense, He is contently moving. His eyes look very odd. He can still see and when he moves you can see the pupal of his eye, but the front half is kind of cloudy. When at rest his eyes are kind of cloudy or lazy. The only information I could find online about betta eyes is infection or parasite, Injury, or cataracts? Could he have damaged his eyes on the glass? Both eyes look like this. When he is swimming it kind of looks like drop eye on an arowana, but not quite, so kind of lazy eye and cloudy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Cloudy eye is usually caused by poor water conditions it could be the ammonia causeing the eye problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ellsworth Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 I moved him to a new that new planted tank. It has better parameters, planted tanks are easier to manage with my water. It is hard to keep a quarantine tank with good water conditions for me. Water changes add ammonia and quarantine tanks don't do the live plant thing. In the new tank he has not glass surfed as much, he still does. He hunts all the microfawna in the tank now, but still flares a lot and extends his fins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 His eye should get better now you have improve water conditions if it does not get better in 1week I would treat with aquarium salt or maracyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toska Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Is he a dragonscale? Sadly lots of times their scales grow over their eyes that's kinda what it looks like to me. Look up diamond eye. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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