Bubble Eye Betta Fish

This common practice is about building an oxygen rich environment to hatch fry from eggs but that doesn t mean a male has to mate in order to build one.

Bubble eye betta fish. In most cases one eye swelling is caused by physical damage. Though never fun a fresh environment isolation and medication will get your betta back to normal and prevent further outbreaks. Suddenly my betta fish has a huge swollen bubble on his left side and it s causing him to swim on a slight angle.

Having a betta fish can be exciting if you know how to treat your fish and it can be fun and awe inspiring to watch the natural way in which the male creates a bubble nest. This is my first betta fish but i ve been trying hard to keep him clean and healthy so i m very upset. The cause of popeye is generally a bacterial infection.

On rare occasions female betta fish can blow bubbles in the tank when they are alone with no mate in the tank. The way to treat this is to change 30 of the water in the fish s tank. Unfortunately your betta is experiencing a symptom known as popeye in which fluid builds up behind the fish s eye.

My first betta the one who was in the community donahue the blue cambodian has suddenly developed a case of bubble eye. He was hiding in his cave when i got home carefully came out to inspect the new inhabitants and eat and i noticed. If so then your betta most likely has popeye also known as exophthalmos or exophthalmia which is more of a condition rather than a disease.

This can be a result of your fish banging into something getting into a fight with another fish or even if you re too rough when catching him in a net. By a bubble over your betta s eye do you mean that your betta s eye is bloated looking like a bubble. The bubble over the fish s eye is a sign of a bacterial infection.

Popeye for the most part isn t fatal. Popeye is when your betta fish suddenly gets a bulging eye. The purpose of a male betta fish bubble nests is to invite the female fish to a spawning session.