New Betta Stress Stripes

When your little swimmer becomes stressed her vibrant colors can fade and horizontal dark and light colored stripes appear on her body.

New betta stress stripes. First time i had heard of it. If a betta is stressed for long amounts of time it will exhaust itself until. If you are posting to find out what is wrong with your betta please answer the following questions in a reply to this comment as best you can.

It is generally agreed that stress stripes run horizontally while breeding stripes run vertically so make sure to check which ways the lines are running. In darker fish the stripes don t show unless there is stress which darkens them even more. The employee at the petstore made a comment that a lot of the females they got in had really pretty stripes.

Low or long term stress is stress that is minimal however occurs constantly. These cells are still somewhat dark even when there is no stress. They call it racing stripes when the betta fish is under a lot of stress.

I came across a post about stress stripes. Betta stress stripes are your betta s reaction to sudden changes or unfavorable aquarium conditions. The racing stripes can be caused by stress.

Depending on the color of the fish s body stress stripes can always be present especially in females. Look at the body of your betta for horizontal stripes and faded colors. In a low long term stress environment your betta will be constantly trying to adapt.

Sometimes the betta is infected by bacteria or fungus hence the color is faded or have some blotch spots on the body and fins. The stripe ismade up of special cells that the fish darkens when under stress. So i have a betta corazon that i just got about a week ago and he has been eating fine and has been very energetic however just today i noticed he had fairly prominent horizontal stress striping on his body and his chin seems to be whiter than usual.