mind stumping problem

[blove]

I am copying and pasting from a message board i frequent.

Hey like I have said before i recently got two new Betta's Manson and
Buzzkill. Well I cleaned out their bowels 4 days ago and 2 days later
Mansons water was bright red . I was soooooo freaked out by it that i
cleaned out his bowel again and looked him over to see if he was bleeding
but he wasent. Tow days after i cleaned out his bowel again the water turned
bright red! Why would it do this? does anyone know?
I use city water in their bowels im not sure if thats good for them or not
of if it would turn the water red. And note that only Mansons water is
turning red Buzzkill's is not.
I feed them the occasional blood worms but their regular feed is HBH Betta
Bites. Their a brown crumbing type of feed.Also I just give them 4 peices a
day and they eat them right away.
This all is just too weird

what is everyones thoughts?

[Velvet]

blove wrote:

> I am copying and pasting from a message board i frequent.
>
> Hey like I have said before i recently got two new Betta's Manson and
> Buzzkill. Well I cleaned out their bowels 4 days ago and 2 days later
> Mansons water was bright red . I was soooooo freaked out by it that i
> cleaned out his bowel again and looked him over to see if he was bleeding
> but he wasent. Tow days after i cleaned out his bowel again the water turned
> bright red! Why would it do this? does anyone know?
> I use city water in their bowels im not sure if thats good for them or not
> of if it would turn the water red. And note that only Mansons water is
> turning red Buzzkill's is not.
> I feed them the occasional blood worms but their regular feed is HBH Betta
> Bites. Their a brown crumbing type of feed.Also I just give them 4 peices a
> day and they eat them right away.
> This all is just too weird
>
> what is everyones thoughts?
>
>

First off, it's bowls, not bowels :-)

Are there any decorations in Manson's bowl that could be leaching colour
into the water?

That's the only thing I can think, other than some odd algae/bacterial
bloom going on.

Do you have a filter on the bowls - if so, is there anything in there
that could be leaching colour into the water?

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Velvet

[sophie]

In message >, blove
> writes
>I am copying and pasting from a message board i frequent.
>
> Hey like I have said before i recently got two new Betta's Manson and
>Buzzkill. Well I cleaned out their bowels 4 days ago and 2 days later
>Mansons water was bright red . I was soooooo freaked out by it that i
>cleaned out his bowel again and looked him over to see if he was bleeding
>but he wasent. Tow days after i cleaned out his bowel again the water turned
>bright red! Why would it do this? does anyone know?
> I use city water in their bowels im not sure if thats good for them or not
>of if it would turn the water red. And note that only Mansons water is
>turning red Buzzkill's is not.
>I feed them the occasional blood worms but their regular feed is HBH Betta
>Bites. Their a brown crumbing type of feed.Also I just give them 4 peices a
>day and they eat them right away.
>This all is just too weird
>
>what is everyones thoughts?

if you're cleaning their bowels out I'm not surprised ;-)
seriously, I recall a thread about red water here a few weeks back. I
seem to remember the cause was pretty benign.

quick google:

http://tinyurl.com/5jmcm

which may or may not be relevant, but there are a lot of threads in the
rec.aquaria hierarchy which mention it:

http://tinyurl.com/4xn8d

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sophie

[nuchumYussel]

The chlorine could be hurting him. Are you using a dechlorinator?

Evan Davis