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When white fins turn pink?

April 26, 2017fins pink turn white

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When white fins turn pink?

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Hi, I have a male Betta with a white butterfly pattern (a white band on the outer edges of all the fins). When I got him, the white parts were perfectly white. Over time, all the white has become a peachy pink. I am afraid my water has some compound or heavy metal in it that is causing his fins to become stained! What could this be? I doubt it is his natural coloration changing — I breed Bettas and am pretty sure that he’s genetically supposed to have a white band, not peach. I’ve looked everywhere on your site for the answer to this, and the closest answer I could find is that blood veins in the fins sometimes become visible due to irritation of some sort, causing a white fin to look pink. I doubt this is what is happening in my fish. I don’t see any vei