Recent content by tibby25731

I will do. I love my fish and hate it when they are ill.

Thanks. I've just done a real big one along with a good hoover of the gravel, fingers crossed now. Will keep up the partial changes too until i am sure he is better

Definitely around the 40 mark now but probably higher when i got back from holiday. i didn't know about shaking the bottles so at least I will do it right in future. Fingers crossed I can save my betta now. Thanks everyone for the help. :)

I guess I just need to keep up the water changes, reduce the light, stop feeding for a few days? I hope this all works out. Will remove him temporarily from the tank after work tomorrow and give the gravel a real good clean

Yeah, he has a plant, and a hidey hole, and an ornament so he has plenty that he usually likes to swim around. The tank was properly cycled, yes, it's been cycled since last October with no problems. I'm gonna give the nitrate another check now with your recommendations... I think it's likely...

I wondered about tail biting as he is not happy when he doesn't have company. I know the 3 weeks was too long but there was nobody ho could do this for me whilst I was away, my inlaws have strange ideas about fishkeeping and I just couldn't trust them. I'll just have to keep up with the water...

Tank is 15 litres with only him in there. It has a filter and a heater. The tests i did showed absolutely nothing on ammonia, nitrite or nitrate. I did these after the water had been changed though as when i got home and saw his raggedy fins, first thing I did was change the water to help them...

Water was changed before I went, then 3 weeks later, I guess another water change now would be good too. He's really not good though and I have tested the water and all is ok, hence why i am thinking meds might be needed at this point...

I've been away for almost 3 weeks and in that time I asked my father in law to feed my betta. I made up portions of food for him in little pouches and told him when to feed. he did this, but he did say he just opened the pouches above the tank then tipped them in. Doing this likely means most of...

I'm back from my holiday and all fish are present and correct! So relieved, I was expecting to lose a few at least. Thanks for the help, I needed calming down!

Fish still looking good today. I presume the ammo lock will affect my tank readings to make it look like no ammonia? So I guess I can't really know if the mature media is doing its job or not, but I have high hopes. I've seeded a filter before and had no problems. Fish are back to their normal...

Well I managed to get some mature filter media. Also ran some carbon to remove the meds in case that was what wiped out the filter. Store gave me some water with aquarium salt and ammo lock in it to help out too. Looking like things might be OK. FIsh seem in good shape!

Water change done. Great timing, tank! Just when I have done my back in :( wah! Quick question - temperature up or down? Not sure why but I cranked it up a few degrees the other day when adding meds.... its now around 27 degrees... good or bad? Been so long since I needed to know all this stuff :(

Ammonia seems a tiny bit lower than yesterday. All fish now behving normally. I popped a tiny bit of food in and although they didn't dive on it like normal, they have all come up for some. Only added a tiny bit, don't want them producing too much waste right now, but good to see they are...

Will do. I hope everything is OK, I love these fish so much... especially my plec, he's like a pet dog to me.Tough old fish though, the only fish left from my original stock way back when I had no idea what I was doing