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Alyssa02

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I don’t know what is wrong with my male betta. I got 2 males yesterday and one of them was very active and liked swimming around. But today he seems not right. He is staying in the top corner of his tank not moving around. He ate this morning. And the other betta ate too and he seems perfectly fine. They have connecting tanks with the same water but are separated by a wall. He isn’t interested in moving at all. I am concerned he’s sick. And I’ve added stress coat to both of their waters. I just don’t know what is wrong with him
 
check the ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH of the water.

do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate.
make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

post pictures of the fish.

have plants in the tank, especially floating plants.
 
Colin_T said:
check the ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH of the water.

do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate.
make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.

post pictures of the fish.

have plants in the tank, especially floating plants.
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Ok. I just doesn’t make sense because my other fish has the same water because I got specific betta water and I put cleaner in it already and changed the water but I will try that. My other fish isn’t showing any signs of this behavior
 
This is my fish
 

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Could you explain what you mean by "specific betta water"? Most of us use dechlorinated tap water.
 
Hi, did you cycle your tank? Also you don't have to buy "betta water" you can just do like what essjay said it should be less pricy on the long term. How many gallon is their tank?
 
Meg0000 said:
Hi, did you cycle your tank? Also you don't have to buy "betta water" you can just do like what essjay said it should be less pricy on the long term. How many gallon is their tank?
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It is a waterfall tank so I turned the flow way down and it has a filter but when I have it on it just makes noise and it doesn’t do anything so I just keep it off. And it’s about 1.3 gallons
 
He just swims from corner to corner and lets his tail point towards The bottom. He hasn’t moved really all day
 

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Alyssa02 said:
He just swims from corner to corner and lets his tail point towards The bottom. He hasn’t moved really all day
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You might not want to hear that but your tank is too small, you should really consider getting for both of your betta a 5 gallon or just get one and give back one betta to your LFS. If you can't get them another tank for now you will need to do waterchange almost everyday because without live plants in a small amount of water like that, the water will become toxic to your fish pretty fast. I don't know what your betta has but he might also just be stressed because he is in a new tank but please consider what I said at the begening
 
Meg0000 said:
You might not want to hear that but your tank is too small, you should really consider getting for both of your betta a 5 gallon or just get one and give back one betta to your LFS. If you can't get them another tank for now you will need to do waterchange almost everyday because without live plants in a small amount of water like that, the water will become toxic to your fish pretty fast. I don't know what your betta has but he might also just be stressed because he is in a new tank but please consider what I said at the begening
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If I get a bigger tank will I have to get a filter system or anything. Or can it just be water
 
Alyssa02 said:
If I get a bigger tank will I have to get a filter system or anything. Or can it just be water
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Well If you have very fast growing plants and floating plants you should be good and the betta will apreciate them a lot. There is a lot of "no filter tank" on youtube, you should go take a look it is very interesting. MD fish tank, Foo the flowerhorn and many other youtuber have these type of tank and they did video about them. Oh I forgot if you can't just have a tank, you need heater for the betta and light for the plants.
 
Meg0000 said:
Well If you have very fast growing plants and floating plants you should be good, there is a lot of "no filter tank" on youtube, you should go take a look it is very interesting. MD fish tank, Foo the flowerhorn and many other youtuber have these type of tank and they did video about them. Oh I forgot if you can't just have a tank, you need heater for the betta and light for the plants.
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Ok I do have a heater for both fish tanks and where do I find the plants.
 
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