Help!!! Insanely Bloated Betta
- Thread starter FloridaChick
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Feed it a quarter of a pea and see if that helps. I have no clue why it’s that bloated. What are you water parameters? What else is in the tank?
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FloridaChick
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Can you clarify the pea suggestion?
I assume a pea size portion or a pea??? Have a few tetras, bettas, loaches and peppered catfish. Don't know parameters. Could methalyne blue help?
No, don’t use methalyne blue. Try the pew first. Is he still swimming normally?
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FloridaChick
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Swimming is difficult but she looks OK otherwise.
Have you fed her the pea? I would also reduce the flow if you can.
foxgirl158
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Kinda looks like dropsy, which is usually fatal. Try fasting her for a day or two and give her a boiled pea. If that doesn’t help, I’ll have to assume it’s dropsy 
Attenbruh
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For the pea, skin it and boil it, make sure the fish doesn't fall to the bottom of the tank or just get it out and put it in a quarantine tank. It will likely not make it for much longer.
Attenbruh
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Also that really is insanely bloated! It could be swim bladder in which case do the pea thing.
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FloridaChick
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Thanks!Kinda looks like dropsy, which is usually fatal. Try fasting her for a day or two and give her a boiled pea. If that doesn’t help, I’ll have to assume it’s dropsy
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