Betta Ate Until He Burst!

[Ecco]

It seems that sometime last night my betta Tsunami got into the frog's food and now his stomach is so grotesquely bloated that it's cracked and bleeding (at least I hope that's just blood! ) on one side. Is there something I could give him -- a laxative or something-- to relieve the internal pressure?

 

[havoc_crazy]

oh...my... I know nothing about this type of situation. what was the frog's food containing?

 

[White Whale]

Out him in a shallow container with 2 inches of water so he doesn't strain himself to get to the surface and do water changes every other day. Don't feed him for about a week or so.

 

[Ecco]

Thanks for the replies.

It was the frogs' weekly allotment of frozen brine shrimp that my betta snarfed up (along with his own portion that he'd eaten a bit earlier.) Since I knew Tsunami was a piggy, I'd been hiding the frogs' food in a cave that they frequent, but apparently he figured that trick out last night.

I tried netting Tsunami to move him into the hospital tank, but freakishly oversized stomach or not, he was still zooming all over the place, so I eventually gave up lest I traumatize him any further. I'm definately not going to be feeding him anytime soon.

 

[daydreams_uk]

sounds awful...hope he recovers soon

 

[mrcrabbs]

exlax?

 

[BettaBabe]

I'd get him out of the aquarium into a bowl with stress coat and melafix. Of course, he shouldn't eat until his belly goes down. I know that a cooked green pea can be used as a laxative. It worked on my zebra and my betta who ate up a flake spill that my husband had and when I came home they were all bloated and their under bellies were white!!

Three days it took that they looked normal! The cooked and pealed pea will go to the bottom. I fed them that on the third day.

BB