Ok.. history on this betta. I was at my LFS (which is owned by a friend of mine) when he came in. He had the worst case of popeye I've ever seen. Plus his tail was in ROUGH shape. Hes a crowntail, pretty one too! Well she treated him for the popeye and I bought him. I dont know how hold he is. It took 2 weeks before this guy would eat when I brought him home. He wouldn't touch ANYTHING I put in there, peas, frozen bloodworms, flakes, bio gold.. nothing. Now he will only eat bio gold and bloodworms. Wont touch anything else. Hes always been somewhat unhappy. I've been treating with melefix cause I cant find any bettamax, for the messed up tail fin. (But not constant cause I hate medicating.... I treat like every other week, but its not helping.) All my other bettas (8 of em) get excited when I come up. He sits completely still and just stares at me. I am very good about water quality. I put him next to another male (both in one gals just pushed right up against eachother) and that perked him up a bit. Now I've got him next to a female to see if that would make him happy... he showed no intrest for 2 days (this was after the prob I'm getting to) and now he flares at her now and again, but hes no where near like the other boys get. And its really only a half attempt yk?
So anyways. The other day he all of a sudden flared out all his fins AND his gills and floated to the bottom and landed on his side very stiff completely flared out. He stayed this way not even twitching a gill for about a minute when he got himself upright and a few seconds later slowly started to 'pump' his gills closed to a normal position. He swims fine, eats fine (what he eats) and isn't any different now than he was. I wasn't doing anything in or around his tank.. nothing was different than it is every other day. What was that? Its really been bothering me, happened a few days ago. What can I do to make this guy happier? Here are three pictures of him so you can see his tail fin.
This is how he is all the time... how he holds his fins.
So anyways. The other day he all of a sudden flared out all his fins AND his gills and floated to the bottom and landed on his side very stiff completely flared out. He stayed this way not even twitching a gill for about a minute when he got himself upright and a few seconds later slowly started to 'pump' his gills closed to a normal position. He swims fine, eats fine (what he eats) and isn't any different now than he was. I wasn't doing anything in or around his tank.. nothing was different than it is every other day. What was that? Its really been bothering me, happened a few days ago. What can I do to make this guy happier? Here are three pictures of him so you can see his tail fin.
This is how he is all the time... how he holds his fins.
, iv noticed that males have these fins hanging under them just a lil ways behind their head and because he had them folded i couldn't tell but i took another look, your right 
if he seems to be fine even after the accdient i wouldn't worry about it too much. (must have been weird to see 
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but they are healthy. Maybe eh's just a grumpy one 
