Help! Anyone With Experience With Bettas Please Give Me Advice&#33

[bettalover09169]

Hi there! My poor female betta who I have had for over a year has stopped eating! I have always had bettas and have a lot of experience with them but i have never had them stop eating for more than 3 or 4 days and im really worried! She was in a tank with 3 male guppies and 2 corydoras, in a 10 gallon tank and I did a water change (25%) and changed the filter out for a clean one. I conditioned the water before i left for a few days over memorial day weekend and had my brother sprinkle some bloodworms and tropical flake mix in there for them and when i left she was happy and eating plenty, she always is excited to see me. When I came back all of my other fish are happy and healthy but she did not come up to see me and is not interested in eating at all! I tested the water and all of my levels are normal and I even took a sample to the pet store and he said everything was fine... I moved her to a small, gentle filter flow tank, and put betta fix and fresh conditioned water in there. Her color is healthy, her stress lines are not visible at all, and she does not have any parasite that i can see. Since i moved her she is taking notice of my finger a little bit and shes not frightened of me like she was. I just dont understand why she is scared, uninterested, and not eating. HELP!

 

[ninjacheesefish]

You seem to be doing everything okay, I'm not that experienced with Bettas but is it possible that your brother overfed her? I was thinking if she's not eating and hiding, maybe she's having some serious digestion time?

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

Hi betta lover

I've got a couple of questions for you if that's ok - when you say you changed your filter out for a clean one, could you be more specific as to what you did? For example, did you swap all of the filter media out for brand new ones? Did you just give the media a rinse to clean it and then put it back in? If you did just rinse it, did you use old water from your tank or tap water?

What kind of test kit are you using for your water? What exactly are the results you're getting? (I especially need ammonia and nitrite)

 

[alstermania]

Believe it or not, bettas are picky when it comes to food selection. If you changed your betta's diet, it may not eat.
Anything else? Looks healthy? Nothing out of the usual, besides not eating?

 

[Martha689]

many thanks

 

[aly_starh]

Try coating the pellets in some garlic juice. Just get a clor and mash it up to make the juice. Garlic for bettas also help there health. The smell of garlic should attract it good luck!

 

[ZephyrStarPlaties]

If you changed the filter media, the tank is re-cycling. Like others said, try using garlic on the food. Next time, be sure to just rinse the filter in old tank water.

 

[bettalover09169]

Thank you for all your suggestions! I really appreciate it! But i moved her to a hospital tank i had on hand and she just refused to eat, i was so frustrated and upset and she passed during the night. I do beleive it was old age because she was over a year and a half old and I think it was just her time, I fed her bloodworms and a tropical flake mix and she sometimes munched on some algae wafer bits she definitely was never a picky little girl. She was one of the best bettas i ever had and she will truly be missed....

 

[OldMan47]

It is time for a huge water change. By replacing the filter you have uncycled your tank. I am a bit surprised you are not seeing stress symptoms in all of your fish.

 

[Aqua Girl]

Question? How long has she not been eating. Because my Betta who always hits his food like a shark. Just up and stopped eating one day too. But that only lasted two days and he started back up again so make sure u arnt feeding her too much

 

[nanuk]

yes, your brother could have overfed her. bettas can go without food for up to abput 2 weeks. my betta stopped eating for a while when it started to get old. when bettas get older they arent as energetic and they were before when they were younger.