does your college sanitize the rooms with any sort of cleaner??I recently transferred my betta back into his 5 gallon at my college.
does your college sanitize the rooms with any sort of cleaner??I recently transferred my betta back into his 5 gallon at my college.
I don't think my apartment complex sanitized over break. I also wrapped the tank in plastic wrap to try to control evaporation.does your college sanitize the rooms with any sort of cleaner??
Thank you again!There is something wrong with the tank.
Clean the filter in tank water.
Drain the tank and wash the gravel under tap water.
Set the tank back up with dechlorinated water.
Add some carbon to the filter.
Increase aeration/ surface turbulence to maximise oxygen levels in the water.
If he is breathing heavily in the morning, drain the tank and set it up without gravel or ornaments and see how he goes. There might be something leaching out of them.Thank you again!
I just completely cleaned out my tank and added new water. For some reason, when I put my betta in a temporary 1.5 gallon storage container he was acting fine, but I just put him back in his tank and he is breathing heavy again. I think that he is just stressed out, but I will check up on him again in the morning.
By RO water you mean reverse osmosis?There is definitely a huge change in water quality. Back home, I was able to give my betta RO water that was remineralized with seachem equilibrium and alkaline buffer, which he probably enjoyed. I tried to keep the ph the same as my college when using RO water since the tap water at my college is really high in ph(8.3). However, since I am a broke college student, I do not know if I can afford to buy him RO water here. He was doing fine in my college tap water before break, so maybe he just got used to the RO water???