katielizabeth
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We just got our first betta tonight for our two year old daughter. We originally bought the hex tank from PETCO for some goldfish my husband won our daughter at the fair this past weekend which sadly ended up dying so we decided to take her to buy a betta tonight. My husband cleaned the tank out very well with hot water and cleaned the vase filler which we had at the bottom of the tank. We added the vase filler back in with some betta plants then added water and some de-chlorination solution. We let the filter run for an hour before we put the betta in it. The water was luke warm, not too cold for it. For the last hour or so he has been acting very frantic, swimming fast then going to the top of the tank and kind of floating on his side. I was really worried thinking I killed him at first but then he started swimming again. He is now floating at the top of the tank not moving his little fins but every now and then he will flutter his long fins very fast, then stop. I'm worried we did something wrong and I feel horrible. Can someone please help me out? When I asked the lady in the fish area about the betta's she told me what to do and we did everything she told us to. Only thing we didn't get is a thermometer for the water to see the actual temp but when my husband put some water in a cup then felt it, it felt luke warm like she told us to do. I turned the filter on because I wanted to see if he would move and the current form the filter pushed him around the tank and he was not swimming or moving, but when I turned it off he swam back to the top of the tank on his own. He is now just hanging out at the very top of the tank next to the filter.