my good little betta
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Hi! 1 mo. ago had just "hospitalized" beta in tank by self w/General Cure. Was in tank a few days but stiil looking very slluggish so thorough cleaned 10 gall tank (along w/6 other small fish, some kind of tropical about 1/7 size of female betta, 2 of them really dinky babies) and then, as previous times had put betta in hospital tank, after being in there a few days she wasn't looking that great, but revved up again after put in cleaned tank. It's a 10 gallon but wanted water level low at first so as not to stress fish, so h20 level only about 2-3 inches at first.
So bc it seems she has been blind for awhile. The last time I fed her she was kinda twisting in a bit of a weird way, but did eat off the spoon, I read somewhere that food is supposed to be 5% of body weight or size or somethig and the bloodworms I fed were less than that. I generally change h20 a bit every day but sometimes it's like every 1.75 days as in last few days. Then in last few days when I was just too tired to change h20 I put in some betta flake food. then next night I changed h20 and put in a smashed up pea, changed h20 but didn't see beta and assumed she was hiding as I'd turned light on suddenly and other fish were also hiding. But this a.m. she was dead. I did notice what kind of looked like a buff-colored blister on the underside of her mouth. I feel terrible. Perhaps if I had put her in the hospital tank again when she looked a little weird she would now be o.k.
But, then again, before -- a few different times -- she really didn't seem to rev up in the hospital tank per se, but only when I had her in there a few days and then put back in regular tank.
I have a small heater but frankly I hadn't been using it. I just got it a mo. ago when she was sick. I kind of figure that if the power goes out you don't want all the fish dying because they're so used to heated h20. I don't know what everyone else does about this, but she did manage to survive 5-6 years w/o a heater; we keep heat in house at 70 though it can dip to 68 occasionally.
Have never seen other fish bother her. What do you think i did wrong? Thanks!
So bc it seems she has been blind for awhile. The last time I fed her she was kinda twisting in a bit of a weird way, but did eat off the spoon, I read somewhere that food is supposed to be 5% of body weight or size or somethig and the bloodworms I fed were less than that. I generally change h20 a bit every day but sometimes it's like every 1.75 days as in last few days. Then in last few days when I was just too tired to change h20 I put in some betta flake food. then next night I changed h20 and put in a smashed up pea, changed h20 but didn't see beta and assumed she was hiding as I'd turned light on suddenly and other fish were also hiding. But this a.m. she was dead. I did notice what kind of looked like a buff-colored blister on the underside of her mouth. I feel terrible. Perhaps if I had put her in the hospital tank again when she looked a little weird she would now be o.k.
But, then again, before -- a few different times -- she really didn't seem to rev up in the hospital tank per se, but only when I had her in there a few days and then put back in regular tank.
I have a small heater but frankly I hadn't been using it. I just got it a mo. ago when she was sick. I kind of figure that if the power goes out you don't want all the fish dying because they're so used to heated h20. I don't know what everyone else does about this, but she did manage to survive 5-6 years w/o a heater; we keep heat in house at 70 though it can dip to 68 occasionally.
Have never seen other fish bother her. What do you think i did wrong? Thanks!
