Poorly Betta

[daiandgems]

Hiya my male betta seems to be unwell his stomach is swollen which i thought he was constipated so ive starved him for 4 days only feeding him a pea which i thought would help but he seemed uninterested in the pea and is very listless he jus stays by the filter unlike him hes always swimming about also his fins look a bit ragged and thin and we only have 2 corys in with him have done for 9-10 months tank has been running jus checked water and stats are
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-5
ph-7.4
so that seems all fine so am confused now what to do next any help would be great thanks.

 

[Loops]

Water changes every day for a week, this will really help. How often do you normally do water changes and how much?

What size tank is it?

I am sure someone will be along soon to give more advice.

 

[daiandgems]

I do a 35%-40% water change weekly and its a 28l tank starting to think he may have dropsy

 

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

I think one of my female bettas has dropsy as well .

Does your fish have pine-coning? like when you look at them from above, it looks like the scales are sticking out?

 

[Loops]

yeah he may have, i lost lotus to this on saturday, he got worse over 2 months, i hope yours hasn't x

 

[daiandgems]

Yeah he does seem to have a pine cone effect to his scales thats what made me think it was dropsy is there a cure for this?

 

[Loops]

From what I have read no there isn't, i tried for 2 months trying to help Lotus, he was still eating but was so full of fluid he was too heavy to go and get air. It was upsetting.

Do you have a photo?

 

[daiandgems]

No i dont have a photo but will try and get one asap im so gutted as its my 4 year old daughters favourite fish