Things such as overfeeding your fish and overstocking your tank adding too many fish can cause the water conditions in your tank to quickly worsen. While bettas can survive in poor water conditions for a time, it is going to drastically reduce their lifespan.
And in some cases, if they get so bad, your betta is likely to die from ammonia poisoning very quickly. You should also be vacuuming the gravel in your tank to remove any rotting debris from the bottom.
It can contribute to the death of your betta in a variety of ways. First of all, some bettas have a temperament which means they need to be on their own. Not only will this stress out any other fish in your tank, but it will also stress your betta. In this is going to stress him out which could result in him dying suddenly. Another problem is that your betta will have trouble breathing. Luckily bettas can breathe from the surface thanks to their labyrinth organ.
However, they also breathe in the water as well. If you search online what size tank a betta should be in you get all sorts of conflicting and dangerous advice. Some people say 2. However, bigger is always better. It sounds counterintuitive, but the bigger the tank the easier it is to maintain. If you were housing your betta in anything smaller than 5 gallons then you should buy a bigger tank before you get another one. Here are the best 5-gallon tanks you can get for bettas. A poor diet, in general, can quickly become fatal.
Bettas are primarily carnivorous. You should be feeding your betta a mix of live food, frozen food, high-quality pellets, and freeze-dried food. Daphnia is a great choice to feed bettas. However, brine shrimp and mosquito larvae are great choices as well. This is just a lie, and while it may look nice, your betta will be suffering tremendously. Other fish in the tank may end up being aggressive towards him as well.
Even fish you think are docile such as tetras can be fin nippers. And you should definitely avoid cichlids which will tear your betta apart.
Okay, this one is pretty self-explanatory. You may have a decoration in your tank which has caused damage to your betta that can result in him dying suddenly. The most common thing to happen is that he can snag himself on something sharp which could quickly become infected. I had to go to work before the pet store opened but I added safe start this morning. After work I took a sample of the water to pet smart.
They said the parameters were out of whack. I asked what specifically, they said everything- very low ph, high ammonia and high nitrates. They said my poor fish may not survive. I asked if there was anything I could do, like do a water change, she told me no but to wait a week.
I came home and thought about it. I felt like I had to do something, the water was already toxic and making him sick. I still treated it with aqua safe just to make sure. Hopefully this would check at least one thing off the list of bad parameters? Then I added more safe start and started the filter. I didnt use the filter yesterday because I got the feeling maybe he didnt like it or it was too strong. After I did the water change and started the filter, hes been laying in the fake bushes.
Maybe hes too tired and sick to go up for air, especially with the filter running and pulling him. Is there anything else I can do to try to save this poor fish? Should I continue doing water changes every day? Turn the filter off? Maybe I should take him back to the pet store and have them put him back in their water. I hate when living things suffer because of my stupidity. I fish is just over a year old and I was cleaning out some of the water he was swimming towards his cup and got scared and injured him self some how.
Hes just hiding. What should I do? He seems like hes dying but then hes swimming a little bit. Also, if your last betta died in only a few days after introduction, an acclimation issue to the pH of 8, which could have been way off from the LFS's could have caused enough stress as well.
You can call the LFS and ask them what their pH is. My wife keeps bettas, and I know she really has to dump her 2. The cloudy water is a good indication of poor water as you know , so the WCs were good.
I know my wife feeds her bettas 3x a week. Oh yeah, we have our bettas up agianst our fish tanks so they stay active - I know this is a factor too. Again, I'm sure you know Marinemom AC Members. Apr 8, 3, 0 0. First of all the betta should always be in a filtered tank regardless of what anyone may tell you about this fish not needing that. It is also advisable that the tank be heated to around 78 degrees on the farenheight scale since they are tropical fish. Water changes need to happen every week in these tanks for these fish just like any other fish you may keep.
If the water was cloudy from what you suspect was overfeeeding and the tank is not filtered regardless of ther fact that it had live plants , then something may have been out of balance and the betta did succomb to it. Try keeping a betta in a filtered and heated tank with regular water changes and see if that makes a difference.
Marinemom, I already stated in my post that a first betta tank was filtered b 2nd betta tank was 78 degrees c I did water changes every week ct-death, you could be right about acclimatization, I don't think I was as vigilant as usual on the 3rd betta, but the 1st and 2nd ones were acclimatized carefully, and did survive well past the early acclimatization stages, but not ever more than a year Jan 23, 0 0.
Hmmm, got me stumped, maybe try another store if you are inclined to stay by the Bettas. I have found that the Bettas are not as hardy and all tolerating as is reported on most sites.
I am hoping that the fry I am raising will be of a hardier strain, since I am not dosing them with medications and leave them in a normal planted tank fed with live Cyclops and water fleas! Apr 10, 0 0 Its not impossible to have a non filtered cycled tank.
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