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...yeah. He's dead.
I wish I could figure out what happened, what I did wrong...I made some mistakes, but none of them should have been fatal...
I...guess I'll take him to the lake as his final resting place tomorrow. Then...idunno. I'll be out tomorrow. I have all this Betta equipment and no...
So I've been posting previously about my fish, Zeke, on this thread. I moved him into a new tank after he took up tailbiting, but he hasn't really been recovering. Mostly been resting on his side at the bottom of the tank, changing places every now and then.
I think he's been eating, but I've...
Thanks. I just got a new thing of Betta food for him too, and it's one of those 2-in-1 flake/pellet switches. I also have some freeze-dried prawn I think? But I stopped giving it to him as much because I think the excess really gummed up the tank.
Okay, I've gone through the other tests. My Nitrate test is showing up neon yellow, which should indicate that I have no significant nitrates, and I'm seeing clear blue from my nitrite test which also indicates I'm clean.
Apparently I have no means to test chlorine now, but the strips I'd used...
To catch anyone unaware up to speed, I inherited a Betta from my aunt, and I've never cared for one before. He's been pretty lively up until about a month ago, where he'd began damaging his fins - presumably tailbiting, based on what I'd researched on the pattern and abruptness of it.
As a...
Ohhhh, so that's what you meant...
Well I guess that's nothing new. Businesses seem to have been exploiting the average pet owner's lack of understanding about their pets from the jump.
But it is alarming how much more...overt it is in these instances.
Yeah, Aiken Drum helped me find that out. I'm really glad I didn't put any in.
I'm sure there's some use for it, but I'm not sure why they'd even market something like this to Bettas...
Thanks, Colin. I think that with the help of you and Aiken Drum, it's probably a safe assumption that, because I dramatically underestimated regular tank changes and failed to notice I had no means to test for ammonia, this is most likely the result of poor tank quality - since he appears to not...
...you know, now that you mention it? I can't find it either. I swore there was a medicine independent of BettaFix that was specifically for curing bacterial infections, but now I can't find it. Maybe I just dreamed it? I honestly don't know...
Alright. You mentioned the water change kit last time too. I haven't picked it up yet, but I have today off so I'm going to physically go out and buy it instead of waiting for it to be shipped. Then I can know for certain what I'm dealing with. I'll see if I can get some BettaZing while I'm...
I'm not sure if I do. I have strips that test pH, Nitrate, Nitrite, Carbonate Root, Hardness, Chlorine, Alkalinity, Iron, and Copper. But not explicitly ammonia, from the looks of it.
Should I go out and get some that do?
It's only been a week since the change, I believe. I'm changing the water today. I haven't noticed any significant presence of nitrites or chlorine yet, but I guess that's to be expected. It is a ten-gallon tank with one Betta in it.
I forgot to mention this, I did purchase an Eco Biostone. I...
So I recently tranferred my fish, Zeke, into a larger tank because I thought he might be feeling bored with his old surroundings in a smaller 3.5 gallon tank. Before then, he was spending a lot of time laying on the bottom of the tank, and not visibly eating food (tbough I had seen him flit up...