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    Fish Laying on His Side, Fins Out, Tinted From Blue to Red

    Thanks, and thanks for bringing that to mind. I'm not sure if he had a disease, but I suppise it's better to play it safe.
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    Fish Laying on His Side, Fins Out, Tinted From Blue to Red

    ...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...
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    Fish Laying on His Side, Fins Out, Tinted From Blue to Red

    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...
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    Update on Zeke: Still Alive, Still Not Moving Much

    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.
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    Update on Zeke: Still Alive, Still Not Moving Much

    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...
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    Update on Zeke: Still Alive, Still Not Moving Much

    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...
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    Transferred Betta to New Tank; Still Not Doing Well

    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.
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    Transferred Betta to New Tank; Still Not Doing Well

    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...
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    Transferred Betta to New Tank; Still Not Doing Well

    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...
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    Transferred Betta to New Tank; Still Not Doing Well

    It's a little late for that, but I'm glad I waited on using any of it. Thanks for letting me know beforehand.
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    Transferred Betta to New Tank; Still Not Doing Well

    ...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...
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    Transferred Betta to New Tank; Still Not Doing Well

    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...
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    Transferred Betta to New Tank; Still Not Doing Well

    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?
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    Transferred Betta to New Tank; Still Not Doing Well

    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...
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    Transferred Betta to New Tank; Still Not Doing Well

    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...
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