Hi.
If you look at some of my other posts you'll see Benny. a 1.8-year-old betta who got a tumor around 8 months ago.
For the past 2 days, he is barely able to swim.
Up until 3 days ago he seemed to be doing well and an active swimmer. I did a water change on the 12th and of course, I forgot to turn the filter back on (only for a 1/2 of a day though, and I dosed with beneficial bacteria after I realized).
I would love to think he's just stressed from the water change but I honestly think it is because of his tumor. He still eats, but he only swims to eat and I can only feed him 2 pellets before he needs to take a break on the driftwood or a leaf. It's like he's out of breath.
He used to come and swim up to me when I enter the room, but now he'll just move his head to look at me from the bottom of the tank
I was just giving it a few days to see if it was stress or not before I seriously consider euthanizing him, but It's a hard choice to make. My mother is also super upset and doesn't understand that you can't really cure him. However, if there is any possible way to make him better and more comfortable to swim I would be up for trying it. Maybe one of those like breeding boxes I can put him in just so he's closer to the top? I feel like that would just be more stressful though.
I would feel really bad to keep him alive if he's just going to suffer, but I wanted to see if there was anything I could do first.
If you look at some of my other posts you'll see Benny. a 1.8-year-old betta who got a tumor around 8 months ago.
For the past 2 days, he is barely able to swim.
Up until 3 days ago he seemed to be doing well and an active swimmer. I did a water change on the 12th and of course, I forgot to turn the filter back on (only for a 1/2 of a day though, and I dosed with beneficial bacteria after I realized).
I would love to think he's just stressed from the water change but I honestly think it is because of his tumor. He still eats, but he only swims to eat and I can only feed him 2 pellets before he needs to take a break on the driftwood or a leaf. It's like he's out of breath.
He used to come and swim up to me when I enter the room, but now he'll just move his head to look at me from the bottom of the tank
I was just giving it a few days to see if it was stress or not before I seriously consider euthanizing him, but It's a hard choice to make. My mother is also super upset and doesn't understand that you can't really cure him. However, if there is any possible way to make him better and more comfortable to swim I would be up for trying it. Maybe one of those like breeding boxes I can put him in just so he's closer to the top? I feel like that would just be more stressful though.
I would feel really bad to keep him alive if he's just going to suffer, but I wanted to see if there was anything I could do first.