An t-iasg
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I posted about a week ago; I thought my betta was getting old. He had trouble eating. Now he can't really swim anymore. I netted him yesterday, but didn't lift him out of the water, because I thought it would help him eat if he didn't have to chase the food. I dropped the food in the net and it floated to him. He ate one little pellet. He ignored the other pellets. I didn't even try to feed him today. I knew he couldn't come up for the food, and I didn't want to stress him with the net again. He has been lying on the bottom all day, kind of on his side. Sometimes I see his gills moving, kind of fast, and sometimes they don't move. I've added BettaMax for the recommended 3 doses. It hasn't helped. I didn't really think it would, but I wanted to try something. There are no visible parasites or disease (he doesn't have dropsy like my other betta did when he died). Sometimes he'll swim very erratically, and then just fall back down, and wherever he lands, he'll just stay there for awhile.
Is there anything else at all that I can do? It's so hard to watch him lie there.
Is there anything else at all that I can do? It's so hard to watch him lie there.