Hi all,
I just bought a nice "pink" (pure flesh colored) male betta from an LFS. I have several bettas, and have had them for many many years. I am addicted to buying the odd "rare" color that shows up in the local LFSs. This new guy just up and keeled over today for no apparent reason. I am wondering why this happened.
I bought him lastnight, he looked good in the LFS, was active and his fins were "out", not clamped in or anything. When I brought him home, I poured him into a canning jar (temporary home until I bought him a 2 gallon tank and HOB filter like the rest of my bettas), along with the water from his bag, and topped it up with water from a cycled betta tank. I offered him one pellet of food about 2 hours after he was in his jar, and he quickly gulped it up, so I put two more in, and he ate that as well. This morning I checked on him, and he looked good, was swimming around. I didn't feed any of my fish this morning. I just came back from work, and I see he's now dead on the bottom of the jar. His scales are all standing on end, and he has blood streaks through his dorsal fin, as well his fins are coming off in small chunks. Does anyone know what has caused this sudden death (of such a beautifully colored fish too!)???
I just bought a nice "pink" (pure flesh colored) male betta from an LFS. I have several bettas, and have had them for many many years. I am addicted to buying the odd "rare" color that shows up in the local LFSs. This new guy just up and keeled over today for no apparent reason. I am wondering why this happened.
I bought him lastnight, he looked good in the LFS, was active and his fins were "out", not clamped in or anything. When I brought him home, I poured him into a canning jar (temporary home until I bought him a 2 gallon tank and HOB filter like the rest of my bettas), along with the water from his bag, and topped it up with water from a cycled betta tank. I offered him one pellet of food about 2 hours after he was in his jar, and he quickly gulped it up, so I put two more in, and he ate that as well. This morning I checked on him, and he looked good, was swimming around. I didn't feed any of my fish this morning. I just came back from work, and I see he's now dead on the bottom of the jar. His scales are all standing on end, and he has blood streaks through his dorsal fin, as well his fins are coming off in small chunks. Does anyone know what has caused this sudden death (of such a beautifully colored fish too!)???