KhloeM
Aquarium Advice Activist
hi guys! so i've recently found that my betta Zeus is *i think* biting his own tail. ugh, so frustrating! i think it's more of boredom since he is in my bedroom all day with no one in there while i'm at school. i don't believe it could be stress because i tested the water with an API Freshwater Master Test Kit, and all is good.
Zeus is in a heated 5 gallon tank with a sponge filter, all by himself. I have two silk plants, one live plant (Anubias), a moss ball, a ceramic log that he likes to go inside, and a little plastic tree decoration (that is smooth, won't hurt his tail, but i'm getting rid of it anyways.)
i tried different things to entertain him such as putting a clean ping-pong ball on the surface, but he just doesn't seem to really care. i'm using bettafix for his tail (which seems to be helping a lot) but i'm afraid that if he gets bored he'll just start biting it again.
what i had planned on doing was adding ghost shrimp to entertain him, if he didn't eat them all, but my mom found it necessary to pull up all of the negative reviews on PetSmart's website about the horror stories that people have experienced with ghost shrimp eating their fish. and now i really don't think i was to take the chance, even though plenty of people have had ghost shrimp with their betta and had no problems.
my question is, do you guys know of anything at all that would entertain my little guy so he doesn't bite his tail? here's what i'm definitely going to do so far:
•add more live plants
•get live brine shrimp for him to hunt down once in a while
thanks in advance for any advice!
Zeus is in a heated 5 gallon tank with a sponge filter, all by himself. I have two silk plants, one live plant (Anubias), a moss ball, a ceramic log that he likes to go inside, and a little plastic tree decoration (that is smooth, won't hurt his tail, but i'm getting rid of it anyways.)
i tried different things to entertain him such as putting a clean ping-pong ball on the surface, but he just doesn't seem to really care. i'm using bettafix for his tail (which seems to be helping a lot) but i'm afraid that if he gets bored he'll just start biting it again.
what i had planned on doing was adding ghost shrimp to entertain him, if he didn't eat them all, but my mom found it necessary to pull up all of the negative reviews on PetSmart's website about the horror stories that people have experienced with ghost shrimp eating their fish. and now i really don't think i was to take the chance, even though plenty of people have had ghost shrimp with their betta and had no problems.
my question is, do you guys know of anything at all that would entertain my little guy so he doesn't bite his tail? here's what i'm definitely going to do so far:
•add more live plants
•get live brine shrimp for him to hunt down once in a while
thanks in advance for any advice!