m.bug
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
hi.
i wrote about 2 and a half weeks ago that my betta was extremely bloated. i was afraid it was dropsy. i began treating for dropsy, doing daily water changes and also treating him for possible constipation by feeding him peas and adding epsom salt to his water.
i was very stringent about doing those things for about a week and a half. but he showed no sign of improvement whatsoever. and the daily water changes i felt were stressing him out. he is still huge, very very round but he never developed the pineconeiness of dropsy. so after this time i have to assume he is just severely constipated. he is acting relatively normal but he swims a little less than normal.
he lives in 2.5gal heated filtered by himself.
does anyone have any new ideas to help him get well. i assume he cannot go on like this forever.
i wrote about 2 and a half weeks ago that my betta was extremely bloated. i was afraid it was dropsy. i began treating for dropsy, doing daily water changes and also treating him for possible constipation by feeding him peas and adding epsom salt to his water.
i was very stringent about doing those things for about a week and a half. but he showed no sign of improvement whatsoever. and the daily water changes i felt were stressing him out. he is still huge, very very round but he never developed the pineconeiness of dropsy. so after this time i have to assume he is just severely constipated. he is acting relatively normal but he swims a little less than normal.
he lives in 2.5gal heated filtered by himself.
does anyone have any new ideas to help him get well. i assume he cannot go on like this forever.