My betta stopped eating about 9 days ago. I have tried everything to get him better and nothing seems to be working. Here is some more info...
1. His tank is 4 gallons and filtered.
2. I planted some Pothos plants in the filter two or three months before he stopped eating.
3. I do weekly changes of 1/2 gallon and refill with prime treated tap water.
4. About the time he stopped eating I noticed his tank temperature was not being maintained by the cheap heaters that I had. The tank was hovering around 74 degrees. I bought a new heater and now it is around 78 degrees.
5. I took a sample of his water to Petco and they said that all the parameters were okay.
6. I did a PPM test on the water and found it to be around 550(LA tap water comes out at 235ppm). In the last few weeks I started adding a little reverse osmosis water to my changes to reduce the PPM.
7. In the beginning I suspected that he was constipated so I did give him 3 Epsom salt baths 1 per day. 1 tbsp per gallon for 15 minutes. We had a bad habit of feeding him 5 to 6 pellets once per day in the mornings and gave him dried bloodworms a few times a week in the evenings.
8. I recently purchased some Equilibrium and plan on only using treated reverse osmosis in the future.
9. I purchased some live bloodworms to see if I could get him to eat but he ignores them.
10. I purchase some daphnia eggs and I'm trying to hatch them but I don't think it will be fast enough to save him.
11. He is about 2 years old and shares the tank with 2 snails and 2 ghost shrimp.
I hope this is enough information I'll post some pictures.
1. His tank is 4 gallons and filtered.
2. I planted some Pothos plants in the filter two or three months before he stopped eating.
3. I do weekly changes of 1/2 gallon and refill with prime treated tap water.
4. About the time he stopped eating I noticed his tank temperature was not being maintained by the cheap heaters that I had. The tank was hovering around 74 degrees. I bought a new heater and now it is around 78 degrees.
5. I took a sample of his water to Petco and they said that all the parameters were okay.
6. I did a PPM test on the water and found it to be around 550(LA tap water comes out at 235ppm). In the last few weeks I started adding a little reverse osmosis water to my changes to reduce the PPM.
7. In the beginning I suspected that he was constipated so I did give him 3 Epsom salt baths 1 per day. 1 tbsp per gallon for 15 minutes. We had a bad habit of feeding him 5 to 6 pellets once per day in the mornings and gave him dried bloodworms a few times a week in the evenings.
8. I recently purchased some Equilibrium and plan on only using treated reverse osmosis in the future.
9. I purchased some live bloodworms to see if I could get him to eat but he ignores them.
10. I purchase some daphnia eggs and I'm trying to hatch them but I don't think it will be fast enough to save him.
11. He is about 2 years old and shares the tank with 2 snails and 2 ghost shrimp.
I hope this is enough information I'll post some pictures.
