ocminpin
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Fluffy the betta has been a fishy member of our family for almost a year now. My girlfriend kept him in a 2g bowl with no heater or filter up until about 3 weeks ago. After a horrible case of fin rot he slowly came back from I convinced her he needed to be in a tank with heater and filter. His fin rot started out almost overnight and he went from normal to fins breaking off when he's swim suddenly and you could see fin pieces floating in the water. That was in July/August and after much convincing and a lot of healig on Fluffys part he was recently moved into a 20g L with 2 platies. There is no aggression in the tank whatsoever and everyone is peaceful. Fluffy generally does have odd behavior like seclusion and it looks like he's completely unmoving and at first glance you'd think he was dead but moving your hand in front of him he flutters to life and swims normally.
Up until last week when I moved him from a 10g to the 20g he ate 3 pellets every other day. In this last week he has been eating a small amount of Omega One Veggie Flakes once daily.
He has been fairly active since being put into the 20g... Seemingly very happy with the space.
Since Day 1 the parameters via API liquid test kit have been:
Ph- 8.2
Ammo- 0 ppm
Nitrite- 0 ppm
Nitrate- 10 ppm
I've been doing two 50% PWC a week.
His belly may seem bloated? He's also breathing like a goldfish does... I've never seen him move his gills to breath before till tonight. Just trips to surface. Perhaps I'm also not used to seeing him in brighter light so maybe I am actually seeing everything on him now. Can you guys please take a look? Maybe he's just bloated and isn't feeling well so he needs peas for a couple days? He ignored feeding time tonight.
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Up until last week when I moved him from a 10g to the 20g he ate 3 pellets every other day. In this last week he has been eating a small amount of Omega One Veggie Flakes once daily.
He has been fairly active since being put into the 20g... Seemingly very happy with the space.
Since Day 1 the parameters via API liquid test kit have been:
Ph- 8.2
Ammo- 0 ppm
Nitrite- 0 ppm
Nitrate- 10 ppm
I've been doing two 50% PWC a week.
His belly may seem bloated? He's also breathing like a goldfish does... I've never seen him move his gills to breath before till tonight. Just trips to surface. Perhaps I'm also not used to seeing him in brighter light so maybe I am actually seeing everything on him now. Can you guys please take a look? Maybe he's just bloated and isn't feeling well so he needs peas for a couple days? He ignored feeding time tonight.
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