SHD
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- Posted: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:39:37 +0000
**Warning** Long post ahead. xp
Back story:
Mussolini, my betta is not a happy camper. Normally he is in the 10 gallon tank with several snails and ghost shrimp. He was really happy and would swim about the tank and explore. He played with a few of the betta toys he has and would always follow me around the tank when I walked passed. He would be veracious for food and happily blow his little bubble nest in the corner. But since I am waiting for the new tank to cycle, he is in a smaller 5 gallon tank. It is heated to the normal temperature that I have him at, which is 78 degree's F. The water has been treated and dechlorinated. I used at least half of the water from his old tank (before it blew), so there was really only about a 40 % - 50% water change. The Ph of the water is 7.0, so it is within normal range. I've put some of the plants/things from his old tank in with him and the other stuff is in the new tank to help cycle it a bit faster.
Anyway! When I say Mussolini is not happy, it is because he isn't acting like himself. Instead of swimming about up at the top and just acting normal, he is at the bottom corner of the tank, doing nothing. I've caught him several times just floating at the bottom in the corner, under a part of a plant. When I go to feed him (twice a day, betta pellets or freeze dried blood worms), he doesn't come up to eat like normal. He either waits a few minutes, comes up, eats a bit and then ignores the normal amount of food he would eat, or he doesn't eat at all and I have to scoop out the food. I've tried not feeding him for a day and then trying again, but he either doesn't eat all of it, or ignores it. I fed him less last night and this morning there were still two pellets floating around, so I pulled them out.
Does anyone have any idea's as to why he's not happy? I mean, I guess he could miss the big tank, but I mean, it's not like he's in a tiny cup. I don't see anything abnormal that would suggest disease. I hope someone can suggest something to help make him feel better. The snails are in the tank with him, but sadly, my shrimp died when the tank blew, as I had not gotten them out yet.
Thanks for reading!
Back story:
Okay, so I had a previous forum explaining that while I was cleaning one of my 10 gallon tanks, the bottom blew out on me and so I was forced to get a new one a.s.a.p. Since I didn't want to buy a new one for $75.00, when I still had all of the equipment and just needed the tank, my father got me a used one for free from a friend of his. I got some advice on here about cleaning it out and cycling it like I would a new tank. So that is what it is doing now, I have it all set up and cycling with a couple of small shrimp in a net, as I don't like to do 'live-cycling', I think it's cruel. Which means that my fish that was living in my now exploded tank is forced to live in a much smaller holding tank then he is used too.
However....there is a problem.
However....there is a problem.
Mussolini, my betta is not a happy camper. Normally he is in the 10 gallon tank with several snails and ghost shrimp. He was really happy and would swim about the tank and explore. He played with a few of the betta toys he has and would always follow me around the tank when I walked passed. He would be veracious for food and happily blow his little bubble nest in the corner. But since I am waiting for the new tank to cycle, he is in a smaller 5 gallon tank. It is heated to the normal temperature that I have him at, which is 78 degree's F. The water has been treated and dechlorinated. I used at least half of the water from his old tank (before it blew), so there was really only about a 40 % - 50% water change. The Ph of the water is 7.0, so it is within normal range. I've put some of the plants/things from his old tank in with him and the other stuff is in the new tank to help cycle it a bit faster.
Anyway! When I say Mussolini is not happy, it is because he isn't acting like himself. Instead of swimming about up at the top and just acting normal, he is at the bottom corner of the tank, doing nothing. I've caught him several times just floating at the bottom in the corner, under a part of a plant. When I go to feed him (twice a day, betta pellets or freeze dried blood worms), he doesn't come up to eat like normal. He either waits a few minutes, comes up, eats a bit and then ignores the normal amount of food he would eat, or he doesn't eat at all and I have to scoop out the food. I've tried not feeding him for a day and then trying again, but he either doesn't eat all of it, or ignores it. I fed him less last night and this morning there were still two pellets floating around, so I pulled them out.
Does anyone have any idea's as to why he's not happy? I mean, I guess he could miss the big tank, but I mean, it's not like he's in a tiny cup. I don't see anything abnormal that would suggest disease. I hope someone can suggest something to help make him feel better. The snails are in the tank with him, but sadly, my shrimp died when the tank blew, as I had not gotten them out yet.
Thanks for reading!