This is Otto Octavius. I made snello for the first time and had my mystery snails in his tank (temporarily). Boyfriend and I were cleaning around the house when I saw him in the dish next to the snails just chowing down. I took the dish and the 2 snails out and decided to put them back in my 20. Otto is in a 10 gallon and i got him about a week ago. he's been doing great so far he's just greedy!! Ill be cupping him when I put any other food in the tank besides his own.
These are pictures from last night, he looks a little better this morning so I expect he pooped a bit over night. I was running a little behind for work so i didn't get any pics. I plan to flare him when I get home from work since I heard thats a good way to get him to poop. He's being fasted as well, but I get mixed advice on wether or not to feed him a little bit of crushed pea to help him poop. Would dried Daphnia work as a laxative too? I also have pure Epsom salt for baths.
I am normally very hesitant on posting in any fish tank related sub because the extreme enthusiast just nit pick and suck the fun out of these hobbies, so please if you're not going to be kind, just keep your opinion to yourself. This is the first time ive had a betta since middle school.
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Posted by PsychoticKitten3
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I guess I gotta answer the bot questions.
* **Tank size**: 10 gallon
* **Heater and filter? (yes/no)**: yes and yes
* **Tank temperature**: between 75 and 78. Depends how cold the house is.
Ph is at around 6.4 to 6.5, working on that. Gonna add a small amount of crushed coral to the HOB soon to help with bringing it up a tad. Ammonia is basically 0, so is nitrite and the nitrates are Def below 20 ppm. I cant remember the numbers as I checked last night and wasn’t really thinking about making a post. I used liquid tests, no test strips here
* **How long have you had the tank? How long have you had your fish?**: the tank has been running all year, started out as a small fish tank, then I turned it into a neocaridina breeding ground. I’ve had him for almost two weeks.
* **How often are water changes? How much do you take out per change? What is your process?**:
I haven’t had to do a water change in a long while, but now that I have him ill probably just do bi weekly 25% ~30% water changes. I have an RODI filter and I just add minerals to it if needed.
* **Any tankmates? If so, please list with how many of each**: 6 pygmy corys and a butt load of shrimp
* **What do you feed and how much**: I cannot remember the brand but I feed him what the aquatics store fed their betta stock. About 3~4 pellets in the morning before work and the same at around 7:30pm
* **Decorations and plants in the tank**: lava rock, drift wood, all live plants. Red roots floaters, Java moss, assorted anubias, crypts, a pretty red plant, some cute little green plans, green stem plants in the back, and a tiger lotus. Sorry I just dont know the names of some of these plants. I’ve got UNS controsoil and a divider with UNS controsand
His greed knows no bounds. Honestly he’ll probably be fine, he clearly over-indulged but if he’s already looking better I would just continue to fast him today and see how he looks tomorrow. No peas, bettas can’t digest plant matter, daphnia is the move if he doesn’t improve.
Dried daphnia, frozen brine or mysis if you have it, and give him time. My betta recently got dropped into bladder snail heaven (my 30 gallon aquaterrarium) after his tank crashed, and I honestly cried when I saw him the next day. The floor was littered with shells and he looked like he had swallowed a basketball. More than a month later and he’s doing fine. Still munches snails (I hear him crunching them when it’s really quiet in my office) but is doing fine. Monitor him, and give him time. They’re greedy little monsters but usually do ok. Don’t feed peas.