she does this alllll the time if she isn't asleep…. i've thought through and assessed all possible reasons but maybe she is just having fun? or healthy and energized? but i worry that something may just be wrong :/ She will even go faster or race back and forth for hours. does anyone know why she's doing this?
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Posted by laciebaked
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Mine does this too!
Female bettas and male bettas with short fins can actually swim, and some people say they need a lot more swim room. Some people say they zoom around only when stressed, others say they’re just super active when they have short fins and prefer bigger spaces to explore with natural plants to explore around. So like long tanks rather than tall. But for seeing if she might be stressed by water quality at all, you’d wanna know parameters of the water, nitrites and ammonia, nitrates, how long the tank cycled for, if you treat your water for hard metals and chlorine/etc, how often you do water changes, how big they are….
Basically the info people ask for to diagnose if the fish is stressed or not is pretty much everything you can say about your tank tbh. My female betta would get the zoomies, but she had a 29 gallon. She was active, short finned, and super interactive, but she did not pace for hours at a time.
Hopefully one of our members who has the betta care sheet will pop in. That is a stunning betta! Best of luck, and long happy life wishes for your betta!