I’ve had hwr since she was a baby and she’s 8 months old now. She’s been suffering for nearly 2 months and nothing I do seems to be working. She has swim bladder issues but other than that seems fine? I’ve grown really anxious and sad seeing her every day despute the dosing of all sorts of meds and water changes and epsome salt baths etc. I don’t want to euthanize her as she at least ro me still seems active and pretty stubborn but also do not want to give her back to petco to become someone’s last minute gift. Any advice?
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Also wanted to mention: I don’t have a single place near me that specializes in betta fish health. I have called and no one seems to have any sort of info in helping take care of betta. I have tried and I’m still alone in this other than online.
I don’t know too much about bettas as i’m new to this, so i’m unable to give you some solid advice (i’m sorry) – but I just wanted to say i’m really sorry you’re going through this.
Maybe you could see if there’s any other betta owners in your area willing to take her?
You sound like a really good and loving owner. I really hope someone on this post is able to give you some good advice to help out your girl❤️
Have you tried fasting her? Or live food?
Looks sad to me. Clove oil. Its time
If it’s impacting her way of life than you should put her down. I had a big old lady I adopted and she had such a big personality very similar to a dog with how excited she would get to see me in the mornings. She got swim bladder and wasn’t able to swim. Shortly after she started to pine cone but it got better with time. The pineconeing went away but she still had swim bladder the swim bladder stayed the same. I had to put her down because I felt so bad with how often she would pinecone and it would go away the very last time she pineconed I know it was so hard on her and hard on me so I did the humane thing. Clove oil. It was my first time ever euthanizing anything! She swam in between my fingers and drifted to sleep. It was the right thing to do. I painted some rocks with her colors in honor of her memory. Sorry you and betta are going through this.
Thank you everyone for the advice. I get it. I’ll have to think about it for a little bit. Might get one of my family members to do it. But I honestly am pretty devastated right now.