My betta seems to be very tired and refuses to eat from the comments on the petshop I bought him everyone seems to be saying all the fish they got are sick but I had him for 3 months and he’s always been a energetic fish but got like this 2 weeks ago he has a 5 gallon tank with good parameters and I do a water change 1 times a per week
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Can you share the parameters and more info about the tank like its age, whether nitrogen cycled, any tank mates etc?
Thanks
He looks emaciated. What do you feed him? Can we have exact perimiters and a picture of his tank? Do you have a filter and heater? What’s the temperature? Does he have other fish in the tank? Is the tank cycled and do you use a declorinator?
What’s the ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and pH? Water temperature?
If ammonia is high, water changes of 25%-50% daily – I see the fish in a dish, why is that?
You shouldn’t be changing all water unless something extreme has happened. Did you make any changes, like changing filter material? You don’t want to change the filter material out. If you did that, let us know.
A good temperature range is 78-82 fahrenheit without knowing more.
Filters oxygenate the water usually, but some aren’t great at it, so adding an air stone can help connected to a pump.
What types of food(s) are you feeding? Has that changed?