If you want your betta to be mentally and physically healthy, you will need to look after them. For their health, one of the best ways is to know about their poop.
It is a great indication of your bettas health. If you find that your bettas are pooping regularly, you can rest assured that your bettas are in good shape. When there are lots of fish in your aquarium, you know that most fishes poop like strings, they appear long and thin.
But bettas poops are round and sticky, like the food pallet they eat. For this reason, it is hard to notice if your bettas are pooping right. The betta poop tends to settle at the bottom of the tank. Betta poops are hard to identify, most people mistake it for leftover food pallets for bettas. But that is not the case, they are actually betta poops that collect at the bottom of the water tank.
Bettas generally, poop at the same spot. They usually select a particular place, where they like to get it done. When a betta is looking for a specific place, they want it to be private and personal. Sounds interesting? Yeah, it definitely is. They like to specify their place for their private activity. You can look for betta poops hidden near a plant or small cave-like places. One of the ways to tell if your betta fish is healthy is to check out its pooping time.
Bettas must poop regularly if they are healthy, as it is with all sorts of animal species. If you are giving them food properly, then betta fish will poop daily. When they do, you need to keep the time, quantity and appearance in check to make sure they are healthy. If a betta is sick, their poop changes. When you notice they are not pooping normal, it is a sign that your betta is suffering from constipation.
Generally, betta poops have a pallet like a shape, similar to the food they eat. They are also reddish-brown in color. Any change in the appearance of betta poop in shape or color means they need help. Stringy brown poops are often formed when betta is suffering from constipation. It could also be a result of feeding them too much.
If you want healthy betta in your aquarium, you will need to feed it right. Almost all fish even scaleless can usually tolerate that low amount of salt but that being said I cannot guarantee no issues. I can say I've never had any problems with my shrimp or snails at that percent of salt. More serious fin rot is treated with 3 tsp per gallon. That is what I'm using for a guppy that was beat up by his fellow guppy tank mates and has a sorry shredded tail.
If you have time I'd pickup the frozen blood worms today and see if you can interest him in one or two. The water change may perk him up too. Fin rot will cause loss of appetite. Increasing the temp to 80 would help but not fix it at this point I would say. I think you should never use aquarium salt with a Betta. I've treated 7 bettas fin rot with furan 2 and all lived. I find live brine shrimp is what I give a sick fish if you can get any.
I agree with pringles, they are freshwater fish for a reason. Salt is unnecessary and does more harm than good. He has barely any fin rot, daily water changes are all you need at this point. Bettas do best at a temperature of 80 as well. I would stop feeding the bloodworms as suggested above, they must be soaked before feeding and contain almost to nutritional value.
Click to expand The conflicting advice is confusing! I don't have the opportunity to buy aquarium salt, meds or frozen blood worms until Wednesday. Would pellets be better than nothing?
They are the teeny tiny ones. Assuming I could actually get him to eat I'll try to squeak a water change in before I go away. He's so sullen and hasn't eaten in days now. It's like he's giving me the silent treatment when I try to get his attention. Please help! Could not get to store before closing for frozen blood worms. I will be leaving town before the pet stores open in the morning.
Is there anything else I can feed him? I saw a picture on another post and everyone said the betta looks skinny. The bone visible in the side. Mine has that! I fear that I was so worried about bloat that I underfed him. And now he won't eat Is there anything else I can give him??? I think your Betta looks great! He's not skinny at all. How long are you going to be away? I would be worried, too! But try not to, you're only going to be away for about a day and I'm sure he'll be fine until you get back Do you have any standing water around your place?
I would take a spare net and go mosquito larvae hunting. No Betta worth his salt can resist. That is entirely possible! He could just be full I did notice that little bump in his side, back near his tail. That, IIRC, is his swim bladder. It usually only protrudes like that if they need to poop. If you buy anything at the pet store I would choose brine shrimp or Daphnia over bloodworms, just because they can help with those sort of issues And Bettas can go a lot longer than a few days without eating.
Don't worry! He'll be fine until you're back. You could feed him a cooked microwaved de-shelled pea if he'll eat it to help with the constipation. I'm sorry about the differing opinions, it happens a lot with disease treatments and I don't think anyone is trying to cause confusion though that is usually the outcome. I can only give you recommendations from my experience with bettas and other community fish. Here are my recommendations: 1.
Do an extra water change 2. Stop with the freeze dried blood worms and pellets temporarily 3. See if he perks up with the above 5. See how his fins look and add in an extra water change or two. If fins get worse, and water changes are not enough, do a low salt tonic treatment 7. If poop continues to look stringy after change in diet, consider using a parasite treatment like API General Cure.
I have to agree with the website information below and on another forum similar information was always given for betta's:. Found a dead shrimp thismorning. Betta face planted at the bottom. Even his friend is checking on him. I'll get some blood worms today. I also have another thread going about brown algae. It is taking over.
What is going on with this tank? CindiL I am thinking with my questionable filtered water history it might be good to add a little bag of fresh carbon with the next water change? Your marimos are looking strangely pale, too.
Sorry your betta isn't looking so good x. What are the water parameters today? I would be worried with a dead shrimp, a sick Betta, and strangely pale Marimo. Oh no, poor thing. What have you been doing this week so far? Thinking back to your old thread, this is the first tank you've had just using the filtered tap right? And you're sure its a dead shrimp and not just a molt? We know your ammonia and nitrites are 0 in this tank.
I'm sorry if I'm asking redundant information but it would be helpful to re-state it for me and others helping you with the betta in this thread too. I'm tempted to tell you to pick up some spring water if you think its your tap. When was the last filter change on your tap and have you tested it recently? Also, I'd dose prime today if its possible its metal related since we never knew exactly what it was that caused the deaths before with your unfiltered tap. Do you have shells in this tank?
Sorry for the length. Trying to address everything. I came home a few hours later and he was hanging back in his spot at the top sitting on the heater. My son used a light up toy to "cheer him up" and that seemed to get his attention enough to come over and eat a few defrosted brine shrimp. Here are today's tank parameters: ph 8. Yes, this tank is using water from the Everpure system. My last tank was just treated tap.
The fish were fine for a few weeks but then every time I did a water change I would lose one. There were so many theories as to the cause because I had gone on vacation on week 3 and my neighbor over fed the tank. My thoughts were that perhaps something bad in tap water and the carbon just lost its ability to catch it. All my above substrate plants are doing well.
They're growing new leaves all the time and probably need to be divided. It's amazing they are ok as this brown stuff looks like it is choking them out. I noticed the moss balls getting pale but I honestly can't tell if it's the brown growing on them.
Side note: I have two more balls from the same shipment in a glass vase on my kitchen window and they are forest green in de chlorinated water only. No food I had three Amanos. They all seemed fine. I'm averaging 3 molts a week.
The guy that was dead thismorning actually turned white opaque during the weekend. I thought it weird but it's my first time with Amanos. I noticed during the water change today that the betta was exploring the other side of the tank. Doing some flaring and looked more lively. I am possibly overfeeding, although I do what the container says and feed him what he can eat within 3 minutes, although he normally eats about little pellets within 2 minutes.
Just tons of poop since I got him a couple months ago. The containers provide very general advice. Every betta fish is different, and I recommend feeding pellets, times daily. Thank you for the information. If my beta has long white slimy poop, sounds like it has an internal parasite. Is there a way I can help it? Or get rid of the parasite? Thank you — Sammy. Sometimes it can be from what you fed him or her? If it appears your betta is losing weight, it could be a parasite.
Also, a thorough cleaning and disinfection of the tank and replacement of filter media would be required. If you have tank mates, they would need to be treated too. Hi Bryan — So glad to find your site, thanks so much for being a resource to us Betta parents! I love my Betta, he is a double tailed male that I got in July of For about a week and a half now, he has been very lethargic and we are very concerned about him.
He mostly hangs out at the top of the tank and is very still. Then he started floating on his side and having trouble staying down when he swam and I learned about swim bladder disease. We are about to go away for the weekend so I gave him some fresh water tonight and it was really scary because he started swimming upside down and panicking and then just kind of floating at the top and gasping for air.
He righted himself and looked OK eventually but I want to help him so much! My suggestion would be to continue fasting him, or feeding him less than normal for now until things improve.
Ideal feeding is pellets daily, or pellets 2x-daily. You could try soaking the pea in some garlic juice sometimes that helps entice them. Another piece of advice, if your betta is eating the pellet quickly, soaking it in some tank water to let it expand and get more moisture before feeding can also help with constipation and bloating. Why is my betta fish pooping a clear liquid. Also another one of my betta has poop stuck to him is it possible that he swallowed a cat hair? Stringy white poop, hanging from a betta is also a sign of constipation — if it resembles that.
Review what you are doing feeding-wise and adjust as necessary. I feed him 3 pellets in the morning and at night. For the past days since I got him, his bowl was very clean as if I just changed the water. On his fourth day, he stayed on top of his water and didnt move much inactive so on the same day, I bought him a new bowl and a new fake plant and put him there.
It is very dark green like the color of the beta pellet I feed him. This is the first time I saw poop in his bowl since I took him. I know this is the first time because I dont put substrate in his bowl. What does this mean?
Do betta poo color depends on the color of the pellet he eats? Or is this an indication that something is wrong? Im worried. Betta poop can change colors, but the warning signs are no poop constipation or stringy white poop disease. Is the pelelt made specifically for bettas? My juvenile betta has been having string white poop. Each time the poop will not release and I see him trying to get it off! Today I managed to scoop out the latest poop for a closer inspection and it was more gelatinous, or mucus-like?
He stays more in one area near, or on, the bottom of his tank. Could the brine shrimp be causing the poop to look like that?
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