What a very beautiful home indeed!!! and too mention.. A VERY beautiful fishhhhh

 

thank you - look forward to comments about his conditions.

 

It looks like he has a touch of fin rot. For now, just make sure his water is ultra clean, and maybe add a pinch of aquarium salt (dissolved first into the new water you change in). Most of the time clean water is all they need to recover, but if it gets worse you can look at more intensive treatment.

The water parameters aren't ideal - detectable ammonia means you have it either in your tap water, or you need to increase water changes. Have you tested your tap water?

If the ammonia's in your tap water, be sure to use a drop per gallon of Prime or Ammo-Lock (I recommend Prime) per day to render it harmless.

The tank's small, but you can upgrade that in time. Since you can fit a heater, it'll do for now. Do you know how many gallons it holds? Water change schedule varies with tank size. A bowl that size probably needs to be changed 100% every day or every other day. If you have no other way to know, you can use a gallon water jug and measure how much it takes to fill the bowl during changes.

 

flames betta bowl setup




thanks for the advice...
yes from the source the water tests .25ppm( our water is well water)
I do have Ammo-Lock, as I cant get Prime here.
I thought that bettas dont like 100% water changes.?
My bowl is 12 Litres.

As for fin rot- exactly how much salt is needed??
As I will be doing a water change soon.

 

I have noticed that his water has gone a little cloudy.
so I will put the bowl under a slow running tap , which normally clears the cloudiness.
Also add 3 drops of ammo lock as recommended.
and a pinch of disolved aq. salt.

 

I am feeding him 2 omega ones in the morning and 2 in the evening.
will give him a treat on saturday and fast him on sunday

 

That all sounds good. By a pinch I really mean a pinch - it's more of a gentle preventative, and more salt than that isn't good for them unless you're trying specifically to treat something. Fin rot is best treated with clean, warm water and 100% water changes every day until it's gone.

Lucky you with well water. No chlorine! You might want to pick up water conditioner anyway, if you have the chance and money - a good conditioner also removes heavy metals. Be sure to read the label first to make sure it does that.

Bettas don't really enjoy 100% water changes, but in the case of illness or very small containers, it's the best. When you don't remove water 100%, it becomes a sneaky slow build-up of ammonia, because the leftover water has ammonia in it, and it blends with the clean water you're putting in. Every water change, the fresh water has less and less of an edge over the dirty water already present.

When you do 100% water changes, you clean everything, including the gravel, temperature match the water as best as you can, and then float your betta in the new tank. Acclimate him as though he is going into a brand new tank for the very first time by letting him adjust to the temperature, and then slowly replacing his cup water with the tank water over the course of around 30 minutes. If you do so gently, they will have a minimum of stress.

If that bowl is 2.5 gallons, after the fin rot is gone you can go to one 50% and one 100% change per week. That should keep the water clean enough for his continued good health.

 

I use Api pur for water conditioner.
oh... i didnt know about cleaning everything when doing 100% WC.

I let the tap run slowly on his bowl over a period of time and that removed the cloudiness.

 

Yep If you don't have a filter, you won't be able to cycle the tank. Instead, you'll want to clean everything around once a week, with a partial water change in the middle of the week somewhere. That cleans up any debris, fish poop, or leftover food that you might have missed during the mid-week cleaning.

 

ok...
i dont have a filter, so 100%WC once a week, that sounds ok, and say 50% mid week.
any other tips

 

he seems to be having difficulty eating the omega 1 pellets , he trys to take one and he keeps head butting it.

thats worrying to me, as he may not be getting enough food.
????

 

You can try cutting them in half. He may also not like hard food, so you can try soaking the pellets for 5 minutes before feeding.

 

will try that tomorrow as some of the pellets have sink doh!!!

 

I will have to see what works best, either cutting it in half or soaking it.
I do have Api betta pellets, which are smaller, but they dont seem to like those.

 

Don't worry too much. They can go a very long time without food, so you can figure out what is going on without worrying too much about his safety.

 

thanks for that

 

going to try and cut pellet in half in a bit and see if he can eat it.....
will keep you's posted on progress

 

ok. so I just went to feed him....
1.- tried cutting the pellet in half- not so easy as it disintegrates into pieces..
2.- soaked them....not successful- he takes too long and before you know it they have sunk.

I tried a few api betta pellets which he wasnt sure about at first, these are a lot smaller than the Omega one, but he did manage to eat one, which got me thinking that I will have to try harder to cut the Omega one pellet in half.

very frustrating not seeing him eat.

 

Just done a 100% WC as found some type of fungus appearing around top of bamboo.

added a pinch of AQ salt and will post water params later.

 

Ok...
so after a 100% water change with water cond. and ammo- lock

water params are as follow:
Ammonia:0.25ppm
nitrate= 0ppm

will do a partial WC mid week and retest and post results

 

The ammo lock won't remove the ammonia, it'll still be detectable. It just locks it up into a harmless form for 24-48 hours. So don't panic, it's probably your tap water.

 

yes it is the tap water, but before when I ran the tap into bowl slowly, I had it down to 0ppm.
but like you said I will add some drop in every day.

 

I managed to chop the pellets in half or so, and he ate them ok yay!!!!

 

Awesome

 

will do a partial WC tomorrow and post water param results.

 

I need a plant for the bowl that feeds from the water column.
any ideas??