My betta is in a heavily planted 5 gallon tank, I have had him for around a month now. Tank is cycled. He lives with 4 shrimp and 2 nerites and a bunch of trumpet snails.
2 days ago I noticed him spazzing out every now and then. The next day he was fine, this morning he was fine, I was gone all day but when I got back he was hiding in the bottom of the tank. He came to greet me but shortly after he did that twitch spazzing out thing repeatedly and went back to the bottom to hide.
I have a new light (current usa satellite plus pro), its powerful so I dimmed it a bit. He did not come out, even when I call him. I tested my water and it is normal. I typically have good water and it got a 30% change yesterday. My tank is quite clean.
I checked for signs of Ich and Velvet but I don't notice any, it is hard to see when he is hiding. I added just under a table spoon of salt, I raised the temperature and I am trying to get it to 86 degrees. I also added 1/2 the recommended dose of bettafix and 10 drops of Prime.
I want to add that I have added some Seachem fertilizer products which include Excel, Flourish advance, Flourish trace, and Flourish Iron today. I normally just use Excel and every now and then as well as Flourish once a week.
Any ideas what is going on? I have no lights on for the night. My shrimp seem healthy. I did not add food today and will not add food tomorrow.
Additional things I would like to note, the light is new and ever since I got it I notice tiny white worms on glass, its not a lot but I frequently remove them ( I think they are the harmless type ), I also notice some cyclops and copepods (which my understanding is it is a good indication my water is healthy) this is why I did not feed today. Normally I hand feed him so there is no extra waste, but my algae is low so I have been adding shrimp pellets and I got the light to help maintain some algae of the snails and shrimp. I suspect my worms are from excess shrimp food.
Thanks in advance. We love our betta and me and my daughter would be devastated if he dies!
2 days ago I noticed him spazzing out every now and then. The next day he was fine, this morning he was fine, I was gone all day but when I got back he was hiding in the bottom of the tank. He came to greet me but shortly after he did that twitch spazzing out thing repeatedly and went back to the bottom to hide.
I have a new light (current usa satellite plus pro), its powerful so I dimmed it a bit. He did not come out, even when I call him. I tested my water and it is normal. I typically have good water and it got a 30% change yesterday. My tank is quite clean.
I checked for signs of Ich and Velvet but I don't notice any, it is hard to see when he is hiding. I added just under a table spoon of salt, I raised the temperature and I am trying to get it to 86 degrees. I also added 1/2 the recommended dose of bettafix and 10 drops of Prime.
I want to add that I have added some Seachem fertilizer products which include Excel, Flourish advance, Flourish trace, and Flourish Iron today. I normally just use Excel and every now and then as well as Flourish once a week.
Any ideas what is going on? I have no lights on for the night. My shrimp seem healthy. I did not add food today and will not add food tomorrow.
Additional things I would like to note, the light is new and ever since I got it I notice tiny white worms on glass, its not a lot but I frequently remove them ( I think they are the harmless type ), I also notice some cyclops and copepods (which my understanding is it is a good indication my water is healthy) this is why I did not feed today. Normally I hand feed him so there is no extra waste, but my algae is low so I have been adding shrimp pellets and I got the light to help maintain some algae of the snails and shrimp. I suspect my worms are from excess shrimp food.
Thanks in advance. We love our betta and me and my daughter would be devastated if he dies!