MVines
New Member
I've been so worried about my Betta fish recently because he had stopped eating, and I know refusing foods is a bad sign.
It's kind of a long story, but because he eats all the roots on my Amazon Frogbit, I had been rotating them in and out of another grow tank, which recently suffered an outbreak of green filament algae. Before swapping plants over I did google and check the algae wouldn't harm him. It was supposed to be okay, so I put some of the plants with algae on the roots in his tank. But then he stopped eating.
I was very confused by it because he looked fine otherwise, and was swimming around and holding himself up. No signs of fin rot or health issues at all.
And just tonight I figured it out - he doesn't want his food, because he's been filling up on Green Algae!! Crazy fish. I assume he's going to be alright then, but it would be good to hear someone confirm that a diet of green algae for a few days isn't going to harm him. ? Let me know if you have any thoughts about it. Why would he choose to eat the algae?
It's kind of a long story, but because he eats all the roots on my Amazon Frogbit, I had been rotating them in and out of another grow tank, which recently suffered an outbreak of green filament algae. Before swapping plants over I did google and check the algae wouldn't harm him. It was supposed to be okay, so I put some of the plants with algae on the roots in his tank. But then he stopped eating.
I was very confused by it because he looked fine otherwise, and was swimming around and holding himself up. No signs of fin rot or health issues at all.
And just tonight I figured it out - he doesn't want his food, because he's been filling up on Green Algae!! Crazy fish. I assume he's going to be alright then, but it would be good to hear someone confirm that a diet of green algae for a few days isn't going to harm him. ? Let me know if you have any thoughts about it. Why would he choose to eat the algae?