R.i.p. Casear

[Jacob Da Jew]

My male Fancy Betta Casear died this past weekend. I don't know exactly why. As the weeks wnt by, he swam slower and slower. My bad, I did not think to test the water and just thought that maybe he likes hanging out at the bottom. He was eating fine.

Then, this past week or so, he stopped eating so I got back my test kits from a neighbor and tested the water. There was 0.5 ppm of Ammonia in the water, Nitrate 0.25 and 0ppm Nitrite. I did 2 quick water changes and brought teh Ammonia ppm down to 0 but to no avail. He laid there on the tank bottom breathing very heavily and stopped moving. I had him for about 8 months.


He passed away today.


I tested the water now and everything is 0ppm.

Not to be callous or anything but can I put in a new Betta in a few days or should I clean out the tank totally? Whats the right way to go about it?

 

[SharonCC]

What size is the tank? How often do you do water changes, and how much?

 

[Jacob Da Jew]

What size is the tank? How often do you do water changes, and how much?

Its a 2.5 gallon tank and I did either 30 percent water changes every week or 50 percent every 2 weeks . The tank is filtered.

 

[newfishy]

hmm, how did you clean out the filter media, because your set up does not sound too bad, and do you use dechlornator?

 

[Spishkey]

to me the tank would be fine for another. sounds like the betta died from ammonia poisoning, even though you got the ammonia back down to 0, the damage was already done.

if the water stats are fine now, i cant see why you cant put another in, unless of course you think the betta died from an infection/parasite/disease etc??

 

[Jacob Da Jew]

hmm, how did you clean out the filter media, because your set up does not sound too bad, and do you use dechlornator?

I use tank water in a small bowl to clean it out and always use declorinator.

 

[Jacob Da Jew]

to me the tank would be fine for another. sounds like the betta died from ammonia poisoning, even though you got the ammonia back down to 0, the damage was already done.

if the water stats are fine now, i cant see why you cant put another in, unless of course you think the betta died from an infection/parasite/disease etc??

I think its from ammonia poisening. He didnt have any other symptoms. maybe he had swim bladder? I doubt it tho.

 

[newfishy]

I think another betta would be fine, only if you do a daily check on the levels. and also make sure the filter is working and running constantly. I had one that was on the way out that worked most of the time I was in the room, but not most of the night, thus I had sick fishs.