Siamese Fighter Fish 'betta'

[FishBoyMan]

Hi their, I recently purchased a hexegon tropical set up, I had it running for about 4 weeks
without introducing any fish, I've purchased 5 Neons and 1 male Betta Bright Red.

Lately he's been hiding away in the ornament and hes lost his bright color quite grey around the gills
almost gone a orange tinge and seems depressed. I tried putting a mirror infront of him to make him flare,
but he was'nt interested his fins are curling up like paper rolled up is this some kind of bad bacteria?

Ive had water Ph tested and purchased Nitrate Ammo and stress syme + water ager

I feed them blood worms half ice block a day

 

[Truck]

Right, first of all you are now in a fish in cycle situation which means you're going to be doing 50% water changes for the next 4-6 weeks, buy yourself some salifert test kits (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and PH) and test daily as soon as you get an ammonia or nitrite reading above 0.25ppm do a 50% water change.

Normally keeping Betta's and neon tetras is a no, but it can work, as long as there is no fin nipping going on things should be fine.

If his fins are curling it is probably some form of illness such as finrot, I'm not 100% sure though as I've never had to treat for a disease.

The nitrate ammo, the stress zyme and the water aging products are not necessary, they don't work.

As for blood worms, don't feed them daily, keep them to a once or twice weekly treat and feed your Betta pellets such as Hikari Betta Bio Gold, and your neon tetras flake food or micro pellets.

 

[FishBoyMan]

thanks ill try that