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About Chris Robbins
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I have 25+ years of personal experience as a pet
store employee and manager in the family pet store
business. The main part of our business was
Freshwater Fish. I can answer questions on; Fish care, diseases,
parasites and fish identification, feeding your
fish, breeding and sexing your fish, setting up
your aquarium, cleaning your aquarium, and
"what`s this weird stuff in my tank/on my
fish" questions. I am not an African Cichlid expert, Plant expert or Brackish Expert. No Pond or Saltwater Questions Please.
Experience
I worked in and managed my family's fish and pet and fish store for 26 years and maintained the 35 aquariums. My experience also has included occasional in-home consultation and aquarium maintenance for my clients.
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You are here: Experts > Animals/Pets > Pet Fish > Fish > floating beta fish at top of tank
Expert: Chris Robbins
Date: 3/2/2008
Subject: floating beta fish at top of tank
Question
My wife and I bought a Beta fish from the pet store 7 days ago. He has not ate since we brought him home. 3 days ago he started hanging out at the top of the tank and not swimming very much. Now he is floating sideways at the top of the tank and not moving much. He has been like this for 3 days. We did a water change, made sure the ph and ammonia levels are safe, have made sure the temp is 78 degrees, took out the small filter we had to make sure the current wasn't bothering him, and he still is not doing well. He has not ate in seven days (since we brought him home.) We can not get him remotely interested in food and he seems to be moving less and less. Is there any chance we can save him? What else can we check? Should we bring him back to the pet store (the man offered to take him back)? We prefer to nurse him back to health if possible but don't know what else to try and we don't want to lose him. Please help us. Anything will be appreciated.
Answer
Hi Greg;
It sounds like a swim bladder problem. If he isn't eating it's very hard to treat. In bettas it is often related to constipation. It can be treated with epsom salt baths but it doesn't work in every case. Here is a web page about swim bladder problems;
http://groups.msn.com/TheBettaObsession/swimbladderdisorder.msnw
Here is a page about epsom salt baths;
http://groups.msn.com/TheBettaObsession/epsomsaltbath.msnw
You may want to just exchange him for another fish but I hope he feels better soon....
At Your Service;
Chris Robbins
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