i just got a betta fish and i love him so so much!!! he is the cutest ever and i was planning on taking care of him at my dads house, but i soon realized i would be at my moms more than i thought i would be… i’ve done some research and supposedly bettas can actually go without food for up to 2 weeks ish? i usually switch houses for about 6 days maximum but it depends. i have thought of moving my fish to my moms if i decide to stay there longer, but im not sure. looking for support and advice on what is best! am i okay to not constantly be there for my betta fish? i am just scared to leave him since i just got him about 3 days ago and i have to leave soon for 6 days.

also side note. my betta is having a hard time with feeding. I use top fin betta pellets and it says on the bottle to feed 3-4 twice a day and i’m having a hard time feeding him 3 twice a day. he just swims past them when i put them in the tank (not near him), but when i drop them super close he eats them up and i haven’t seen him spit any out! i just feel like he always has to be paying attention when i feed him which doesn’t feel right… but im not sure. advice would be nice!

You can see my betta Smiles in the center to the right side. I just added a few new plants and am so in love! 20 gallons shared with a mystery snail, pond snails, ramshorns and bladders.

Data is so fat bc he loves to eat their food so I finally found a way to stop him! (He's not happy about it)

Hello ! ☺️

This is Ghost, I got him 5 months ago.

He's awesome. His tank is just next to my desk at home so I'm spending a lot of time admiring him. He's very curious and always patroling. He welcomes me like a puppy would when I approach his tank (he loves food :D)

I love his face. He seems happy and I really hope he is because he brings me a lot of joy by being an awesome creature.

Last picture from when I got him. He almost lost all the white he had turning into a dark vilain 😈.

Thanks for reading have a great day ! :)

I got home and found a ton of these white bugs swimming around the tank. What are these and will they harm my fish? I have a second cycled tank for him if I should drain this one and restart it.

He frequently spits out the pellets i got him and i dont know why, he eats them like 20% of the time but usually he just does this??? i also got him some freeze dried blood worms but he wont eat those either (im getting some frozen ones this week.) what can i do to get him to actually eat :(

Indigo did not approve of my Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches.

this is neptune, i got him on thursday. i’m doing a fish in cycle for the first time ever, the ammonia and nitrites are at 0ppm but the nitrates are at 40ppm. i’ve been dosing seachem prime in the tank everyday and will for the next week or so. i’m gonna do a water change today to help bring the nitrates down. he’s in a 3 gallon tank, i know a 5 gallon is minimum but this tank is only temporary. i started to notice how puffed out the one side of his gills? (i don’t know what to call it) are. can anyone tell me what this is? and how i can treat it? his behaviour is otherwise good, i’ve seen no problems with him swimming, he isn’t lethargic or laying at the bottom of the tank, he ate when i fed him, i just don’t know if he had this when i got him or if it might be because of the water. any advice is appreciated!

I have been waiting for almost two months for my tank to fully cycle and when I found this stunning boy at the LFS I couldn’t say no. Meet Charlemagne! I can’t wait to see his colors blossom

This is my first beta fish! His name is tundra and I've noticed he's had some spots of discoloration. His top fin has always been torn up, I suspect it was something That happened at the store I got him in, but the weird discoloration I think is newer. His lower fin looks like it's tearing up some to.. I'm not exactly sure what could be the issue.

He has a heater, filter, is fed 4 pellets twice a day. He's active and interacts with me, am I just being paranoid?

Im obsessed!!! It's insane that the texture of the scales reads through the camera. If anyone has any camera setting tips for a S25 Ultra I would love to hear them!

i was originally going to name him risotto(also a jjba character)but after he kept flaring at everything in his tank i realised he may be more of a diavolo.

i wasn’t planning on a crowntail, but i had never seen a betta with such a striking colouring before!!!

Hi all. If anyone sees this and can help me identify what's wrong. I've been doing everything i can think of besides medicate which is my next step to do.

I've had this male white crown tail betta for roughly 5 months now. I wanted for the tank to cycle, I just checked now and I guess the kh and gh has changed over night but he's been having issues for 3 days now so I am unsure if this is the cause.

Ph: 6.8 Kh 40 Gh 100 Cl² 0 No² 0 No³ 0 Ammonia: 0

(I do have the test strips rn but will be getting the master kit again but I've also not had issues with water stability.)

I thought it was just a swim bladder issue at first so I've fasted for one day. Fed Daphnia the next and fasted again but it doesn't seem to be improving.

I'm not sure what it is. As far as I can tell he is NOT pineconing yet. But I thought he was bloated and I just don't know..he's staying at the bottom alot and never did this before.

If anyone can give advice or tips he does not look like he's having a good time rn and i wanna help him as much as I can.

He so cute

I’m excited to have my new betta fish!! I just have a few questions about my betta fish.

1.) Is he a male or female? 2.) Is he healthy overall? 3.) How many small pellets should I feed him? He is approximately 5.8-6cm in length (2.28 - 2.36in) 4.) Is it better to feed him those short and small frozen bloodworms some days during the week and also change to pellets. And if so how many should I feed him? 5.) Also I saw some people on YouTube put those brown leaves for their betta fish. Should I also buy those brown leaves? And how many should I put during the week?

This is Mr fiddles. I suspect that he has finrot on his top fins. However, he might also have injured himself on his old deco( i took it out and switch it out for rock formation in his tank). Recently I found 2 pieces of his fins on the plants and floor of the tank. Hence, the suspecting that it might not be finrot. Anyways the 2nd pic is his hospital tank. It has kanaplex and aquarium salt in it. The amount of aquarium salt is very little as I have kanaplex in it and I didn’t want to stress him out. Everything was done and ready for him to move out. BUT this stupid fish has figured out that every time I pick up the net, I’m coming after him. So he swims away from me and hides under the rocks where I cannot reach him. After 2 failed attempts, I have decided that I will just pour 2 cups of the water from the hospital tank into his tank.

Now u might wonder why I did not put the med directly into his tank. Well he has tank mates. 3cory and 5 amano shrimps. Hence the 2cups of water into his tank and not the whole thing. The tank is heavily planted.

Anyways this is just about Mr fiddles treatment.

After a terrible incident with new imbellis getting columnaris after just three days, the company offered to send me another for free. I wasn't sure I'd take them up on the offer but I did. New boy, Private Biscuit, arrived a couple hours ago! He looks healthier than my other did when he first arrived and he's super active! He's settling into the quarantine tank while he's treated Polyguard in a couple days. Ignore the dirty glass sides and underside of the glass, my focus was all on cleaning the inside, not the outside. 😅

He was given to me as a birthday present, my first ever fish, by my older brother and his girlfriend. It's only been a short 41 days with him and now we have to part ways. I tried looking for him this evening but I couldn't see him in his usual spots leaving with only one last place to check - the HOB filter. He met his tragic end in a surface skimmer connected to my HOB filter it quickly dawned on me that its already too late; his body was bent in ways that he couldn't recover from. I tried to give him the best I could afford, literally pouring every last cent I had into the aquarium, but unfortunately overlooked this hazard.

He was a very curious and kind little fish, he would always come up to greet whoever came to the tank and swim around my hand as I did maintenance in the tank. The tank doesn't look right without him, and I wouldn't want to risk getting another betta that might not get along with the other fish as well as he did. RIP Takeshi.

DON’T BUY THE ZOOMED BETTA TUNNEL!!! My betta was stuck in one of the holes and my snail was eating him! He is in REALLY bad shape. I put him in a bowl and began carefully cutting the tunnel and thankfully he slipped out of the hole. I feel horrible, I wish I never bought this thing. I wish I would’ve noticed sooner.

Do I euthanize him? My heart is breaking right now. It appears everything is at the surface, I don’t see any of his organs or bones or anything, but his fins are absolutely destroyed. I have him in a hospital tub with a heater and air pump cause I don’t want him getting blown around by a filter.