I have two questions regarding the care of bettas.
Background: I've succesfully kept a few bettas in filter tanks (Eclipse System Three -- they seem to love it!) But I have one or two bettas in a gallon jar at any time. These bettas give me the most problems. I do a complete water change every week and partial water changes (20%-25%) half way through the week.
My problems:
(1) Somehow the bettas in the jars seem to develop brownish-red coloring on the head and around the front area of the gills. I suspected ammonia/nitrite poisoning, but I always get 0 readings from my test kits. What gives? They also appear healthy, active, and remain eager feeders.
(2) One of my bettas in the jar refused everything but Hikari Bio-Pure freeze-dried bloodworms. But after a few days, he developed a HUGE belly and then died two days thereafter. I see nothing else wrong with him when I examined his corpse -- did he die of constipation? Is it bad to feed freeze-dried worms only?
2006-08-22
10:46:39
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Brian C
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