well its more the water than the actual fish, my male betta got Pop-eye about a month ago, he recovered about 2-3 weeks ago, but the problem occured (at least i noticed it) about 1-2 weeks ago , the problem is the ABSOLUTLEY HORRIBLE SMELL! it is simalar to the smell of a snunk i guess, i cleaned his tank yesterday and within a few hours, the smell was back, It is smelling up my whole room up so PLEASE help my figure out what this is! the 2 things i can think of is either 1 the pop-eye or2 i changed his food about a month ago he is now on Hikari,i will take the water in to be tested tomarrow and see what they say! but for now, do you have any ideas of what this could be? ever hear of this before? please help me!
2007-04-20 17:25:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
I clean his tank once a week and did not give him any medicine execpt a little bit of extra from when my old fish got sick, he pretty much healed himself :) he does unfurtulatly does not have a filter becuase he is in a 1.5 and i am still trying to find one small enough for his tank :)
2007-04-21 04:56:29 · update #1
It wouldn't be from the pop eye, but could be because of medications you might have used o treat the problem. Often it's not so much the tank that gets a bad smell, but instead the filter. If you have a filter on his tank, clean it and replace the carbon, that should help a lot.
Do have the water checked, ammonia can smell really bad and is of course very bad for the fish.
Hope you figure it out
MM
2007-04-20 17:39:15 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To add on to a previous answer, if you treated for pop-eye, you probably used an antibiotic, and this destroyed your bacteria in the tank/bowl. This will prevent the ammonia in the water from being converted to nitrite and nitrate as quickly as it may have been in the past, so that might be the cause of the smell. Since the bacteria are disrupted, you'll need to do more frequent water changes while your tank cycles again.
2007-04-20 17:46:54 · answer #2 · answered by copperhead 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-28 14:37:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take him to the vet..he might have a series disease..or just accept the fact that you might lose your beta fish..hope it works out
2007-04-20 17:37:21 · answer #4 · answered by Pearl 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
mabe it is his food he could be getting sick
hope he fells betta!
2007-04-20 17:29:53 · answer #5 · answered by Tabitha 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋