Hi all
I have a fish sized problem. I got myself a little blue Betta Fish after I put my guinea pig down a couple weeks ago.
He's pretty small, at least in comparison to my dad's fully grown Betta. Dad's eats about 5 pellets a day. When I got my fishy home, he was eating about 2-3 pellets a day, and I figured it was because of his size. Then I left to go to Chicago for a week with dad, leaving instructions for mom to give him 2-3 pellets a day. When I got home there were about 6 pellets in the top of the bowl from the previous evening. Mom's explaination was "well you just can't get just 2 pellets out at a time, I don't know how much I fed him!" so I don't know if he was eating while I was gone or not. I cleaned it out and then fully cleaned the bowl (no soap) the next day. Since I've gotten home (Saturday Oct 29th) he hasn't eaten to my knowledge. I've been giving him 1 pellet in the morning and one at night in hopes that he'll snag at it. So far nothing.
He lives in a glass bowl with 2 litres of water in it, glass beads in the bottom and we just got him a plant, thinking he may like to have something to hide behind. I use bottled mineral water (just like dad always has) and have fresh pellets that are the same brand as dads. He's pretty darn active and isn't loosing colour that I can tell.
Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?
Also, he keeps on sticking his head in between the beads on the bottom. I've read that they like to move things around to make the floor more flat to lay on, but that seems strange. thoughts?
Thanks so much for any imput.
Jess
I have a fish sized problem. I got myself a little blue Betta Fish after I put my guinea pig down a couple weeks ago.
He's pretty small, at least in comparison to my dad's fully grown Betta. Dad's eats about 5 pellets a day. When I got my fishy home, he was eating about 2-3 pellets a day, and I figured it was because of his size. Then I left to go to Chicago for a week with dad, leaving instructions for mom to give him 2-3 pellets a day. When I got home there were about 6 pellets in the top of the bowl from the previous evening. Mom's explaination was "well you just can't get just 2 pellets out at a time, I don't know how much I fed him!" so I don't know if he was eating while I was gone or not. I cleaned it out and then fully cleaned the bowl (no soap) the next day. Since I've gotten home (Saturday Oct 29th) he hasn't eaten to my knowledge. I've been giving him 1 pellet in the morning and one at night in hopes that he'll snag at it. So far nothing.
He lives in a glass bowl with 2 litres of water in it, glass beads in the bottom and we just got him a plant, thinking he may like to have something to hide behind. I use bottled mineral water (just like dad always has) and have fresh pellets that are the same brand as dads. He's pretty darn active and isn't loosing colour that I can tell.
Does anyone have any idea what might be going on?
Also, he keeps on sticking his head in between the beads on the bottom. I've read that they like to move things around to make the floor more flat to lay on, but that seems strange. thoughts?
Thanks so much for any imput.
Jess