Why can my betta fish swim and why has he stopped eating?
Sounds to me like constipation perhaps. Can lead to swim bladder but usually it can be fixed. Do a 50% water change every day for the next 5 days and feed him one frozen pea, cooked and skinned (the outer case of the pea removed). Pea’s are probably the best cure for constipation, when I first got into keeping fish, I fell for the over feeding spell… as its all they seemed to do, EAT. And soon found out the hard way that’s bad! So I checked online and found out that pea’s help. Not just to aid passing of waste, but as a supplement for food too. Mash one up and place it in the tank. If he eats it, watch for any waste produced. Bettas are a strange fish in that they can actually take air from the surface and retain in (as a whale would for example) and use it as they need to, so coming up for air is a natural thing for them if the tank isnt oxygenated enough. However with some fish (due to their selective breeding) can get stressed out by this. Do you have surface agitation? Can you ma
