I say change the water first because water is usually the first area of a problem when it comes to fish. you can see your fish and you know what is normal for it and what is not normal. Some common Betta fish illnesses can be found here: Read through the whole thing before jumping to a diagnoses. IF s/he continues going to the surface with all of that fresh water and fresh air, then there may be other water issues or your old water is really bad. Then sit back and observe and see what the fish does. Adding a little bit at a time slowly and gently until the bowl/tank/sink/toilet tank, whatever the fish calls home is full. Then SLOWLY add the fresh, room temperature, out gassed, oxygen enriched fresh water into the holding tank. Then Stir the water you have in reserve vigorously enough to mix in air with the water but not so fast/hard as to slosh the water all over - give it about a two minute stir (more than enough to incorporate air into the water). This requires filling a bucket with fresh water and letting it stand for at least 6 hours (to reach room temperature and to outgas chlorine and other chemicals added to tap water - if you have a well then 2 hours may be long enough).Īfter the time above, then you remove about half the water in the tank usually by using a cup or something and pulling off a little bit of water at a time so as to not scare the fish to death. OR there is too much ammonia, nitrates, nitrites, etc.įor both (to test to see if either is the problem) you can purge your tank. Staying near the surface usually means (for fish) that there is either not enough oxygen in the water, which means you need to stir the water up (with a falling bit of water from the filter or by pumping bubbles into the water - both are used to aerate water). Stinks how? fish smell or old rotting fish smell? The smell of poop or the smell of old stale water in need of a flush?
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