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A friend of mine had to go back to Europe recently, so he gave me his 25 gallon tank with 5 fishes, 12 gallon tank with 20 fishes and 1 gallon bowl with 2 guppies and half gallon glass vase with a single betta.
The betta is the laziest betta I've seen. Totally relaxed and spends almost all it's time sleeping, propped up against a pebble or a leaf or the glass wall. Just for a lark I transferred him and 25% of his water to a 3/4 gallon plastic tank. He swam a bit more but was still lazy. And when he swims, it seems kinda awkward. It's like a person who just came out of the hospital after an operation and recuperation of a couple of months. It looked like he needed physiotherapy.
So I put the plastic tank into my 9-gal planted tank. This tank has guppies, kuhlis and cardinals. The plastic tank floated inside and formed a barrier between the betta and the rest of the tank. The betta was unfazed and preferred to rest at the bottom of the floating tank, occasionally swimming to the side to get a closer look at the guppies.
This morning the tank sank to the bottom. The betta was still in it. A gay guppy came in and checked out the betta. Other guppies swam in later to survey what was going on. I decided to tip the plastic tank over and dump the betta into the planted 9-gal.
About an hour later I see the betta is making some effort to swim around. Not sure if he is motivated by the guppies swimming about or because the environment is better. Either way, there is some progress. He'll swim about for 5 seconds, then rest on a leaf for 10. Swim 5 seconds, rest 10 seconds.
Hopefully this is kind of a like a physiotherapy for him. Has anyone else ever had success rehabilitating a bedsore betta?
The betta is the laziest betta I've seen. Totally relaxed and spends almost all it's time sleeping, propped up against a pebble or a leaf or the glass wall. Just for a lark I transferred him and 25% of his water to a 3/4 gallon plastic tank. He swam a bit more but was still lazy. And when he swims, it seems kinda awkward. It's like a person who just came out of the hospital after an operation and recuperation of a couple of months. It looked like he needed physiotherapy.
So I put the plastic tank into my 9-gal planted tank. This tank has guppies, kuhlis and cardinals. The plastic tank floated inside and formed a barrier between the betta and the rest of the tank. The betta was unfazed and preferred to rest at the bottom of the floating tank, occasionally swimming to the side to get a closer look at the guppies.
This morning the tank sank to the bottom. The betta was still in it. A gay guppy came in and checked out the betta. Other guppies swam in later to survey what was going on. I decided to tip the plastic tank over and dump the betta into the planted 9-gal.
About an hour later I see the betta is making some effort to swim around. Not sure if he is motivated by the guppies swimming about or because the environment is better. Either way, there is some progress. He'll swim about for 5 seconds, then rest on a leaf for 10. Swim 5 seconds, rest 10 seconds.
Hopefully this is kind of a like a physiotherapy for him. Has anyone else ever had success rehabilitating a bedsore betta?