daft beta.

[Tener ds]

my betta is a bit daft.he was seen last night by my boy diging out some food that had been pushed under some slate.
now he has a bit of skin/scales missing between his eyes.he still eating and swiming ok,should i leave him be or treat him in a Q tank?

 

[GrubbyGirl]

Pop some melafix in for a few days. that will stop it getting infected and it should heal in no time

 

[Tener ds]

had a good look at him just a min ago,the patch has started to get smaller and is no longer white,very light blue now.havent even treated him yet....
ps.
would he eat a dead neon tetra?
we had one with a strange belly yesterday and now we don,t.
we do have a small head,wots left of it, and half a small tail floating around the tank....
ill suck that up soon.

 

[GrubbyGirl]

Any fish will have a chomp on a dead tank mate. I recently did a head count on my community tank and I appear to be a blue ram down - never found a body!

 

[Tener ds]

Any fish will have a chomp on a dead tank mate. I recently did a head count on my community tank and I appear to be a blue ram down - never found a body!

same here,when we got the neons we had 10 small ones.there now bigger and we only have 8 left.never found the first lost one.:cry:

 

[Tener ds]

ok,im getting a bit conserned now.ive just fished out a half eaten/or just rotted,neon tetra.thats 2 gone in just over 1 week :dk::cry:
all the others look ok.
do they not live long these fishes?
done a water test again,all ok,and the fish get feed 2 times a day.

 

[Irene0100]

keep water very clean, best way to avoid any illness.
neons should live for 2 or 3 years, but the betta might not. depends what sort of betta.
i used to have a siamese fighter betta spledis i think, they only live for about a year but happly ate all my baby guppies.

 

[Tener ds]

the betta is fine now but im wondering if its the "seachem flourish excel"i,m useing thats harming the neons,:dk:
even tho i,m follow the directions to the letter,even a little less.
i do 10% water change every day in this tank too.i have noticed that they seam aggrissive to each other,chaseing each other round the tank and even nipping each other,well thats wot it looks like.i will say they are nearly an inch long,may be close to there age limit..:dk:

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
If the Neons are showing a lot of aggression it may be that some are weaker, and these will be picked on a become stressed and more likely to die. If you can break up line of sight (more plants?) it may help as it wil give the weaker ones somewhere to hide, so they are not being continually harrassed.

cheers Darrel

 

[Tener ds]

Hi all,
If the Neons are showing a lot of aggression it may be that some are weaker, and these will be picked on a become stressed and more likely to die. If you can break up line of sight (more plants?) it may help as it wil give the weaker ones somewhere to hide, so they are not being continually harrassed.

cheers Darrel

ha,funny u should say that,ive just noticed 2 neons missing......
found them at the back of the tank swimming around the java ferns.
they all seam happy and together when i feed them tho.