hey guys....
as I got up today and went over to the tank to give my rasboras their daily flakes, I noticed that one of them was floating upside down at the surface, dead.... one who was just barely alive was floppings next to him.... a quick search through the java moss revealed victims number 3 and 4....
It all happened last night, apparently, with bascially no warning, except that last night I noticed they were swimmig slowly in one spot at the surface... it looked strange, but they were otherwise healthy looking so I ignored it... I just cant figure out what happened. there are no obvious marks or spots anything on them, the bodies looked perfectly normal.... parameters are fine, and my betta looks perfectly healthy and is swimming around as usual. the only lead i've got to go on is the possibility of a swim bladder disorder... 3 of them were pretty old and were a good year or two of age, but a new, young one I just got also fell prey to whatever this is, so im pretty sure it wasn't just old age.... does anyone have any idea what happened here? im really bothered by this.... they were valuble members of my community for almost 2years.... I was actually thinking about downgrading to a 2.5G for my betta, I guess now i've got nothing to stop me...
as I got up today and went over to the tank to give my rasboras their daily flakes, I noticed that one of them was floating upside down at the surface, dead.... one who was just barely alive was floppings next to him.... a quick search through the java moss revealed victims number 3 and 4....
It all happened last night, apparently, with bascially no warning, except that last night I noticed they were swimmig slowly in one spot at the surface... it looked strange, but they were otherwise healthy looking so I ignored it... I just cant figure out what happened. there are no obvious marks or spots anything on them, the bodies looked perfectly normal.... parameters are fine, and my betta looks perfectly healthy and is swimming around as usual. the only lead i've got to go on is the possibility of a swim bladder disorder... 3 of them were pretty old and were a good year or two of age, but a new, young one I just got also fell prey to whatever this is, so im pretty sure it wasn't just old age.... does anyone have any idea what happened here? im really bothered by this.... they were valuble members of my community for almost 2years.... I was actually thinking about downgrading to a 2.5G for my betta, I guess now i've got nothing to stop me...