Last night my mom decided that I could have her betta. She had been keeping him in about a .5 gallon tank with no heater, filter or anything like that for 4 years. He was pretty much dead in it. I kept telling her to get him into a good cycled tank but she refused. It disgusted me. So she finally was like ' you can put him in one of your tanks, he's pretty much dead in mine.' So I took him and put him in my empty 10 gallon. When he was in his small 'tank' he would just lay on the bottom of it, but have his body tilted up a little... now he's doing the same thing in my 10 gallon, just laying on the bottom and can't really swim, he'll go to the surface to get air, but sinks back to the bottom, like he's too weak or just can't swim.. looks as though he's dieing, but he's been like that for months... do you think he'll get better on his own, is there something I could give him to fix whatever problem he may have, or is the damage already done?
