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Ah;; then I suppose I'll try change out some of the water. I ordered some things that'll produce tannins today actually, I'll make sure to put some in once they arrive. I'll try feeding him some brine shrimp when he's a little more active. I mainly moved things around, but I suppose it's true...

Not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but I'd turn the light off to encourage him to rest and to make things more calm for him. Monitor him, but don't give him too much attention.

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About 3 weeks ago my betta suffered a bit of shock, possibly a mix of temperature dropping a bit and generally being spooked (I moved him into another container so that I could re-do his tank, he freaked out when I tried to carefully put him in, he ended up jumping back into the tank so I wasn't...

Not the full thing, but mine's Jae!

I'd personally hold off on nerite snails until algae is noticeable, they tend to starve in new tanks (they tend to be rather picky about the food they eat, not many people have great luck with algae wafers). And possibly only one..? They eat a lot rather quickly, so there may not be enough food...

I've heard of it killing fish rather quickly unfortunately.. Is this an entirely new betta? How did you acclimate him? Temp shock might have played into it.

If the tank temp is around 78 degrees, then yes, a heater would be just fine (they don't like cold, so it's generally needed!). Cycling a tank with a fish can be dangerous as ammonia spikes will occur, which can hurt the fish. I'm not too sure about putting in some ammonia for 5 gallon, but you...

Do you have any live plants in there? They will surely help keep the water condition good! Like others have said, I wouldn't try to keep the tetra and return him. You're right on the fact that they like having too many friends (and too much space to swim around) for a 5 gallon, a betta would be...

Sorry to hear about your fish it may have been fin rot, but what temperature was the tank?

Yes, I put a container in there an waited for him to swim into it before slowly lifting out, I tried my best to not force anything. And yeah, another person mentioned temperature shock, I think that's what may have actually happened.. when I tried putting him into the tank, I attempted to...

Im not anthropomorphizing him for having a basic sense of empathy towards my pet, especially as it's my job to take care of him as his owner. I just want to know if I could do something that'll make him even a little less stressed. My other fish got a sudden bombardment of stress due to a scare...

That would definitely make sense, I should prepare a smaller quarantine tank (for many reasons of course, this definitely encourages me though).

Yeah, I just turned on the filter after seeing that he moved places. I'm still leaving the light off, but I saw him swimming around a bit, so it looks like he won't end up having the same fate as the other guy gave him dinner early as an apology haha Thank you, rather tough that this may just...

Last time I wanted to change my fish's scenery, I didn't take him out prior, gave him a heart attack and he died. Just now, with my new pal, I decided to change the scenery. This time though, I took him out and put him in a good container and put him somewhere a bit away so that he doesn't...

Realized that this never got any replies :, ) you guys have any thoughts

Yeah it was hard to take good pictures;; I did a water change after that, I'll keep it up. And you know what's crazy? About 2 hours after I noticed this, a young woman crashed with another car and got a injury on the same spot right in front of our house! Everyone's alright, but it was spooky...

Looked at Amar today and noticed that above one of his eyes his scales are lifted, but only in that one spot. Do you think this is simply an injury? Really hope it isn't early stages of pineconing

Just like caterpillars;; they poo a LOT too. Enough to make themselves their own substrate in a jar!!

I have these guys in my tank! I was scared they'd overrun the place, but like another said, they only will if they have a lot of food. It helps that they also have to compete with ramshorns, 2 nerites, and what I thought was going to just be 1 trumpet snail but I think she was pregnant when I...