Betta Fish Dying After Water Change
When it died i just thought maybe i didn t wait long enough.
Betta fish dying after water change. I just transferred him from one jar to another and i did the same traditional water change as always. Harassment by tank mates. I ve had a betta fish for about 4 months now.
However you need to be very careful about how you go about it. A day later all dead. This set were mollies snails and a betta.
Slight bullying so i rearranged the decor. This may be the reason you re seeing your fish dying and gasping at the top or the bottom of the tank right after a water change. I had had him in the same tank with same decorations and stuff for about a month.
Clean the gravel and perform water changes. We recently learned from a fish expert that we could have avoided this by adding bacteria into the water whenever we do a 100 water change. I use a water conditioner ant usually wait about an hour or so.
On the subject of 100 water changes they can also cause your betta to die suddenly. Some people changed 100 of the water and some others even took the fish out of the water during a water change. Betta fish can have tank mates in certain situations.
The problem is there s no real way you can get your betta to acclimatize when you perform a water change. Just like when you add a new betta to your tank whenever you perform a 100 water change your betta needs to acclimatize. To avoid wiping out the biofilter in the tank or poisoning your fish with chlorinated water dechlorinate the new water before putting it in the tank.