Betta Fish Food Sinks To Bottom

You may need to find another pellet that doesn t sink as fast.

Betta fish food sinks to bottom. A betta with this disease will either float involuntarily along the surface or they will sink to the bottom of the bowl. Sick betta fish tend to ignore food and or will always stick to the bottom of the tank. The swim bladder is a gas filled sac inside your fish.

If you are still concerned about your betta fish after reading the list of symptoms and are unable to find the cure it is a good idea to speak to a fish specialist or a vet. Other symptoms and causes can be found here. Started with floating sideways at the top so i thought it was swim bladders.

Secondly if you don t have a heater your betta might also sink to the bottom of the tank. Tends to sink to the bottom of the tank if uneaten. Hikari betta bio gold baby pellets.

Betta sinks to bottom of tank lays on his side. It helps the fish rise and lower in the water much like a buoyancy control device a diver might use. But uneaten food that sinks to the bottom of the tank will rot make the water cloudy and grow bacteria and fungus that make the fish sick.

Temperature shock is very common in betta tanks that don t have heaters. He doesn t want peas or any food i tried to give him for month. They will prefer laying around on leaves or the bottom of your fish tank.

Don t feed the betta more that it can eat in 1 2. My betta fish is laying at its side at the bottom of his tank and looks like he s. Pellets flakes live food and freeze dried food.