Betta Glass Surfing Community Tank

Calming a glass surfing betta i ve had neurotic fish that won t stop swimming and glass surfing and usually they just take time to grow out of it but it s distressing for me to watch and sometimes takes almost a month which i can t imagine is much fun for them either.

Betta glass surfing community tank. I wouldn t worry to much about the glass surfing he may just be an active fish. The second i turn off his tank light he swims through the middle of his tank and is a million times more calm. Find out why bettas and tropical fish do it and what you can do to help them calm down.

Ammonia nitrate and nitrite are all 0 ph is 6 6 and the temperature is 80 f. You can also expect glass surfing to occur when anything new happens in his tank as well such as a water change decoration changes new tank mates and even when people stand close to his tank. I wanted to know if this is a sign of something wrong or stress.

The tank is a divided 5 gal where he can t see his tank mate who hasn t been in the aquarium and is instead in a hospital tank. Hi fishfur glass surfing is when a betta or any other fish i guess basically paces frantically back and forth against the glass walls of the tank. There are lots of different reasons a betta may glass surf.

Or it could just be stressed out. I have a koi plakat he s from petco and he s been glass surfing since i got him 2wks. The water parameters fluctuate between 0 25ppm ammonia 0 ite and 5 10 ate and the water temp stays near 80.

Betta glass surfing in itself isn t going to be fatal however the underlying conditions that are causing it could be. I never see him glass surfing when it s off. Betta glass surfing yesterday i picked up a elephant ear male betta and he seems really healthy and active but he glass surfs goes up and down the sides of the tank pretty often.

He is in a 10 gallon tank water parameters are fine. Can glass surfing be fatal. Glass surfing or pacing is a behavior where fish swim up and down the sides of the aquarium glass.