Why Does My Betta Fish Gasp For Air
I ve had my female betta fish for about 4 months now and she s usually pretty active swimming around in her big tall vase of a tank.
Why does my betta fish gasp for air. Why does my betta keep coming up for air. Worried but thinking that maybe he just got spooked for. He s always been very energetic and he lives in a ten gallon tank with the water around 78 80 degrees.
Why is my fish coming to the surface to breathe. Also just a tip always use a filter in betta tanks. Some tricks and toys to entertain your betta.
The reason they are at the surface trying to breathe is due to a. Usually aquarium fish happily swim and hang out at different depths of the aquarium. But now she lies down on the bottom on the rocks and only comes up every once in a while for air then it seems like she sinks back down to the bottom in almost the same spot.
But i just changed my bettas tank water granted its been a while since i changed it and when i put it back in she kept swimming around the tank really fast and started coming up to get some air about every 3 seconds. Unlike most other fish who can only draw oxygen from the water using their gills betta fish have an additional labyrinth organ which works very similarly to a set of lungs. Your fish are not trying to say hello they are trying to tell you that they are in survival mode.
Your betta fish is just being a betta and no harm is happening. Two days ago he didn t come up for food and hid when i was feeding him and the guppy he lives with. I ve never had any problems with him whatsoever.
Betta fish can breathe through their gills and go to the surface to gulp air. They help eat up the ammonia produced by the fish and keep the tank cycled. Theyre also able to survive out of water for a for.