Betta Fish Diseases

Betta Fish Diseases

Constipation

While not a disease as such, constipation is common in Betta fish. If your Betta is suffering from constipation you can usually tell from these symptoms;

Poor appetite.
Swollen stomach.
Lethargy - little activity from your Betta.

Constipation is a common occurence when you have overfed your betta with dried foods like pellets, flake foods or the freeze dried types like bloodworms or brine shrimp.
While pellet food is fine once in a while you must provide your Betta with a variety in his diet. Betta fish in the wild eat "live" food, such as insects, so to keep your betta healthy and regular you should feed it live or frozen (not freeze dried) real food as often as you can.

Treatment;

To treat your constipated Betta, stop all regular feeding. In place of this feed it a small peice of cooked skinless pea. This is all it should get for 24 - 48 hours. If it refuses the pea then still do not feed your Betta anything else for this alotted time period as this time is needed to clean the fishes system out. If it eats the pea you should begin seeing deposits on the tank bottom and your Bettas stomach should show a reduction in swelling.

Unfortunately this is all you can really do for a constipated Betta. The peas roughage will slowly clean its system out and failing that you can only be patient and not feed it until nature runs its course.

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