Hello. Got a little question as this is my first betta, and I'd like to be the best mommy possible, sooo....
When I first brought Mango home, he was very happy to be out of the cup. He's in a 2.5 gallon tank with colorful pebbles from the fish store and lots of silk plants to lay in and a tunnel toy. For the first few weeks, he was happy and ate lots of food and swam all around the tank and loved his little tunnel.
Two weeks ago I brought him to work because the Boss's kid had a Betta named Fishy and since they were all on vacation, Fishy became the office pet. Well, I brought my tank and they ended up on the same countertop, but far enough apart that we didn't think there would be a problem. They started flaring at each other a lot and most of the time we put a piece of paper between the two so they couldn't see eachother. He was at the office for a week.
Now that he's back home, all he does is swim back and forth along the back of his tank. He doesn't lay in the plants anymore, he doesn't use his tunnel, and he doesn't even eat as much as he used to...where he would eat 4-5 Hikari pellets twice a day, now he barely gets two in before spitting them back out.
Have I done something awfully wrong by bringing him around another betta in another tank? What can I do to fix it? I don't see any fin rot or velvet or anything like that... so I don't think he's sick... unless these are symptoms of something else. Any help? I feel awful that he's not the same as he used to be...
-Brittany
When I first brought Mango home, he was very happy to be out of the cup. He's in a 2.5 gallon tank with colorful pebbles from the fish store and lots of silk plants to lay in and a tunnel toy. For the first few weeks, he was happy and ate lots of food and swam all around the tank and loved his little tunnel.
Two weeks ago I brought him to work because the Boss's kid had a Betta named Fishy and since they were all on vacation, Fishy became the office pet. Well, I brought my tank and they ended up on the same countertop, but far enough apart that we didn't think there would be a problem. They started flaring at each other a lot and most of the time we put a piece of paper between the two so they couldn't see eachother. He was at the office for a week.
Now that he's back home, all he does is swim back and forth along the back of his tank. He doesn't lay in the plants anymore, he doesn't use his tunnel, and he doesn't even eat as much as he used to...where he would eat 4-5 Hikari pellets twice a day, now he barely gets two in before spitting them back out.
Have I done something awfully wrong by bringing him around another betta in another tank? What can I do to fix it? I don't see any fin rot or velvet or anything like that... so I don't think he's sick... unless these are symptoms of something else. Any help? I feel awful that he's not the same as he used to be...
-Brittany
