How to Treat a Sick Betta - Near Death Experience of Betta 

I know when the betta is flaring, it means he got mad, showing off his power. But to me, it just looks so cute.

Same happened to my betta .. I did the medication.. now it's at the stage of recovery .. fins should open up a little more.. it's lively now.. but was worried cause of it's fins and was not sure if the treatment worked .. this video helped me confirm that he's recovering well. Thank you very much !

What's with the happy music? The damn fish almost died here! XD

You realized in time 👏

Should have more subs for such a good quality vid. I'm planning on getting a Betta and I'm a beginner doing some detailed research. Any tips you would like to give for a Betta lover honorable beta sensei😁😀😁

Amazing video. I greatly appreciate you saving this beautiful little guy. God bless

Thank you for this video! My male betta fish had pop eye on his left eye, whiteness in his left eye and some disease that made him not act like he used to and I was able to catch the disease from the start and able to cure him of it within days. Now he is happy and the fins that were snipped, because of the infection, are growing. Please keep these videos going because I am an amateur betta fish hobbyist. ☺

I was afraid to watch to the end. I feared he would die. I wouldn't have been able to sleep.

great video, I'll have to re watch with a pen and paper and write a list, have one healthy (want to keep it that way) and a new rescue , doesn't look to serious, but you never know

It looks like the filter is to strong for him mabbey add a sponge or something looks like has hard time swimming but idk lol

Your betta seems happy/healthy 🐟

Hi, great video. I'm guessing you're in the UK? I had my betta go from healthy to deaths door in 2 days. I researched and discovered he had velvet. I also bought Waterlife, it cured him in around 3 days. It's absolutely fantastic medicine and not stressful on the fish. I wouldn't ever use anything but Waterlife in the future.

I have a sick betta who is bent all of a sudden and swims in circles . I did a salt bath, antibiotics, now the leaves, tried feeding a pea, he won't eat. I don't know what else to do, now he just sleeps in his log and watches us😥

Do you know what caused the fungal infection in the first place. knowing what caused it would help us to prevent this from happening.

What first aid kit do u have on hand in the case of emergency? Can do a video?

I have a blue betta named aqua. He was so gorgeous and active. But then he showed some signs of lethargy, fin rot and probably a few more diseases. I put him in a quarantine tank with some aquarium salt and almond leaves. One day after, he is getting better. Thank god!

My betta used to be very active till wed night i accidentally over fed him. Now he just stay at one corner.. not eating at all.. keep going to the surface to get air.. his beautiful red colour fading.. i just do not know what to do..

Thanks you for sharing. Just glad it was a happy ending :) Does this fungal infection have a name?

When my betta got sick w/bloat I gave him a non iodized table salt bath to cure it Course I did research before I put salt in his tank He's feeling. a lot better now 🐟🙂

My last betta had this but when I spot the signs it was too late, but now I found your video, I hope it'll rlly help when it happens to my betta

I haven't gotten any help from anyone so I hope someone will reply. I got a 2-ish year old Betta from a friend who didn't want it anymore. Noticed right away his fins are all jagged and torn. I'm pretty sure it is Fin rot and/or tail rot. I know for a fact it is a combination of several possible things. They had no heater, filter, did 100% water changes, tank is quite small, and the fake plant MIGHT be too sharp. It's not horrible but its not the softest plant out there. Any ideas how I can get his fins back to normal?

I am so thankful that you do this vlog or video because i just got a betta its 1 week from now and i dont know if my betta is sick or not. Because i just save them from the pet shop in some malls because when i saw them in the plastic cups i got so sad for the fish. And now i am thankful and i can determine right a way if my betta is sick or not. Thank you again.

My betta is lying on one side not eating his food ....inactive....and on one side there is white patch over his gills wat to do....i hv used almond leaves and all....and he poops so i think he not dealing with dropsy....wat else it cud be

Really thanks for the video, I got my first bettas, and on the second day, all of them suddenly looks too calm and when I saw your video, they are showing similar symptoms, so I can take immediate action for recovery before everything become too bad, now after 24 hrs doing the treatment they're active again, still need to learn a lot about these babies, and your video certainly help this newbie :)

I used to have a rainbow swallowtail betta that died from that when it happened I had no idea what was wrong with it but now i do because it showed the same thing that betta did my rainbow swallowtail betta lived in a community tank

I know this is bit late but i just bought a betta from pet store and i do set up led light,small river stone,water conditioner and 3 gallons of water, but when i put my betta inside the tank.he always stay at the top and not really moving. The fins also looks droppy ( idk how to describe that) may i know what is the problem of my betta?

Pretty large aquarium, cleanner water and nice care, but bettas like calm waters. Strong filters do stress them; stress weakens the immunological system, making them more suscetible to díseases.

2:32 the betta looks dead and the happy music was playing haha

I don’t know what to do to help my betta. He’s 3 years old and he’s acting very sick. Has a filter and water changes, also a heater. He used to be fine but nothing is curing him 😢

My betta fish has a case of popeye at the moment, but it is more than that - it kind of looked as if something had raked itself across the entire left side of his face - there was damage under the eye and at the gills behind the eye. I have absolutely no idea what could possibly have caused this - he's the only living thing in the tank, and none of the decorations are sharp or dangerous, so it is a complete mystery to me what happened to him. Yet, the damage is there. Given the damage to the scales on that side of the face, the popeye must surely be from physical trauma and not infection, so at least I can be sure of the nature of the popeye. I first noticed it last Friday, it is now Tuesday. He has not eaten anything in all that time. He was a slightly over-fed fish at the start - a few days prior I was starting to put him on a diet, but he was still with a little bit of a belly, so at least he started off this fast with a good reserve of fat to sustain him, but for being on the fifth day without eating, I am starting to get nervous even so about his lack of eating. I am worried there might be something wrong with the biomechanics of his mouth that might be preventing him from eating? His mouth is weirdly open most of the time in a way I am not used to seeing, and while he still blows the occasional bubble, he doesn't even *try* to eat anything. Even I put something literally right at his mouth so all he has to do is inhale, and he won't do it. I'm so worried that he can't do it even if he wanted to :( Immediately after seeing the damage on his face on Friday I put him in a smaller tank with no decorations, and completely fresh water with aquarium salt and garlic juice added. On Saturday I gave him an epsom salt bath. On Sunday I gave him a full water change with aquarium salts again. On Monday, with still no signs at all of improvement, I started with erithromycin just to be sure. Even if the popeye is not caused by infection, with so many damaged scales I am still worried about the risk of an infection. The gills on that side in particular don't properly close flush with the body, which also has me very concerned. The damaged scales at the gills have fallen away, so the gills definitely aren't being propped open by anything, but something is still preventing them from working correctly. And he won't, or can't, flare; presumably it is too painful to even try. And my little fish definitely has no vision out of the popped eye. The other eye is still fully functional, but the popped eye is zero functional. I have no idea yet whether or not the vision will be restored, as the eye is still just as popped as ever. It's not getting worse, but it's also not getting better. But most of all, I am dreadfully worried about his lack of eating. If he won't eat, he can't possibly recover. You need food to rebuild and recover from injury! He was such a vigorous and healthy fish, I am so indescribably sad to see him in this condition :( :( :(

I had a rosetail platinum betta that I paid a pretty penny for but I couldn’t save it. I quarantined it and use MelaFix. Im happy you saved yours

Hey not sure if you can see my comment but I’d like to send you a picture of my Beta to make sure it’s not sick before I travel with him. I have a really good connection with him and if he is sick I’d know to get him stuff. If not then I just got nervous and he will be my best bud for 3-5 years :)

Hi, I got my betta two days ago. Compared to my other betta he seems very shy but I now think it was illness as today he stayed in the corner of his tank. He struggled to move and his tail fin looks as though he has nipped at it (it did in the shop but not as bad) He got worse throughout the day so I have tubbed him (floating on top of his tank) and I have added meth blue to the water in the tub. Do you have any suggestions at all? I am not sure if he will make it through the night. It is so hard to tell what the illness is. The only other medication I have is for fin rot and ulcers

I left to a trip for 6 months told my roommate to change the water of my tank, it's super dirty. My Betta fish is puffy, a bit swollen, doesn't eat, is lethargic, and his scales at bit peeling. Idk what's wrong with him

My betta passed away :( it’s always hard to see these little fellas go

My betta which died looked like the one in this video. I went on a vacation for a while and I saw it dead lying on its side at the bottom of the tank. I don't know what killed it

My Beta tank's water is very dark from the natural, dried Beta Bed leaves I put in as "soft cover". It's like tea. Or maybe the dark's from the moss balls. I wanted to give him natural "soft cover", like I read. It's 3 1/2 gallon tank. The filter is not cleaning the tea-like color. I read tannins are good for Betas. My gut says I'm doing something very wrong. HELP PLEASE? ANY ADVICE, PEOPLE?

Same happens to my betta

Hi, can you please tell me where I can get an almond leaves? Do they have that at the pet store like Petco? Thanks

Methylene blue is surely awesome!

so my betta has lost some color and it’s fins have white edges and he sits at the bottom from time to time. he hasn’t lost his appetite and for some reason swims around a lot when i turn on his blue light. i don’t know what’s wrong with him and it’s been like this for about a month with salt and anti fungal treatment.

Should I partial change the water before adding another dosage of medicine?

Hey can I have some help my betta has been acting really wierd and just recently has been not swimming at all doesn’t really want food and stomic looks big he also is pale has no color what should I do he is not swimming at all

Love your video. My bettas are all rescues. I got them when they were near death. It took a lot of doctoring and all are happy and healthy now.

My betta fish that I’ve a had for a bout over a year has been acting this way!! I’m going to stop by the store tomorrow and get the anti fungus treatment bc I really love her 🥺 at first I thought she needed some time but she’s been like this for about a week .

Great effort

Very informative my betta Midas is on his second day and 1 more day then - the pea treatment. I've checked the water but he's not shown any improvements & he hasn't pooped still! I'm so upset ! 😭 and scared he won't make it until then ???🙏🏻I'm going to get him Almond leaves and that medicine considering he doesn't have ick maybe fungus internally? just a little discoloration. He's a black orchid crown betta 🧡🖤 He'd give Eskimo kisses close to glass without a flair excited for food & loved going through his little ring for treats, doing his tricks🥺😭 Thank you for helping all of us here!👊🏼❤👍🏼🙌🏼

Congratulations ...hope mine rexovers

I had the same symptoms on my betta, but unfortunately I was too late to detect it I only have indian almond leaves that time i don't have the anti-fungal medication

I already put anti fungus and almond leaves in my betta tank but its fin still stick each other 😢 then my betta fish did not active as before. Can you tell me how cure my fish ?

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

I like your videos💝💝

My betta is only moving to get air and doesn’t really want to move. He has cloudy eyes too. We have been using melafix on him. Any tips?

Keep water temperature at 27.7 Celsius

You overfed it I think, right away it had a bloated stomach

My betta is super sweet, like he likes people and he never flashes his fighting fins.

Hi there. So i am experiencing that my betta has fin rot and turning white on bottom part of this body right now and not that active as before. I started using almond leaves yesterday. Can I put aquarium salt and how and when should I change water?

This is so true I love this 💛😚

if its alright with you, can you tell me what's your filter called and the measurement of your tank, simply curious about it

Hi there, I bought betta fish and its first time with a betta variety. My betta is active but his fins are hurt. Once during water change he fell out of tank and to replace him to tank he fell off, some how I put him back but a little portion of his fins are torn. He is active though but I want you to please suggest me how to regrow his fins back. P.S. I kept him in a bowl glass. And add almond leaves extracted betta care too.

When applying anti fungus should it be once a day?

Can we feed the bettaa during the treatment?

Hi my betta fish is still struggling between life and death.. since 4 days my fish is not eating I started to treat it with anti fungal blue liquid and Epsom salt today it is showing little signs of recovery..if it recover when will fish eat do you have any idea?

My Bettas fins are really clamped he has swim bladder diesese but she swims sometimes he a beautiful red and pink Betta I hope he doesn’t die

Add that blue salt thing

name this music please

Mine stays at the top and does not move

Instead alomond leaves can we put any other

That was dropsy with some other problems good job for saving him this desease is fatal if you dont treat it at early stages .

Just got my beta fish a few days ago and now it’s been just sitting at the top, not really eating. Do you think this will work for mine?

If a betta is kept like it needs to be, you don’t need to isolate it, because there a no other fish in its tank.

Why couldn’t have seen this video before Mr. Blue died last night? I was told to use aquarium salt. 😢. I had him for 2 years 6 months and 14 days. RIP Mr. Blue.

Mine just died today, if only i have seen this video much early i could have saved it.

I think that’s too strong of a filter :/

It kinda looks like dropsy to me. But I guess not.

Where does one get Almond leaves.

sadly I ran out of time now my betta is dead... today

My betta fish died yesterday.. I’m heartbroken he was beautiful and sweet. He just stopped eating or responding to the medication I gave to him.. 😔💔

my bettas had that too half died and the others took weeks to recover : (

That's dropsy I think

Hi, excelent video. I got two bettas that died weeks ago, similar simptoms. at that moment I didn’t know what to do and which medicine to use. Now on i have another betta with the same signs, it seems it is recovering. The only cause i am guessing is the type of substrate, similar to the one you have. There is no problem on others with no or different substrate. Probably I don’t know the correct way to clean it. How do you do it? What do you think? thank you

We just got a Betta and it can’t swim up and it just lays on it’s side 🐠

Super bro

Almond leaf can cure toren fin of betta how many days required please reply sir pls

how to treat a sick fighter fish in bulb

I caught my beta fish with my hand will it die

Temp is too low, betta fish like 28 degrees Celsius, great job acting quickly and saving your fish! 😃

I was out of station for 4 days and could not feed my Betta ! When I came back today, the Betta is really thin with fins clumped together... He is not eating anything ...He seems very lethargic... Can I follow the same steps as you have done? So far- I have added almond leaves and a bit of aquarium salt... Since I was not sure if it was a fungal/bacterial infection, I have not added any antifungal/antibacterial solutions to the water. Any advice ??

TQ tq Tq

Mines is dead..... I couldn’t save it 😔

My betta died....

my fighter fish is looks like this sick to his tail is stick each I love my Betta fish so much I don't want my fish died I will try to saving my fish with this video. and I will give you a sub

Mine just died :(

His tank is really cold. Should be 26/27 degrees C

Music is distracting sorry 🙉

Your filter is way to strong, poor thing it may be stressing it out!

ur betta have droipsy

My Betta fish always dies in a 1.5 tank. I have to get a bigger tank.

omg the likes are 666

On the 5th day he looked dead I think those shots were from before and you didn’t want to say he died