About treatments for your fish

I just want to say that if you enjoy watching your beta fish swim around the tank/bowl, if you enjoy watching it move, etc., then you shouldn't do any of these "treatments" as described in previous posts.

Your fish will more than likely not be the same after a treatment. They are very sensitive fish and they just can't see to take much in terms of these kinds of things.

So if you're considering poking / depriving oxygen / chasing / or any other related behavior, think carefully about the consequences.

The fish is pretty to watch swim around. I'm willing to say that if you do something to the fish, you're going to wish you hadn't done it later. And, you can't take it back. Sometimes, the fish will never recover. Then, you may want to repeat the same or related behaviors again with the fish, which will certainly result in the fish's untimely death.

Then, there will definitely be no way you can take it back. So, just think about these things before harming your betta fish in any way. It would be best, like I said, if you did none of these things at all, and just left the fish to swim as it does and live life in a normal everyday way.

You don't really have to "wonder" how the fish would feel / react if you did x or y or z to the fish, chances are, it wouldn't be as good as it was before. It's that simple.

Fish have a lot of energy although they don't always use it, they can be very energetic when swimming away from an attack, or trying to escape. However, that will deplete their energy and also weaken the fish's defenses, that means the fish will have less energy and less resistance later towards a future attack.

This will eventually lead to the extreme weakening of the fish, to the point where it can barely swim around. You may see a fish like this swim in short bursts, swim slightly on one side, something like that. If a fish is swimming on one side, that is really bad, and the damage I would say is probably irreversible at that point. Then, you might feel like you want to end the fish's life and put it out of it's misery. The idea is to avoid getting to this point in the first place.

So that's the advice I have for you this evening.