Is your betta fish too wild? Does it have too much energy, swim around too much, or generally get on your nerves? In this article, I'm going to talk about how to calm down your betta fish, and make your life easier.
Calming a betta fish can be done by administering a treatment. A treatment is a form of discipline for the betta fish, and can be performed in many ways.
By the way, you may want to consider not feeding your betta fish when you know you want to perform a treatment. This will help slow down the fish naturally.
First, I'll describe a very basic form of treatment. You are going to keep the betta fish under water for 5 minutes. You will need a watch, and a plastic fork. Everytime the betta looks like it is coming up for air in it's bowl, put the plastic fork directly over it. It should swim down or even to the bottom of the bowl. Sometimes you will need to be quick, it can sometimes muster up a lot of energy when it tries to get to the surface. Just tap the betta slightly with your plastic fork and it will swim back down. After 5 minutes, you can let the betta come up for air. The treatment is over.
This is a good beginning treatment to learn. But if you really want to weaken the betta fish, you must take this treatment one step further. While the betta is under water, take your plastic fork and tap the betta slightly near the head. This will cause it to swim to another part of the tank. Be sure to block the betta when it tries to come up for air. This is very important. Do this several times, like 7-8 times at least, over a 5 minute period. When you are done with its treatment, you should notice the betta swims with less vigor and less energy than before. This means you have had a successful treatment.
There is a more advanced treatment that involves putting a betta back in the cup you got it in from the store, and really working it over with plastic silverware for various minutes, till it almost doesn't move at all. We will leave this for a topic of later discussion.
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You are a fucking idiot.
ReplyDeleteThis is basically animal cruelty.
So what if your betta is active? it's a sign of a healthy fish and it should be allowed to swim as fast as it wants.
If you were slapped for running how would you like it?
You need to admit yourself to get mental help. Something is EXTREMELY wrong with you and there is help out there for you. It's horrible and disgusting that you would do these things to any living creature. Do it on yourself, then you can get your freakish pleasure by inflicting pain and misery on a living thing: YOU. Its cruel, so stop it and get help.
ReplyDeleteYou asshole! Somebody should take this site down. How would you like it if someone deprived you of oxygen for 5 minutes!!
ReplyDeleteMy betta fish does wall surfing in any tank/bin I put her in. She doesn't like big space, heaters, and filters. Ive been having her in a cup with no sharp objects (amazon sword, moss ball, and almond leaf) for 2 days and I feel cruel anout but its the only way I can calm her down. Shes really cute and swims normally in the cup but as soon as I put her in a nice warm well cycled tank she goes nuts (I have 5 tanks. 66g, 30g,15g,10g[male betta, tetras and shrimps] and 5g [my frys dont want to put her there.]) I think she's ill, shes all bruised up from bashing the walls and other things like crazy. I put a small cave in her bowl and next morning she had the big red bruise on her head (shes white) so I took it out immidietly. I put toe warmer under her cup because she went nuts when I put a small betta heater in. Is it because her genetic is used of being in cups? I live in Quebec its pretty cold here.. poor thing.
ReplyDeleteThis is basically dominating and scaring this fish till it's too afraid to move. This is sick. Please don't listen to this psychopath!
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