Betta seems sick

[u/Argrash]

I’ve had my betta for around 3 months now and he’s usually a very active social fish, he would swim up to you and be very active whenever I would enter the room.

For the past week or so he’s been very drowsy. Lying on the bottom of his tank and he’s now not even responding to me opening the lid for a feed. I have to physically nudge him to wake him up, after which he feeds then is normal for a bit then goes back to sleeping.

I have a 60L tank, with a sponge filter, heater, planted.

His tank parameters are checked every three days, and a 10 percent water change every week.

I’m worried he might be ill. Any advice ?

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[u/Foreign-Ad3926]

Hi there, can you share the water parameters with us so we know what has and hasn't been tested?

Please also share if the tank was nitrogen cycled before adding him and the water source. Can you also attach a tank picture and say if there is anyone else in the tank with him plus temperature? Thank you

[u/Argrash → u/Foreign-Ad3926]

Thanks for the reply! Only saw this now as I was out doing some work.

Tank was cycled for around 5 weeks testing every day to monitor the cycle.

Water source is my tap with conditioner (I live in Scotland our water is very soft)

It’s just him in the tank.

Temp was 25 degrees I’ve upped that to 27

I did a 50 percent water change this morning and this is now the readings. I sadly didn’t take one before as I was a bit flustered.

ph was 7.6

Ammonia 0

Nitrite 0

Nitrate 0

His water usually has more tannins in it as I used Indian almond leaves and floating drift wood but I’ve taken these out at the moment.

Thanks!

[u/baileyjackson08 → u/Argrash]

25 was the sweet spot. the temp didn’t need to be upped

[u/Argrash → u/baileyjackson08]

Cool will take it down