when a fish has swim bladder disease, it usually just floats at the surface or stays at the bottom of the tank, and can't move up or down the tank with ease like normal fishes do.
think water quality is the key to preventing swim bladder disease. in order to ensure that, do regular WC, and try not to feed excess food. too much bbs is not good as uneaten ones will die and contaminate the water. also, i heard indigestion is normally caused when fries swallow bbs egg shell, and not bbs itself? so do be careful when you hatch bbs too.
normally after two weeks you can try feeding your betta fries tubiflex worms already... its quite a sight watching the cute fries trying to swallow their new food and getting flung away by the resilient tubifex worm, but the determination of the fry always prevails and their growth will increase exponentially.
anyway, have fun raising up your betta fries! inital stage they never seem to grow, but after a while, they would have turned into juveniles before you even know it!
Last edited by Quixotic; 4th Aug 2008 at 15:59.
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