No worries. Sometimes wild bettas are just weird. Some of mine I don't see for a week or so, and then they pop out like they haven't even been missing.
Good luck with your boy. Hopefully you see some improvement.
Honestly, none of my wilds like bare bottom tanks. My persephone looked incredibly pale when they were in a bare bottom grow-out and then when I moved them over into a tank with peat moss as the substrate, the males turned black and blue almost immediately.
It may be a combination of the slightly harder/higher pH water, the lack of substrate and a lack of tannins (sounds like you are not really big on tannins?) is contributing to the shyness.
I wouldn't take out everything but the heater unless you have tannin heavy water and a dark bottom or substrate, as that would most likely be stressful as you've said.
I think give the peat a try. I never even look at the feces of my wild bettas as they live in a semi-feral existence haha and the only health issue I have is with velvet.
Have you ever thought of using peat moss as a substrate? My wild bettas absolutely love it. I just soak the peat moss in boiling water so it sinks, and then drop a couple handfuls over the glass bottoms of my tanks.
It's odd he is still so shy. I sometimes force my shy fish to interact with me by putting in nothing but the peat moss and a couple of IAL to hide under if they want. Then the only food they get comes from me with my tweezers. Usually that food is a big juicy blackworm just wriggling away.
Unimaculata complex are extremely friendly and my unimaculata are always out. You just need to cling wrap the entire tank, cover that with a piece of bulletproof glass, seal that with padlocks and then brick it all up behind a wall to stop them from jumping out haha.
ok yea that a good idea, only 4 tanks huh hehe :) at the moment i have about 25 spawns of bettas, was over 30 spawns but some got eaten back by the fathers lost a few to the fathers geting ick so the othe 25 spawns r doing ok for now some spawns only have as little as 4 fish to 100s of babys so i'm trying not to be picky with them
Hi. No I tried using Seachem Stability with no luck. only thing that worked was time and it def. helped to take out the stock in the tank.
Also I was wondering, I wanted to start a ten gallon community tank with a betta and I wanted to get some Kuhli loaches, How many can I get for a ten gallon tank?
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