Betta Constipated?

I think frank mainly hangs out in alt.aquaria - you can find him there.....

Thanks for the newsgroup jump.

No Epsom salts in the immediate neighborhood (called a couple of neighbors) but I've got a post-midnight cola run scheduled for tonight, so I'll pick some up then, and see what information the web has to offer for dosage.

Pessimistic as in 'goodbye, little fish'? If so, yeah, me too. Still, gotta give it a try.

Right on the dose.

Let NetMax know if it works, ....................................................... ................... ....................................................... ....................and me if it don't...grin.

I had a female Betta that had the fat belly for two months. Everything else was normal. Her eating habits and her nipping habits were all the same. The other day I'm relaxing watching the tank and she's swimming about normally like nothing was going on and then all of a sudden she dropped dead right before my eyes. In all the years I've had fish I've seen them dying, I've found them dead or whatever but never saw one actually drop. It was like a heart attack. Fine one second and then she just dropped to bottom dead.

So the morale of my story is that bloat in a Betta is not a good thing.

yup, that is exactly what happens. Everything seems fine except for the swelling until obviously something internal ruptures and the end is very quick.