How To Care

Elephant ear betta doesn’t need extra care and attention. If you don’t properly care for elephant ear betta leads to many diseases such as ich, velvet, and fin rot. A disease caused by infection which is bacterial or fungal results from parasitic. A betta is sick the symptoms include dull color, decreased appetite, lethargy, and clamped fin.

Some of the parameters to consider such as PH value, hardness, and temperature. Tank water has a silently acidic pH value between 6.0 to 8.0, and the hardness of the water is between 5 to 20 dH at a temperature between 76°-82° Fahrenheit.

The main reason for the infection is poor water quality and an unmaintained aquarium setup. You should clean the tank, stabilize water parameters timely check the water and change some of the water regularly. Food is important, but if you overfeed them this causes problems.

Betta has a poor digestion system, if you overfeed them they lead to constipation and bloating. Sometimes it causes betta death. Make sure that offer your betta high quality nutrition-rich food.

When you care for elephant ear betta observe them closely; there are some signs of healthy betta and a red flag of betta. The healthy betta has a vibrant color, active and alert, regularly eats, and reacts aggressively to outside movement, unframed fin. Some of the red flags such as dull color and loss of appetite, fungus or spot on the body or mouth, listlessness, weight loss, bloating, cloudy eyes, unnaturally frayed fin, and labored respirations.

Good water quality and maintenance of the tank lead a healthy life. We suggest that regularly change the water. If you put in a large aquarium change the 20% of water every 15 days.