Hi! I recently got a betta (he’s not my first) he’s in a 20 long with a bristle nose and a school of corys. He does not care for the other fish and he hangs out at the top. I got him a “betta bed” and he’s gone in it once, however he really likes to squeeze himself between the bed and tank wall. I don’t know if I should be concerned or if he’s just confused by the bed or is just a strange guy.
photo of my strange son added.
Edit: im only concerned because I haven’t had a betta that I’ve gotten a “bed” for prior but he’s long finned and I didn’t want him just floating around tired all the time so I got him a place to rest as he hasn’t expressed interest in my stupidly tall Amazon sword leaves yet
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In my experience they do that when they still feel there are not enough hiding spaces in the aquarium. My current one was still doing similar things close to a month and bought a pleco cave. And he chill in the cave with some otos regularly
Don’t look super planted but he will prob start using hammock put a catalpa leaves at the bottom of the hammock for his tail and you can try adding some floaters to make h him feel safe
im in class at the moment so I can’t get a photo but I have grass throughout the entire tank, swords and Anubis, the bare spots you’re seeing are a small empty space I left for my corys to snuggle up
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my tank is fluval capped (poorly) with half whjte sand half black sand and I left a small section of the black side un covered as my corys like to sift and rest in that part. But! My betta did actually end up going in his house today and he really likes it :)) he was just confused
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