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Betta behaving odd

15 years ago

I've had my male betta for little under a year (got him sometime in early summer) and normally he'll swim around actively and will watch me go about whatever I happen to be doing in the room. But lately he has just started floating at the top of his tank (its a simple one gallon betta vase)and sometimes turning half way to the side, I tap the glass or touch the water near him and he flips out and swims franticly around the tank. He doesn't eat the flakes i feed him (or the bloodworms i have), or he disrupts them and they float to the bottom where he wont eat them. Now I usually have a live plant in with him but they kept wilting (they weren't the best of plants to start out with being as the best i could find had bad leaves and the rest of the plant died off the same way, so i got a fake plant). Now I'm wondering, should i get a small heater for such a small tank because it is colder where i am at and the water is roughly 70-75 or so degrees on its own. And lastly there appears to be nothing wrong with him physically. Thanks for reading and helping if you can.

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