Seems he's not getting air that's why he's coming out of the water.
May be lung problem? Beta can take oxygen from the air.
Julius

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Have you tried taking the lily pad out of his tank? You might want to
try that if you are confident he won't get desperate enough to jump out
of the tank unsupervised. With myself I have learned a long time ago
that fancy guppies are not very long living and that I would lose one
once in a while from something I can't see or yet understand but my
fancy guppies are still thriving mostly because of the reproduction
they do and I have to haul bags of tank water containing a ton of fancy
guppies to the lfs relatively often. Some of my fancy guppies (for some
reason almost entirely females) would end up on top of my floating baby
grass (plastic) and die there seemingly from suffocation. My solution
was to weigh the plastic baby grass down on the tank gravel. There
still are occasional mystery deaths though. Good luck - later!