Just Bought A Crowntail Male Betta. Have Some Questions.

Hi! I had another thread about keeping a fantail goldie, and a black moor in a tiny 1.5 gallon tank. (Horrid I know) Me and my husband took them back because we really don't want to be mean to a poor fish, and want to be the best fish owners possible.

So, we bought a Crowntail Male Betta for our fish tank. We completely washed (not with soap, hehe) the tank and the plants and bought a new filter and gravel for it.

We also bought a heater and the special dechlorinating stuff for Bettas.

We have some questions now.

When we bought our new fishie, he was (and still is poor thing) in this little plastic bowl thing that had a lid (which we took off) with a hole in it. The water is disgusting that he's in.

We have the heater in his tank warming up the water.

So my questions are:

Should we wait the whole 24 hours to put him in the tank?

Because: The dechlorinating liquid which is "Tetra BetaSafe" that we got says it works in seconds. And also, the water that he's in currently is only room temperature. So it's about 70 degrees F. And his tank is eventually going to warm up to be 78 degrees F.

So if we take him from water that is 70 degrees and put him in 78 degree water, won't that hurt him or something?

Right now the thermometer says that the water is below 68 degrees. But should we put him in when it's about 70 degrees?

Thanks in advance for your answers!

rich311k said:

I would get him out of that cup. The difference between 68 and 70 is minor so I would move him soon. You will want to acclimate him to your water. Put him in a tuperware bowl and add a little water from the tank every 5-10 minutes for about an hour and then transfer him.

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Thanks! Also, we have aquarium salt which we bought for our goldies, because Petco said it was good for gill function. Would it also be right for the Betta too?

It's freshwater aquarium salt though. It says it's for freshwater.

Will the salt hurt him?

Thanks for all the feedback guys.

We moved him into his tank last night and he seems to be a lot more happy with his new environment. Poor thing. It's so inhumane for Petco and other stores to keep those bettas in little jars like they do. When we went there, a lot of the fish were dead and decaying even.

Another question though. While he was still in his jar, I fed him and he ate happily.

And last night I tried feeding him again in his tank but it seemed the filter was blowing the food around so he couldn't eat it.

So this morning when I fed him I turned the filter off. But he still doesn't seem to find the food or be interested in it. One or the other. Is this normal?