I want betas. Plain and simple. However I don't want to spend like $50 on one of the eclipse systems, and to keep them in the little tiny glass "beta enclosures" seems cruel. Not to mention that even if I set up some sort of filter, I am knowingly shortining the life of an animal. I get disgusted everytime I run across one of those "Bettasphere" tanks. I drink that much water in a sitting! thats like stuffing the poor fish into my water bottle! My cat's water dish holds more! (Not that the fish would live any longer placed in there! )
So here we go...
I have a 10 gal that is curently housing the excess feeders for my catfish. He is getting moved to my 45 gal, so all his little "friends" will be going with him. I'm not worried about having him and a dozen feeders in that size tank. the 20 gal was just too small for that. Anyhow, I have this fully cycled 10 gal with a 50 watt heater, and a bio-wheel mini rated for up to 20 gal. It seems such a waste to just shut down this tank and have to start all over again when I find a use. So what I think I want to do is move it to my desk and stock it with bettas. My thinking is I could do one of the following:
1. Give one male betta a very nice appartment compared to where his poor little store-mates are bound to end up. (Heck, if we scale things up, his place would be as big as mine!)
2. Buy one of those fine mesh tank deviders and have 2 nice betta friends.
3. Same as #2, but with two tank deviders and 3 bettas.
4. Skip the deviders all together and go with females.
What do people think? I'm pretty stuck on the bettas, but mabey i could devide the tank in half and keep a betta and a small school of neons or something...
Also, I heard that bettas don't like water currents. I can see why. The bio-wheel mini I have produces a decent current for its size. Should this worry me? or will the bettas just avoid the area under the filter?
Advice is always welcome, so thank you in advance.
So here we go...
I have a 10 gal that is curently housing the excess feeders for my catfish. He is getting moved to my 45 gal, so all his little "friends" will be going with him. I'm not worried about having him and a dozen feeders in that size tank. the 20 gal was just too small for that. Anyhow, I have this fully cycled 10 gal with a 50 watt heater, and a bio-wheel mini rated for up to 20 gal. It seems such a waste to just shut down this tank and have to start all over again when I find a use. So what I think I want to do is move it to my desk and stock it with bettas. My thinking is I could do one of the following:
1. Give one male betta a very nice appartment compared to where his poor little store-mates are bound to end up. (Heck, if we scale things up, his place would be as big as mine!)
2. Buy one of those fine mesh tank deviders and have 2 nice betta friends.
3. Same as #2, but with two tank deviders and 3 bettas.
4. Skip the deviders all together and go with females.
What do people think? I'm pretty stuck on the bettas, but mabey i could devide the tank in half and keep a betta and a small school of neons or something...
Also, I heard that bettas don't like water currents. I can see why. The bio-wheel mini I have produces a decent current for its size. Should this worry me? or will the bettas just avoid the area under the filter?
Advice is always welcome, so thank you in advance.