New Betta

Kyohti said:
- What is best to feed him? A varied diet of pellet foods and the occasional live or fresh meaty treat. Chitinous foods like shrimp, waterfleas, and bloodworms will help prevent digestive upsets like bloating. As long as it has good protein content and he likes it, he'll be fine. ^_^
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Good good :) Would hate to try to get another fish to eat what he doesn't like. Starved my oscar for ages because he wouldn't eat his hikari, and ended up just folding and now he really just eats a mix of everything (sometimes shrimp with hikari stuffing lol)
Kyohti said:
- Is the black just his colour or is he ill? Normal color. He's probably the result of bad color combinations and poor commercial breeding practices. They can't all be pretty, right? At least you saw the beauty in him. :D
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hehe ah well. Was told he should have been some sort of show class fish but there was some sort of crossing going on or something is what I got when asking what the deal was with his colours. I think he is very cute though :D (though I also have Lumpy the cory lol: http://www.spodbox.org/~saphphx/WonkeyNLumpy/lumpy2.jpg)
Kyohti said:
- His tail has a bit of red line at the base, but he is really pink and you can see through him, so is it just normal? Yes. There are color varieties of bettas where half or all of the finnage is supposed to be whitish and completely transparent. This is just a result of controlled genetic variations in normal betta coloring.
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ahh cool cool. I really thought it was cool :) good to know he is normalish then :P
Kyohti said:
- What can I keep him with in a 25ltr tank? I saw that this is equal to 12-gallons correct? That's MORE than enough room for one betta!! ^__^;;
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oh good good :) I really wanted to put him in my 4 foot tank, but til the oscar moves I can't put him in there or he will be brunch :D
Kyohti said:
Can I keep a lady betta with him? Emphatically NO. They would tear each other apart at worst and plain make each other miserable at the VERY best. It's just not a good idea at all. If you want a girl for him to flirt with, buy one and keep her in a separate tank next to his. That's more than enough company for a male and female betta and breeding them is a LOT of hassle. I believe I posted about my experiences with it on the link ribishop posted, actually.
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Ahh. I'll pass on breeding them :P I have my eye on breeding simplex :) Will get him some friends of some sort when he gets a bigger tank :)
Kyohti said:
- Is sand ok for him? Probably one of the better substrates for a betta if you're going to have substrate at all. Easy on the fins, fairly simple to clean... the only one I'd strongly tell anyone to avoid is large river rock. I've seen and heard of too many bettas who 'play' in them and end up getting stuck and drown!! :eek:
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eep, will stick away from that! You don't think he'll try to get in the whole of the terracotta pot and get stuck do you?
Sammie7 said:
The plant that you have right now, I'm pretty sure, is not a true aquatic and will die and rot in your tank. Some good low light plants would be anubias, crypts, java fern, brazilian pennywort, watersprite, anacharis/egeria, and java moss. They are easy to take care of and do not need much in the way of fertilizer or heavy maintenance. Here's a site that you can look up these plants on: http://www.aquahobby.com/e_garden.php

That's a pretty betta, by the way. Not ugly to me. : )
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yeah I thought it was a spider plant at first, but I have some and while its close, the white is on the sides where the spider plants has the white in the centre. Will have a look for other plants though :) Thanks, by the way, I think he's lovely too :)

Kyohti said:
Really? It looks like a dwarf grass or melon sword-type plant to me... what makes you think it's not aquatic? I'm no aquarium plant expert, by the way. Just curious. :dance2:
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I've been looking for something like it for ages on plant sites, this one's been alive for a few weeks, except my oscar ate some of it lol.

Sammie7 said:
Are you saying it looks like this? http://www.plantedtank.net/plantprofiles/Melon-Sword-Echinodorus-osiris/1004/

or this: http://www.aquahobby.com/garden/e_Eleocharis_parvula.php
or perhaps: http://www.aquahobby.com/garden/e_tenellus.php

I don't know all terrestrial plants by heart, nor do I know all aquatic plants; however, that plant doesn't look like it's an aquatic ,to me, because I've seen so many terrestrials that look like it. Also, the plant already seems to be dying, with frayed edges and browning leaf ends.
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it looks the most like this one: http://www.aquahobby.com/garden/e_tenellus.php My oscar ate some of it, then the clown loaches had some when I moved it to another tank, but it seems to be doing ok. I took it out once and it started looking really bad. Bit weird. Most fish shops here sell them, but I've never known anyone with them in tanks, so maybe they do die out fast or something? Worth some looking into
 
Sammie7 said:
Are you saying it looks like this? http://www.plantedtank.net/plantprofiles/Melon-Sword-Echinodorus-osiris/1004/

or this: http://www.aquahobby.com/garden/e_Eleocharis_parvula.php
or perhaps: http://www.aquahobby.com/garden/e_tenellus.php

I don't know all terrestrial plants by heart, nor do I know all aquatic plants; however, that plant doesn't look like it's an aquatic ,to me, because I've seen so many terrestrials that look like it. Also, the plant already seems to be dying, with frayed edges and browning leaf ends.
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I thought it did kinda look like that last one... and if you go by initial appearances, I've seen a LOT of anachris, anubias, etc at the fish stores and ones sold online and such that arrive a little battered, frayed, brown-edged and icky-looking. Maybe it just hasn't had a chance to really settle in and start growing?

I'm just saying that just because it's not something you recognize doesn't mean it isn't aquatic or doesn't belong... unless you can say you know a whole lot about aquatic plants and can honestly recognize the reals from the fakes. It's okay to suggest that they do some research on the plant they bought to be sure it's aquatic and advise that if it isn't it might rot and cause trouble. But if someone told me, being new to aquatic plants, that a plant I purchased as an aquatic and just placed in my tank was gonna rot and foul the water, I'd probably freak out and rip it out of the tank and toss it away without giving it a chance or learning anything further about it.

There are plenty of grass-like varieties of aquatics that don't look too different from that one there when they are first implanted into a new environment. How can you be so sure? That's all I'm asking...
 
The terra-cotta hole should be fine. Just be sure it doesn't have any sharp edges if he does decide to try and squeeze through it from time to time!! ^__^;;
 
Kyohti said:
I thought it did kinda look like that last one... and if you go by initial appearances, I've seen a LOT of anachris, anubias, etc at the fish stores and ones sold online and such that arrive a little battered, frayed, brown-edged and icky-looking. Maybe it just hasn't had a chance to really settle in and start growing?

I'm just saying that just because it's not something you recognize doesn't mean it isn't aquatic or doesn't belong... unless you can say you know a whole lot about aquatic plants and can honestly recognize the reals from the fakes. It's okay to suggest that they do some research on the plant they bought to be sure it's aquatic and advise that if it isn't it might rot and cause trouble. But if someone told me, being new to aquatic plants, that a plant I purchased as an aquatic and just placed in my tank was gonna rot and foul the water, I'd probably freak out and rip it out of the tank and toss it away without giving it a chance or learning anything further about it.

There are plenty of grass-like varieties of aquatics that don't look too different from that one there when they are first implanted into a new environment. How can you be so sure? That's all I'm asking...
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One thing I can be sure of is that it looks nothing like tenellus. And yes, I have looked at a lot of the common aquarium plants in the trade, since I got into plants several months ago. As for telling the difference there are several differences between terrestrial and aquatic plants, because they are meant to live in different environments. I do agree that some plants do look very different in their emmersed form than in their immersed form, but this doesn't seem to be the case for this plant.

As for telling reals from fakes, that plant doesn't look like any common aquarium plant that I have ever seen, so it's not a question of real or fake.
Unless Saph got it from a special dealer of exotic plants, I highly doubt it is some exotic plant not familiar to the hobby.

Saph, can you take the plant out of water and take a pic of it's roots system as well? Also can it stand itself up while out of water? Most aqautic plants are not strong enough, with exception, to keep their form while out of the water, and they slouch over. Also is the the plant's "skin" thick? Aquatic plants do not have thick membranes, so it's easier to absorb nutrients through their leaves.

Also Saph, would you mind posting this in the "Aquatic Plant" section to see if anybody else that is more informed in this realm can help?
 
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Sammie7 said:
One thing I can be sure of is that it looks nothing like tenellus. And yes, I have looked at most of the common aquarium plants in the trade, since I got into plants several months ago. As for telling the difference there are several differences between terrestrial and aquatic plants, because they are meant to live in different environments.

As for telling reals from fakes, that plant doesn't look like any common aquarium plant that I have ever seen, so it's not a question of real or fake.
Unless Saph got it from a special dealer of exotic plants, I highly doubt it is some exotic plant not familiar to the hobby.

Saph, can you take the plant out of water and take a pic of it's roots system as well? Also can it stand itself up while out of water? Most aqautic plants are not strong enough, with exception, to keep their form while out of the water, and they slouch over. Also is the the plant's "skin" thick? Aquatic plants do not have thick membranes, so it's easier to absorb nutrients through their leaves.

Also Saph, would you mind posting this in the "Aquatic Plant" section to see if anybody else that is more informed in this realm can help?
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I can definitely respect that... thankyou for your information. ^___^ Question while I'm at it... I saw 'Mare's Tail' at a Lowe's as an oxygenating plant. It was holding itself upright out of water. Is it one of those exceptions... or was that not truly a submergable oxygenator for pondscapes? If it isn't, then I intend to inform them of this...
 
"Mare's Tail" is a common name which I have never heard of. Lots of different stores like to make up names for their plants. For example, Purple waffle ,a non-aquatic, is sometimes labeled as Flame Ivy, Purple Temple, or just simply Purple Waffle. Without knowing the scientific name or being able to see a pic there is no way for me to determine what plant it is.

However, with a quick Google search I came up with this: http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/m/marest15.html
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/WEEDS/horseweed.html

It seems like you are confused with non-aquatic and being able to be grown emmersed. Plants like Amazon swords, anubias, and many other plants are able to grow above the water surface with their roots in the water. Some plants will grow out of the water, where they flower: http://www.aquahobby.com/garden/e_lanigera.php
While out of the water, these plants transform. They grow thicker membranes, which leave them less vulnerable and able to stand erect.
 
25L is about 6 gal i just divide by 4
4 quarts in a gallon and a L is a little more than an ounce bigger than a quart so about 4 L in a gal
 
chaibill said:
confusing what are you a woman
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LOL. Nice, you are now in my notebook, labeled "Destroy." LOL:dance2:

Just know that Karma will come and get you. J/K

Ah, men. What will they think up next? Oh, that's right they don't think.

Oh, and "easier" would have been a better term. Why not not use technology to your advantage? That takes true smarts. Thats what separates humans from most animals, we use tools. Think about that.
 
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