Bettas..coldwater?
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There never has been "easy" fish, just uneducated people who care for them.
(little knowledge = less to think about = "easy" fish)
(little knowledge = less to think about = "easy" fish)
I'm not sure if hcgirl is being flippant, but:
No bowls. Bowl's can't have heaters and they'd need to be changed every three days, not every week.
Betta hexes won't bore them to death, the water will quickly poison them.
No bowls. Bowl's can't have heaters and they'd need to be changed every three days, not every week.
Betta hexes won't bore them to death, the water will quickly poison them.
You guys...betta's natural habitat are the little puddles that form in rice paddies in Southeast Asia. Thats why I've heard they can take such small size accomodations.
Unfourtunatly I couldn't provide a source, but I believe it was someone here that said that. Plus, we keep bettas in those Red Sea Decor things at work; they aren't big, (maybe 2.5G) but they certainly aren't heated. They've been there for about 3-4 months as well.
Although they may not be coldwater fish in the sense that you can throw them in a 55degree pond, you don't really need a heater for them.
Unfourtunatly I couldn't provide a source, but I believe it was someone here that said that. Plus, we keep bettas in those Red Sea Decor things at work; they aren't big, (maybe 2.5G) but they certainly aren't heated. They've been there for about 3-4 months as well.
Although they may not be coldwater fish in the sense that you can throw them in a 55degree pond, you don't really need a heater for them.
Firstly, those "rice" paddies aren't stagnant sitting water. Water flows through them from one to the other and are bigger than some people sometimes think.
Two, Southeast Asia stays fairly warm.
Three, just because they'll live like that does not mean that they should. A neon could probably live in 68F water but that does not mean that is where they are in any way comfortable. I could survive in 45 degree weather for quite some time - but I would be pretty miserable.
Four, no tropical fish "needs" a heater if you can maintain a steady, appropriate room temperature all of the time. But if you cannot, they need a heater.
Two, Southeast Asia stays fairly warm.
Three, just because they'll live like that does not mean that they should. A neon could probably live in 68F water but that does not mean that is where they are in any way comfortable. I could survive in 45 degree weather for quite some time - but I would be pretty miserable.
Four, no tropical fish "needs" a heater if you can maintain a steady, appropriate room temperature all of the time. But if you cannot, they need a heater.
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People say that they live in small puddles of rice paddies all the time. But people don't seem to stop and consider the fact that rice paddies are huge. I mean they grow enough rice to feed a huge population. Haven't people seen those cool pictures of people walking knee deep in water harvesting and tending to crops.
Bettas do best in wamer water. Saying they survive fine in cold water because they have made it 3-4 months isn't much to shake a stick at. Bettas live to be 5 plus years old in the right conditions.
Bettas do best in wamer water. Saying they survive fine in cold water because they have made it 3-4 months isn't much to shake a stick at. Bettas live to be 5 plus years old in the right conditions.
no no...
about the rice paddies.
I know rice paddies themselves are huge. That's why that little fact never made sense to me. Some puddles though...I dunno.
about the rice paddies.
I know rice paddies themselves are huge. That's why that little fact never made sense to me. Some puddles though...I dunno.
Unless I'm gravely mistaken, there are no puddles in rice paddies. A rice paddy IS a puddle; quite a large puddle.
