New 1.5g Planted Betta bowl
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You live in Virginia... what happens to them when winter comes around?;;
as I said "I personally like keeping my bettas in my 720 gal pond during the summer"
they come in in the winter, I have 3 20 gal tubs w/ filters they will stay in
~shrug~ Different strokes for different folks as they say... but doesn't that mean that you're opening your bettas to the possibility of inbreeding by keeping them this way?
yea, I just prefer keeping them in something close to the size of their natural habitat(not saying in any way that these particular bettas have ever seen it ). and not re-creating the worst time of year in their natural habitat by keeping them in small containers.
I don't think they have a chance to inbreed.. the babies normally don't make it to free-swimming even. lol
). and not re-creating the worst time of year in their natural habitat by keeping them in small containers. I don't think they have a chance to inbreed.. the babies normally don't make it to free-swimming even. lol
I have another Betta in a 5.5 gallon planted tank at home and he rarely moves outside of the same top-left 1/4 of the tank. The Betta shown here, however, really moves about and uses all the space. He goes to the substrate and peeks under leaves, and really "seems" to be healthy. He looks much better in his .5 more gallons of water and his coloring seems better now that I exercise him daily for a few minutes with a mirror.
Dante loves his 5 gallon bow. He's all over every inch of it and constantly building thick bubble nests even though the current from the filter tends to suck them in and tear them apart. He's very defensive and protective of it, too. You so much as poke a finger to the glass and he's flaring and dancing about. I exercise him with the mirror and once I remove it and he doesn't have his reflection to glare at, he goes to chasing the neons until he's chilled out some. It's so amuzing!! I love my betta and I think I'm giving him top-notch care. His healthy, curious, fiesty behavior says it all.
Geofied: As for your algae issue... considered adding a ramshorn or pond snail to help with that? If you only have one, they won't breed. At least that's how it is with RHs, I don't know about pond snails. It might help to keep algae levels down a bit and both are small species and wouldn't overload your betta bowl.
I think a nice algae scraper would be better, you don't know how much an adult ramshorn craps until he's the only thing in the tank lol and in something so small you'd be doing more WC's(which shouldn't be hard with something that small).
not sure about a pond snail though.. they don't seem to be helping my algae problems..
not sure about a pond snail though.. they don't seem to be helping my algae problems..
