the most active betta I know of...
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Do you have a pic of your bettas? I love seeing the variations.
He's so funny, because he seems to "play" with the shrimp in the tank. He's not being overly territorial, just likes to go for the chase. Once they stop moving, he leaves them alone.
I just got my water tested and found out it's off-the-charts hard & really high pH. I was going to try tome salt to soften it a bit, but do you know if that meeses with the shrimp? (I havn't looked it up just yet).
Do you have a pic of your bettas? I love seeing the variations. He's so funny, because he seems to "play" with the shrimp in the tank. He's not being overly territorial, just likes to go for the chase. Once they stop moving, he leaves them alone.
I just got my water tested and found out it's off-the-charts hard & really high pH. I was going to try tome salt to soften it a bit, but do you know if that meeses with the shrimp? (I havn't looked it up just yet).
This is one of the females i had. never bred this one. I think she looked cool.
This is Silver, a male i found at Petco. Really liked him. he lived for roughly 2.5 years.
This is Flash, the coolest male betta ever
And this is Angel, the female version of Flash. I bred this couple a few times.
And these were their babies that I could never raise past the fry stage..
This is Silver, a male i found at Petco. Really liked him. he lived for roughly 2.5 years.
This is Flash, the coolest male betta ever
And this is Angel, the female version of Flash. I bred this couple a few times.
And these were their babies that I could never raise past the fry stage..
I used to have my bettas in community tanks. They stayed pretty active and over-feeding wasn't a problem as mine always seemed to be slower than the others (they were housed with tetras and danios).
I hadn't had a number for my pH at the time of the other posts, but it reads 7.8 as of last check on Friday (which may fluctuate a bit with the daily water changes). It's 8.2 right out of the tap, but I have driftwood in the tank, which I know tends to lower the pH. I'm only changing about 30% of the water at a time in hopes that it doesn't get too wild in there for them.
Newman & Freshy, those are some gorgeous bettas! I have not tried to breed mine, but I also would not know what to do with all the offspring. Newman, I'm sorry they never made it past the fry stage. I wonder what happened? I have heard on occasion they they are tricky to breed, but at the same time, I used to see a bunch of people on the forums with offspring. The lfs that does the liquid test has some gorgeous onesthough. I think if I were to try to breed, it would be with "fancier" bettas than have had to date. For a short time we did have a male that started out almost a pearly color, then he chnaged to a blue/green color with white highlights. I miss him... I accidentally killed him one day by leaving his cup within the cat's reach while I cleaned his tank... It was pretty brutal.
I hadn't had a number for my pH at the time of the other posts, but it reads 7.8 as of last check on Friday (which may fluctuate a bit with the daily water changes). It's 8.2 right out of the tap, but I have driftwood in the tank, which I know tends to lower the pH. I'm only changing about 30% of the water at a time in hopes that it doesn't get too wild in there for them.
Newman & Freshy, those are some gorgeous bettas! I have not tried to breed mine, but I also would not know what to do with all the offspring. Newman, I'm sorry they never made it past the fry stage. I wonder what happened? I have heard on occasion they they are tricky to breed, but at the same time, I used to see a bunch of people on the forums with offspring. The lfs that does the liquid test has some gorgeous onesthough. I think if I were to try to breed, it would be with "fancier" bettas than have had to date. For a short time we did have a male that started out almost a pearly color, then he chnaged to a blue/green color with white highlights. I miss him... I accidentally killed him one day by leaving his cup within the cat's reach while I cleaned his tank...
It was pretty brutal.
I wanted to blame my water for the death of the fry. i don't think it was soft enough for them. i used my tap water for the breeding and added an almond leaf and some blackwater extract to help remind them of softer waters. it worked as far as the breeding went but the fry didn't buy it i guess. they never ate my microworms so if they didn't eat, they basically died from starvation. maybe if their water was to their liking, they would have eaten. idk.
Mdng, your incident with that betta and cat reminds me of one time with hamsters and my cat. i caught him in time to find hamster tails laid out on the ground where he was eating them.. two stubby hamster tails. he somehow got into the cage which was placed very high on a window. must have been an epic jumper of a cat.
Mdng, your incident with that betta and cat reminds me of one time with hamsters and my cat. i caught him in time to find hamster tails laid out on the ground where he was eating them.. two stubby hamster tails. he somehow got into the cage which was placed very high on a window. must have been an epic jumper of a cat.
cats can jump pretty high. Mine can make it to the top of the fridge from the floor, and it's a 6' tall one. you should also never underestimate the escape abilities of hamsters. I had 2 in tanks next to each other, both with weighted lids. The girl got out of her 10g tank (she must have pushed up the lid because it was intact) and crawled into his space (also with an in-tact lid). We had bricks on those suckers so our dog would not get to them, but the little hamsters managed to squeeze out. We had about 13 babies a short time later.
Beautiful bettas!
And to the OP, it sounds like your bettas is happy as a clam! My bettas swim constantly during the day and only find a spot to rest overnight.
The only "community" that seems to be compatible with my bettas is to layer them- they get the whole top half of the tank and accompany them with some flashy bottom dwellers. This makes everyone happy and the tank looks great.
And to the OP, it sounds like your bettas is happy as a clam! My bettas swim constantly during the day and only find a spot to rest overnight.
The only "community" that seems to be compatible with my bettas is to layer them- they get the whole top half of the tank and accompany them with some flashy bottom dwellers. This makes everyone happy and the tank looks great.
I have personally never noticed the "layering" of fish. (I don't have any catfish types or BNs) The bettas, angel, neons, platys and tetras seem to be all over the place. The bettas search the bottom brush for fry, but, of course, need to go to the top for air. BTW does anyone know how often they need to get a breath of air? I been meaning to ask that for a long time.
It seems my betta goes up every couple of minutes, but I think it depends on how much oxygen is diffused in the water. I remember reading that they can live in poorly oxygentated water because they supplament with air from the surface. The more O2 thereis in the water, the less they go to the surface for air. I could be wrong, but that's what I recall from a few years ago...
I have also never had an issue with bettas being on the same "layer" as other community fish. Even in my 10g a few years ago my bettas were fine with tetras and other mid- and top-level swimmers.
I have also never had an issue with bettas being on the same "layer" as other community fish. Even in my 10g a few years ago my bettas were fine with tetras and other mid- and top-level swimmers.
Same here! The only fish I have that hang in one particular layer if you want to call it that is my silver hatchets who stay bobbing at the surface and my emerald corys who stay on the bottom. I guess you'd expect that from these particular make/models.
The rest of my fish are literally all over the place.
The rest of my fish are literally all over the place.