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The tank that you said is 11"x7"x7" is not 2g it is 1.8 which makes 0.9g each. That is if you fill this tank to the brim, not accounting for water displacement by heater. As someone else has said in a divided tank the bettas need to be able to escape each other in a cave or somehting but in a...

You can divide whatever tank you want! dont forget bettas need quite a lot of surface area though because they breathe air. I know one person that has a 3' divided into 12. So a betta gets 3" x 12" x 12" = 6.75L which is 1.5 UK gallons each if the tank was fully filled. So if you had a 4' x 12"...

Arghhhh, danios seem to like attacking bettas for fun! One betta got out of his divider at work and the danios were like whooosh and swarmed him taking chunks out. Even when I'd put him back in they were practically drooling!!!

Spawns can produce up to 500 fry, more likely to be 100-200 but if 50% are male you would need between 50-100 jars. One uk betta breeder uses the 4' tank with bottles in it method and he raises some lovely fry!!! Guy called Dave. Lovely line of coppers... Raising fry with their food needs is...

Tetras in general can be nippy towards bettas long fins, weird isn't it cos neons seem to be pretty docile... But hey ho thats peoples experience of neons

Yep fish are completely fine being left for a week without food. They get a lot more nutritious food regularly in our tanks than they would ever get in the wild! I never recommend feeding twice a day though it depends how much you are feeding the fish. Obviously fry need lots of food though but...

Whats suspiccious about it? Sorry Its late and I dont know!

When will get a picture update?!?! It looks soo good!!! :good:

I do apologise after looking it up you are completely right on the metronidazole i think I was getting confused with miconazole. I had to know it for a unit at uni but could never separate the two. If a fish is ill then it needs treating I totally agree, what I disagreed with was treating a...

Heya Kyrielle, I just want to say WELL DONE!!! For being such a caring betta owner, you will go very far! Unfortunately plants are sold at lfs even though they aren't true aquatic plants. EVerybody has made this mistake so don't beat yourself up! The member that mentioned it was just trying to...

Yes tetras can be nippy. Unfortunately alot of what people know is from their own personal experience, so where some people may have no problems with say Glowlights and bettas I know one person has witnessed a glowlight nipping a chunk out of a betta. Whereas I tell my customers bettas may ONLY...

Clean water and slowly adding a little bit of salt should cure most things. Using meds unecessarily can further stress a fish out after going through the whole importation and fish shop scenario could be enough to kill the healthiest of fish. Metronidazole is an anti-fungal as I remember it so...

She looks lovely! Are you sure she isnt a he though?

Shes a lovely little cambo isnt she? I'd say she has CT blood as she has a little ray extension. I would say I have never seen a VT girl yet as thai breeders do not export them. She probably is a SD or pk maybe from looking at that anal fin.

On another forum you said you took 2-3 hours to warm this guy up. Not 12, 2-3. QUOTE 2-3 hours Cause of the temp in the bag(60F) and weater been 80F it took awhile to warm up, The I slowly added water from tank into bag abit at a time, til evenmtualy it was safe enough to release him into the...

Np, how is the little gal? Doing a bit better me hopes!

If you can smell chlorine in your tap water its overdosed and yes they have to treat it for public health reasons. Ahhhhh love the liquid rock of pompey! Where do you live ooh feeshy?

Wow, the tank looks really good! The cloudiness is probably from not cleaning the gravel enough, darned stuff takes forever to clean! It will eventually clear :) To make it happen faster you could put some poly wool into the filter. A bristlenose would be good, but not very responsible to be...

Unfortunately Zoe you cannot put links to other forums on here, even if you are trying to be nice :) You could link to the UK betta association website (which will link the person to the forum) Also I think you got ripped off at £83!!! You don't have to spend masses to get decent fish if you...

Keep her water pristine, add salt and treat with anti-internal bacterial meds. The most experienced guy from my shop said its caused by a hole in the swimbladder that has then got infected. The meds will sort the infection. The salt and good water should fix the hole. But he did say sometimes...

I would say its not the employees fault, so please don't blame us! :) I think it is a profit thing, as they buy them i for what 30-40 pence, so spending hours a day cleaning them out isn't cost effective for the bosses. If you speak to them about the conditions, most will change their ways...

Normally the bettas die anyway cos of all the stress. If fish die, they die... What can you do once they are dead? And by the way probably 10-20 fish die a day, but you have to do "dead runs" so customers don't see too much. Out of this I've had 2 dead goldfish in 6 weeks, so don't worry Mugen...

From what I've seen they put them out til they die... And when one sells or dies they take another one from out the back... I know some bettas have stayed in their cups for about 5 weeks... There is one guy that gives them 100% w/c every day he works (which is about 6/7) and feeds them too.

People that expect neons would generally be surprised at:- Red clawed crabs, blue crayfish, rainbow crabs, mountain shrimp, apple snails (big adult ones), and algae shrimp. Believe me I work in a LFS! :grr: What about musk turtles? eely things like spiney eels seem to confound them too...

Have a looks in practical fishkeeper issue october

I am going on sunday :)

Gogo snails has cherry reds 10 for £15 with postage £6.75 Also has tiger and bumblebee... Damn why does ebay make it so easy to spend my money???

Well, I started readin this because I have a 24 x 8 x 8 tank that I have just divided to hold some bettas. I thought it would be cool to see what someone else has done with the same tank. I love plant scapes. But I have no technical knowledge about planted tanks at all. I did go through most of...

I have heard that some bettas feel more secure in smaller tanks because it's less area to patrol... Or something like that! hehe

:wub: the HM BF yellow boy in the middle is mine :wub: I'm so excited!!!

I thought you said you had heatmats bret? Or do you use a "blowheater" as you call it. What temp is the tank at various times of the day? If the fish are in this cuboard, do they have lighting? Do they get fresh air in there, or is it totall sealed to get in heat? Brets young and I know he's...

Have you put BOTH of the levers down? Did you fill the filter with water? Does the filter DEFINATELY have power? (i made this mistake, doh!!!) Is it making a noise or what???

Right using S as the dominant single trait and d as the recessive:- SS x dd is single tail mum and double tail dad The F1 Offspring will be Sd, single tail is dominant and will show dominance So cross Sd x Sd Will result in the following f2: SS Sd and dd in the ratios 1 2 1 so as...

Yes like people don't take drugs 'just in case'. It stresses fish out, which can lead to even more problems. Maybe half dose as a precaution, or get a uv steriliser or an ozoniser. That'd be good! :) Yes like people don't take drugs 'just in case'. It stresses fish out, which can lead to even...

The bowl is right next to the bowl??? Hehe, he looks lovely. Love the tank, its different. YOur the kind of person that I love your style but couldn't think of it myself!!!

Ah so heres where the nice hmpks went :P I'm getting the marble girlies and two others :drool:

Yeah it is pretty much agreed that mirrored backs aren't a good idea. The betta will think he is in with another and flare too much, not only will he tire himself out but can rip his fins and then he would be susceptable to fin rot.

The poor baby all by itself! Its like bambi running into the field isn't it?? I'd worry why the poor thing was alone, that maybe the mommy wasnt "being drawn" anymore

Ah cool, I was a little worried as fry may have been bented too... and I wouldn't want you to have wasted your time. The matches are lovely! CAn't wait to see lovely babies all growd up!!!

I think the main thing with washing your hands after putting them in the tank is cos of the bacteria in the tank. It can get into you mouth if you then ate. I know your stomach acid rids you of some, but not all and really nasty bugs can still get through... :good: