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Nice tank. You can also put the Betta in a community tank just put him in last. If not he will become territorial. I have a male Betta in my 75gal. and all is fine.

Parasites. Add garlic juice to the tank. It's great for all the fish and takes care of getting rid of parasites. You can get a jar if it at your grocery store. Also you can crush the garlic up smaller and feed some to the fish they love it.

It is a myth that fish get stunted from being in a tank to small for them. A pleco will keep growing. Do you have room in your yard for a pond? Common plecos can grow to 3' long. I have one that goes in my Koi pond every year and he is 20" long right now at 3 years old. He comes in in the winter...

No I don't have an attitude. I'm just trying to help you save these fish from future problems. 1 male and 1 female can be together only for breeding purposes and then they can do damage to each other. I'm sorry you won't take professional advice gracefully.

Ok well let us know when you have some dead fish.

Well I'm telling you as a Betta breeder that it is not a good idea. I can't believe anyone in there right mind would tell you that. Mark my words. You WILL eventually have big problems.

Rusted, did you just put them all together. If so you will eventually start having problems when the male wants to breed. He can kill the females or a the least tare them up. This really is not a good idea.

No they don't shoal.

You can have a sorority of females but never put a male in with them. You're asking for trouble mainly dead fish.

No it is not the same.

Fin rot and parasites from being in dirty water for so long. Get a jar of crushed garlic from the store. Add garlic juice to the tank water. You can even crush the garlic up smaller and feed some to him. Garlic is great for getting rid of parasites. Also every time you change the water which...

Oh forgot to say mine is a common pleco. I don't think the BN's get that big do they?

He will most definitely eat the babies. Betta's love anything that moves and can fit in there mouth. A good size for a single male would be 5gals.

Aside from my Bettas I love Plecos. I have a 13" one I just brought in from our pond for the winter.

Yes Get him to the vet ASAP!

It looks like an injury of some kind. You can put some garlic juice in the water. Garlic juice is very good for all sorts of fish ailments especially parasites.

Oh that's to funny. Would have been more fun to have cory eggs.

Next time they spawn get a razor blade and at a 45* angle or less gently scrape the eggs off the glass and stick them to the side of a 10g tank and treat with methylene blue and set air stones under the eggs so there is good water movement over the eggs. Some eggs will fall off the glass but...

Yes Cory lay sticky eggs all over the tank in bunches. I if you want to keep them and try raising them you wil have to remover either the parents and any other fish in there or remove the eggs to a different tank. Cories will eat there eggs.

Yes the cories. Danios are egg scatterers.

Ditto on everything everyone else has said. That is a terrible situation. Also you would never have any eggs hatch because the females or the male or the other fish in the tank will eat the eggs. The male will be frantic trying to keep everyone away from the nest full of eggs. But this is the...

NEVER put more then one female in a breeding tank.

Well this can go on and on and on so I'm not even going to address most of the subjects in your post with the exception of the one about other people thinking that is the way to keep there Bettas. I would hope that they would be intelligent enough to know that in a small containers is not the...

The jars I use are 1 gallon and they are changed twice a week. I have never had a fish with fin rot or sickness of any kind.I raise hundreds of fish a year When you have That many it is imposable to keep a separate tanks for all of them. This is how all Betta breeders do it and also the Asians...

Most breeders and people who show them ( as I do)use salt just as a precaution. We have at any given time anywhere between 50 - 100 Betta fry that are jared. These jars have to have water changes twice a week. I don't know the chemistry behind it but salt does cure fin rot and also helps keep it...

I never use aquarium salt in my community tanks. I do put it in the water for my Bettas when ever I do water changes on them. They are very prone to fin rot and this helps to keep them from getting it.

All of the US chain pet stores get there Bettas from Asian breeders. Asians are the biggest exporters of Bettas. The ones found in the stores are there rejects. They may not be the colors they want. they may be out bred, or old or, not good show quality that they want. This is not to say they...

I don't know who is running this contest but the pictures should be completely anonymous. Putting ID to the pictures allows people to vote for there favorite person rather then there favorite picture there for being unfair to the person who really has the best picture. I belong to 6 other forums...

Yes, yes true to what Little said.

Yes he'll be fine.

Don't worry about it. When you feed the other fish there is always some that settles on the bottom and thats what the oto will eat. Mine do fine without the waffers.

Don't know about Canada but I don't think it would be any different since the Asians export world wide.

You can fast up to 5 days and then try the pea thing. fish can live up to 7 days without food. I know one person who was shipping a Betta to a customer. It got held up in shipping. The customer received the fish two weeks later and it was still alive! I had a female with bad bloat. I did the...

DO NOT use Melafix on Betta!!!! Melafix is dangerously toxic to Bettas so I beg of you that any of you who are now treating your Bettas with Melafix do an immediate 90% water change and watch for signs of floating, acting unconcious, or dopey.* This has caused deaths in Bettas or other...

You were lucky on your purchase of him. Good luck and hope he keeps getting better for you.

they get big. They are a good pond or aquarium snail. Here is a picture of them. Well I'm in the US so I can't ship to you.

Sounds to me like his has bloat. Fish can go up to 7 days without food so don't worry about that yet. Fast him for about 4-5 days. then try the peas. Frozen peas.Thawed, blanched, squeezed out of shell and mashed. My other thought is his age. Where did you get him. If you got him at your LFS he...

i raise Trapdoor snails. where are you located?

A sponge filter. that's what I use in my betta grow out tanks. Also, so what if he sees the cories?

Looks like a very bad case of ich to me. Symptoms: Small white spots resembling sand Fish scratch against rocks and gravel In advanced stages fish become lethargic Redness or bloody streaks in advanced stages Infected fish are covered to various degrees with small white spots. Severe...