containers

[jacblades]

i think the aqua view hex's they sell are really good, they are one gallon and come with a light and undergravel filter (that I always take out, its useless) and are perfect for a betta. I dont reccomend using a lees small bettahex but I do have one of my bettas in one and he is happy, but he is also young and very small so he has plenty of room, and its about 1/3rd of a gallon, not 1/5th lol

you mean this one? i kept my first bettas in this...while they died a slow and painful death-but i did have 2 in there with those plants taking up all of the room too. (i didnt know any better )

i just compared it to a 1/4 gal kritter keeper and its about the same size, maybe a few ounces smaller.

 

[endparenthesis]

the betta hexes are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too small! do not put a betta in anyhting less than one gallon! its best to get a container that is long to give your betta swimming room. i use shoe box storage containers with holes poked in the tops.

Jac, I've seen that pic on here a few times, and every time it amazes me that you can leave those tanks in the sun without having algae up the wazoo instead of crystal-clear water. How do you do it?

 

[jacblades]

i scrub it out every few days. in the second tank from the right-i just leave the algae there because the guppies like to snack on it and i like the look of green algae. most of what i get in the othert tanks is a mix of green and brown so i just scrub it all out if there is any brown at all.

the 20 gal (the turtle tank) is now full of water and has green beard algae all over it-i think its looksr eally cool

lots of water changes too


but then again im one of those wierdos who likes algae!

 

[endparenthesis]

I like green algae but I never seem to get it. I get blue-green algae, which would be great if it didn't smother my plants... or I get brown diatoms and brown hair algae. None of the cool-looking stuff.

 

[steppy104]

i seen the older picture that you posted somewhere else, jac.....is this the newer one? looks nice! what kind of turtle is that? seems big for that tank...but then again, i only have a side view

is he the kind that hates humans and runs at the sight of movement, or one of the kinds that runs to the glass and jumps for joy when you go by? it's funny how a little food can change one from the other. lol....turtles are so cool

 

[thellama]

save on foods has 42 oz containers...

plastic ones with lids... 5 for $4 canadian...

theyre in the aisle with the tupperware crap..

theyre for like school lunches

 

[wuvmybetta]

Are we talking homes for bettas or 'containers' for fry? I think anything a betta is going to be permanently housed in should be at least a gallon

 

[thellama]

mine will be in the 42 oz containers as their homes...

they have plenty of room to swim in them i think

 

[jacblades]

when i took that pic, i had just moved the only turtle i had at the time from the 10 to that 20 (i now have 2 turtles) and hadny filled up the tank yet since i didnt have the filter at the time. it is now full of water and it houses 2 baby red eared sliders. i think the tank might be small if they were tortoises or land turtles but they are aquatic turtles so they get all of that space to swim. just took a picture of it with on of the turtles trying to climb out

when housing fry, i just take those containers i use for adults and divide them into 3 which makes 42 ounces each. the containers are actually 1.5 gal but i only fill them with 1 gal of water to avoid spills.

 

[shrks1fan]

mine will be in the 42 oz containers as their homes...

they have plenty of room to swim in them i think

42 ozs is NOT enough room to permanently house an adult Betta, as Kelly said, adults really should be housed in nothing less than 1 gallon. 42 ozs does not have enough swimming room. Yes, it will "survive" in 42 ozs but it's still cruel to expect it to live a good portion of it's life in that amount of water.

Linda

 

[wuvmybetta]

I agree,Linda.
Try and find something bigger for the adults.