How Long Should I Give Him? 5 Days?

[jollysue]

I decided to try to free up a split ten today.
I thought maybe I could move the VT's to cory tanks. Well I moved Zuni Warrior, and he is hiding now behind the filter and throwing me dirty looks. I think he misses his VT partner Lavendar Boy. They spend all day lightly flaring and leaning on the divider, resting in the sand by the divider, hiding in an Amazon plant near the divider. The cory tank is a 40 usg long, and I think it is a huge world for a little VT from a cup.

I got Zuni and Lavendar Boy together as my first Betta Boys.


Zunis's first pic after he got home from the lfs

This is Lavendar Boy

So should I wait awhile or move them into some different acommodations near each other or perhaps back to the split ten? All the talk about not stressing bettas with too much flaring may have influenced me.

If they cooperate in the morning I will take some up to date pics of the VT Boys

 

[soritan]

You know, I'm not sure. But, the standard advice I read is 'about two weeks', with newly brought home fish from the pet store. I imagine they go through about the same trials as a transfered betta...

 

[jollysue]

That's good, thanks, soritan.

 

[soritan]

Oy, don't take my word for it! I'm hardly qualified, it's just I've read the same advice given so many times, I can now successfully parrot what I've read. But, that has been my own personal experience, as well.

 

[jollysue]

Well, it makes sense to me. I can give it a few days anyway. Maybe he will actually come to like the room. He was laying on top of a plastic floating plant once that he had never got to do before. But then he decided it was safer behind the filter. It is a big strong filter.

 

[jollysue]

Zuni Warrior is adapting very well.

I would post a pic update, but I packed to go to VA, arrived in plenty of time for the flight, and found to my surprise and annoyance, if not amusment, that I was a week early! So my camera is packed--a week early--and in my car. )

Anyway, back to Zuni: He got stuck to the intake once. Fortunately it was while I was watching. It is a Penguin 350--big double bio-wheel filter. That set him back a bit and minorly crinkled his fins, but now he is swiming the length of the tank, dashing for his share of the blackworms, has some favorite hidy spots under the sunken city, and looks very pretty in the tank, making it an interesting community. I think I will add a couple of cockatoo females for the cockatoo boy, rather than take him out.

Thanks to Inchworm for the suggestion for cory tanks and Betta boys!

Just in case you are worried about the intake, I have put a stocking over the intake filter piece. Zuni has to put out some energy to swim the currents, but he seems to be happy. No place for bubble nests but lots of interesting places to Betta float. I will eventually see to protected bubble nest spots for all the bubble nesters in my care.