Aquarium Care of Bettas (Animal Planet® Pet Care Library)
Bettas are a unique tropical fish with attractive features. This handy book make it easy and fun to find favorites from the many different types of bettas, and is a great tool to help make the best care choices for these colorful fish. T.F.H. has teamed up with Animal Planet™, the only television network devoted to the unique bonds between humans and animals, to present an exciting new series of family-friendly, comprehensive guides to superior pet care. Each book features newly written text
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Aquarium Filtration (Complete Authoritative Guide)
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Hardcover: 64 pages Publisher: TFH Publications (October 1998) Language: English ISBN-10: 0793804078 ISBN-13: 978-0793804078
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I would not recommend using aquarium salt with your betta. As with most freshwater fish, they thrive in f-r-e-s-h water, and salt should not be used unless you absolutely must to treat disease/illness, or you risk serious harm to the fish. Salt will also destroy live plants, which I highly recommend for your betta as I’ve found most of mine over the years really enjoy spending time in the plants. It should also be noted that you can easily end up with dangerous levels of salt if you use it without consulting a hydrometer or refractometer, especially since the salt does not evaporate with time like the water does. I recommend thorough research from multiple sources before using salt in your freshwater aquariums.
Betta splendens shouldn’t be kept in small bowls of water, same as any other fish. They are just no different than any other fish their size when it comes to their water volume requirements. Any fish this size is going to create way too much waste, unless they are being starved, to keep ammonia and nitrite levels at zero if kept in 1 gal or smaller unfiltered container. In my experience this is the case even with live plants (which reduces ammonia). In a lot of these little “betta bowls” and the like that I see for sale, I doubt even a daily 50% water change would save the fish from the constant burn of ammonia. If you have a betta bowl and doubt this, buy a test kit and see where your ammonia and nitrite levels are at. They should be at 0ppm at pretty much all times. If you aren’t familiar with the nitrogen cycle and/or do not know how to cycle your tank to make it safe for fish before adding your fish, do some online searches for info on the subject. “New tank syndrome” and bettas constantly dying in their small containers isn’t an unexplainable mystery…they are being killed by their own waste(ammonia and nitrites), and it’s completely preventable.
Betta splendens in the wild (not that these “fancy” store bought versions closely resemble their wild counterparts, but still) live in rice paddies that are often the size of a football field and, for most of the year contain thousands of gallons of water. Not to mention that their native waters are warm, they are absolutely a tropical fish, in fact they seem to do best in temps higher than many tropicals require, and very small water volumes cannot safely be heated. Why the pet trade decided they could be marketed as fish that require smaller containers than others is beyond me.
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Excellent for anyone thinking of buying a Betta! They need more than just a bowl to survive. Bettas also need a mini heater, mini filter, and at least a 1 gallon tank per Betta!!!
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|Old Filtration Technics,
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