Betta betta fish

[jen_er_ator]

hey, i'm getting a betta fish this weekend and want to know if any of you guys have one/some? ever since #19 i have wanted a betta to love and call my own, and i've been trying to get good info on the best way to take care of them and what to look for when purchasing one, but every website i've gone to so far has been very hard to read or don't have good insights into the care of betta. anybody have any info for me??? shanks a million!

[Ryan]

dood just use that issue as a guide
plus start saving up money cuz once you get one fish youre gonna want another and another and another..etc..i recommend a jack dempsy or an oscar

[ironmonkey]

Originally posted by jen_er_ator
hey, i'm getting a betta fish this weekend and want to know if any of you guys have one/some? ever since #19 i have wanted a betta to love and call my own, and i've been trying to get good info on the best way to take care of them and what to look for when purchasing one, but every website i've gone to so far has been very hard to read or don't have good insights into the care of betta. anybody have any info for me??? shanks a million!

yeah me and my friend would always buy a few bettas and fight them in our sink. ive owned so many over the years, ive had like 14. theres books available for them at you local fish store. they are not at all hard to care for, just feed em once or twice a day theyll be cool. ive gone days were i didnt feed em and they were fine. ive had my present one for like a year, he/she is a blue betta and his name is max. when looking to purchase one look for an active one, not one that lounges all day at the bottom of the cup. and if they have a nice color and a nice black head, you should be fine. if the place youre buying them at has em all in small cups and you see a fish you are interested in, switch the cups around to see if the fish try to attack each eachother the more aggressive the better(this is just my opinion). good luck shopping for a betta, let us know what you get.

[jen_er_ator]

i just got home with my betta!! his name is jubei and he's blue with a little red in his tail. he seems to be adjusting well, i feel bad cuz he looks so lonely without all his other cup-mates around, but i guess he'll get used to it. the only thing i'm wondering now is what (if any) plant(s) should i put in his bowl?? i have some blue rock things in there at the bottom (which should make cleaning fun) but i feel like he should have some sort of plant or something in there too. hmmmmm. ironmonkey?? any ideas?

[jen_er_ator]

here's some pics of jubei (they're kinda out of focus, but i'm just so dang proud!)

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1467040&a=11034261&p=50814424&Sequence=3&res=high

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1467040&a=11034261&p=50814411&Sequence=3&res=high

[Edited by jen_er_ator on 06-23-2001 at 04:43 PM]

[ironmonkey]

Originally posted by jen_er_ator
i just got home with my betta!! his name is jubei and he's blue with a little red in his tail. he seems to be adjusting well, i feel bad cuz he looks so lonely without all his other cup-mates around, but i guess he'll get used to it. the only thing i'm wondering now is what (if any) plant(s) should i put in his bowl?? i have some blue rock things in there at the bottom (which should make cleaning fun) but i feel like he should have some sort of plant or something in there too. hmmmmm. ironmonkey?? any ideas?

ohhh i saw the pics. very nice, very nice. i like its name too. he will adjust soon actually he probably likes the fact that there are no other visible bettas around cause that agitates the fish. thats why in some stores they put paper in between the fish cups to prevent stress on them. but i read you can put other types of fish in the bowl(not bettas), im not sure what kind tho. anyway plants is a cool idea, i dont have any in my bowl so i couldnt help ya with that. check out some sites, maybe some books and youll be set.

hey jen, why did you choose the name jubei? you must like ninja scroll and/or samurai showdown.

there should be a "giant robot betta battle competition!" haha just playing...

[jen_er_ator]

yeah, ninja scroll is my fav. anime movie, and jubei the fish just seemed the coolest out of all of them. i just fed him this morning and he was taking the food right off of the little thing that i had the food on, plus he's been staying in the front of the bowl alot, checking me out. last night he would swim from the back to have a stare down competition with me everytime i came up to the bowl. um, yeah!! GR betta competition!!! whoo hooo!!!! (i'm just playin too)

-j

[Simon Paradise]

my sister bought one of those last month at wall mart, it comes with a vase and one of those aquatic plants that sits on top...it makes me wonder if theres a wherehouse somewhere with boxes and boxes of betta fish . she named it booty shaker but he just floats there listlessly, he lacks disipline...sometimes shakes his fins around if you tap the glass...do they need other fish to fight with to be happy?

[jen_er_ator]

mine seems really happy so far...sometimes he just chills at the bottom, but he's been swimming around all happy and he comes up to the glass to check me out
he kinda reminds me of that fish on the south park episode where all the pets were from some evil dimension and then there was evil cartman who was lame...i hope my fish doesn't try to kill me.
maybe your sister's fish is sick, cuz i don't think he should floatin all listless like...

[ironmonkey]

ive read in some places where people have trained their betta to jump out of the water to reach their food. and another guy trained his betta to where he will put his hand in the water and the betta would curl up in his hand while he feeds it with the other. bettas can eat meat too, like bits of fresh hamburger, ive never tried it tho. a cool thing you can do, but dont do it ALL the time is to get a small mirror and place it right next to your fish bowl and watch jubei in his fighting betta stance.

yeah "max" stares me down all the time. hes always like "FEED ME DAMMIT!" back in the day me and my friends use to buy like four at a time and fight them for fun. and we'd dump them in one sink and reenact a royal rumble. we were mean...

yeah my "max" is a lover, not a fighter.

[jen_er_ator]

ok, this is freakin weird...
i was cleaning jubei's bowl and had him in a little tupperware bowl, then i turned away for a sec and then looked back and he wasn't there!!! for a minute i thought, where could he run to? and i frantically looked around for him, then i saw this dark blob in the sink. the little fucker jumped out of the bowl!!! i'm pissed that i didn't get to witness his tremendous leap from the bowl to the sink, but...do fish do this? now i'm all scared that he's gonna try to jump out of his regular bowl and then months later i'll find a dried up little jubei somewhere in the corner of my room.

[ironmonkey]

haha thats happened to me like three times. two of my bettas died like that, like i looked up and one was gone. i was like "where the fuck did they go?!" then i found him on the floor already dead. i have no idea why they do this, but since then i dont fill my tank all the way to the top for fear of this happening again.

be careful...

[Kenishiro]

yeah, i think the more aggressive fishes will try to jump out of their tank or bowls. gotta keep a cover over them.

bettas are cool! my sis had a several in separate bowls in different parts of her house.

[5.92]

Swordfish is good with lots of lemon juice.
I know I know.

[jen_er_ator]

Originally posted by mewmew
Revenge of the betta fish thread.

I just got mine today. His name is Pacman. He looks like pacman when he chomps his food.

My room is always dark and pretty cold, will Pacman be ok in it? He's got a great personality. He'll stare me down or just chill out and float for a minute, and then he'll fucking divebomb all over the place or start pushing the rocks around.

He is neat.

Yay mew mew!!! is he blue? your fishy should be fine, just make sure when you clean his tank that the water you use to replace the old water is the same temperature. if you are using spring water, just keep a gallon in your room so it stays the same temp. as the fish water and he should be fine. maybe put a light over by his tank or light a candle or two and put it by his bowl. i do that for my jubei and he seems to like it.

[bakaaeko]

ah betta....we used put both male in a small container and let them fight!!!YEah...violent!

[Eric Nakamura]

There's a betta here at the GR office that from the days of the Betta article. it's a female so there's no color, but it's stronger than most fish. Does anyone want her? I guess you gotta be local in LA, but I think she's neglected here.

[DreadedWheat]

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah! Let's make Betta Babies!!

I used to have a betta named Thoreau. He died after my mother left his bowl on top of the radiator (she thought he'd be cold) while I was away in college.
Anyway, I used to have a good laugh at him by putting a mirror to him -- he'd make himself look big and divebomb at himself. And he'd go pale (almost white) with fear right before I changed his water. Maybe he died of long-term stress, and not from the radiator incident.

[DreadedWheat]

is he a BETTA betta? ahahahhhahhahahahahahaa!

[BooBoo-Kitty]

Originally posted by Eric Nakamura
There's a betta here at the GR office that from the days of the Betta article. it's a female so there's no color, but it's stronger than most fish. Does anyone want her? I guess you gotta be local in LA, but I think she's neglected here.

cool! i'll take her off your hands, if its not already dealt with.

[DreadedWheat]

Originally posted by mewmew
Originally posted by DreadedWheat
is he a BETTA betta? ahahahhhahhahahahahahaa!

man. shut up.
Cmon. You know you wanted to say it.

[phism]

Originally posted by mewmew
Revenge of the betta fish thread.

I just got mine today. His name is Pacman. He looks like pacman when he chomps his food.

My room is always dark and pretty cold, will Pacman be ok in it? He's got a great personality. He'll stare me down or just chill out and float for a minute, and then he'll fucking divebomb all over the place or start pushing the rocks around.

He is neat.

i'm surprised falcor didn't point out that this was already a thread as usual. damn senior citizens. i mean robots.

my friend elise is getting one. she's going to name it 'wetty mcdrenched' after an instance at work when my friends chris and matthew were spraying water at her and calling her names like that..

[BooBoo-Kitty]

now what do i name her?

she's really neat. she sits there in her dirtyazz water and stares me down. i don't know what to name her though. any suggestions?

[Ryan]

whatever you call her..try to fit in slut and hentai into the name

[DreadedWheat]

Name her "Not Food," so you won't eat her by mistake.

[Eric Nakamura]

yeah that's the GR fish. It's lived through everything.

eric

[kobo]

Originally posted by jen_er_ator
...do fish do this? now i'm all scared that he's gonna try to jump out of his regular bowl and then months later i'll find a dried up little jubei somewhere in the corner of my room.

no, he's coming to get you when your sleeping.......moohahaha

seriously, I forgot about these fish, I remember when I was 9 I had a whole tank of fish, I got 2 of these one day and a couple of days later, they killed all of my other fish except for billy, my catfish.

[BooBoo-Kitty]

to reveal the name of my betta! you ready? her name is:

MOD
DIE!

or moddie, if you aint into the whole formatting thang. i decided this cuz a) she be a femme fish, b) she usedta be property o GR, and 3> cuz she sits there and creeps all day. every now and then she'll get smart with me, but then she'll just swim to the other side of the bowljar and forget about me with her 5 seconds of memory.

i know i'm dorky, but earlier today i was doin the christucker dance™ to "just what i needed" by the cars and then i noticed that moddie was moving too! i think she was threatened by the large mass and was posturing herself for flight or self defence. either way, it was a good thang that no one else was home...

[DreadedWheat]

Ahh... Sea life and new wave. You sure have the life, Boo-Boo.

[falcor]

i just got one today. she's red and is pretty lively. i lub her and she watched toonami the whole afternoon with me.

[Margin Walker]

*bump*

I've decided I want to get another betta. The problem is that the last one (Chunkstyle, RIP) didn't even last a week. I bought a new kit (w/ fake plant, rocks & lid), rinsed the rocks & tank & put the anti-chlor stuff in the water. After about a day, he started movin' kinda slow and slowly accumulated this white moss on his body. About 3 days later, the poor fella went tits up.

I think what happened was I had old, stale bread molding on the shelf below him and the spores clung to him somehow. But just to be safe this time around, what kind of preperations should I take? Should I boil the stones first? Or do something else I'm not thinking of? BTW, I like Jen's name--"Jubei"--and I think I'll nick it for the new fish. (grins)

[Ricky]

I had the same problem with my betta, it was probbaly a parasite

Originally posted by Margin Walker
*bump*

I've decided I want to get another betta. The problem is that the last one (Chunkstyle, RIP) didn't even last a week. I bought a new kit (w/ fake plant, rocks & lid), rinsed the rocks & tank & put the anti-chlor stuff in the water. After about a day, he started movin' kinda slow and slowly accumulated this white moss on his body. About 3 days later, the poor fella went tits up.

I think what happened was I had old, stale bread molding on the shelf below him and the spores clung to him somehow. But just to be safe this time around, what kind of preperations should I take? Should I boil the stones first? Or do something else I'm not thinking of? BTW, I like Jen's name--"Jubei"--and I think I'll nick it for the new fish. (grins)

[kamenriderv3]

i think you can get medicine for that. ask the pet shop about it.

i would like to have some pet crayfish but its too much work keeping the tank clean.

[Margin Walker]

Originally posted by Ricky
I had the same problem with my betta, it was probbaly a parasite

No kidding? So you don't think it had anything to do w/ the moldy bread? Should I have boiled the water, maybe? Either way, I'll tell the pet shop about it and see what they say.

[kamenriderv3]

probably ich or ick
http://www.angelfire.com/or2/cichlid102/Disease/diseases.htm#Ich


other diseases....
http://www.fishdoc.co.uk/disease/clinicalsigns.htm

http://www.versaquatics.com/disease_diagnosis.htm

[Edited by kamenriderv3 on 06-18-2002 at 02:33 PM]

[/dev/null]

Margin Walker,

The problem is that most bettas are sold and kept in conditions that are totally not good for the fish. If anyone keeps them alive for any period of time, it is usually due to luck. I know this is bad news, but thats just the way it is.

If you really want to try it, here are some tips.

1) Use at least a one gallon aquarium.

2) Change about a third of the water at least once a week. Twice a week is better.

3) Allow the new water to sit in a container, preferably aerated, for 24 hours before using.

4) Feed only 3-5 flakes of food a day.

5) Use a thin layer of gravel in the tank, about a half inch deep, and stir it up often - at least once a week when you do water changes.

6) Be careful about the location you select for the tank. You want to minimize temperature fluctuations, so stay away from windows and heaters.

Good Luck!!!

[Seabass]

Yeah boil stuff before you put it in (dont forget to let it cool off) hehehe
Also, maybe you need a small filter or airpump. The betta dont need it but I think oxygenating the water keeps it healthier.

Buy some ick remover just to have it handy, fish always get that when the temp. changes during new seasons.

Don't get discouraged. You may go through a few fish friends. But you'll get it right one day. I had a betta for like three years, then I added a crab...crabs are evil, hungry little bastards!

[dragon chic]

we have a beta named birney baxter, he's tough as hell has outlived all of our other fish. he's cool.

[Ricky]

my betta's fins have become fray like pieces are falling off since I got him, what should I do? I put him on medicine for a week.

[jen_er_ator]

Originally posted by Ricky
my betta's fins have become fray like pieces are falling off since I got him, what should I do? I put him on medicine for a week.

ricky, this happened to jubei too. i would keep finding small pieces of his fins floating in his bowl so i popped in some medicine for a week and he's doing better. no more floating fin pieces. i'm not sure if his fins will ever grow back to normal, but it makes the fish look a lot tougher.

[Ricky]

jen yeah my fish looks like he got into some fight.

Originally posted by jen_er_ator
Originally posted by Ricky
my betta's fins have become fray like pieces are falling off since I got him, what should I do? I put him on medicine for a week.

ricky, this happened to jubei too. i would keep finding small pieces of his fins floating in his bowl so i popped in some medicine for a week and he's doing better. no more floating fin pieces. i'm not sure if his fins will ever grow back to normal, but it makes the fish look a lot tougher.

[j tea cozy]

I just got two bettas a couple of weeks ago and named them Jules and Mojojojo. They're great if you've got cats, cause they drive the cats wild.

[invictus]

Alright, what do you do when you're Betta Fish constantly flares his gills at everyone? Last week, he was nice and pleasant and this week he's being hostile and flaring out at everyone -- I'm sure his little fish face has got to hurt by now....

Essentially, besides giving him a little snack, how do you keep these bastards from being so mean?

[/dev/null]

Originally posted by j tea cozy
I just got two bettas a couple of weeks ago and named them Jules and Mojojojo. They're great if you've got cats, cause they drive the cats wild.

I have an 80 gallon saltwater aquarium, and I used to have a roommate with a cat. The cat would sit on the chair for hours at a time and watch the fish go back and forth. If you sat on the other side of the tank, you could look through and see the cat's eyes moving back and forth following the fish.

So, that's how many evenings turned out at the apartment: The fish swimming back and forth for hours, the cat watching them swim back and forth for hours, and me watching the cat's eyes watching the fish swim back and forth for hours. I hope nobody was watching me.

[/dev/null]

Originally posted by invictus
Alright, what do you do when you're Betta Fish constantly flares his gills at everyone? Last week, he was nice and pleasant and this week he's being hostile and flaring out at everyone -- I'm sure his little fish face has got to hurt by now....

Essentially, besides giving him a little snack, how do you keep these bastards from being so mean?

If he is new, he probably needed some time to get used to his surroundings before he considers it his turf. Also, anything red or blue might set him off. Other than that, I don't think there is much you can do.

[invictus]

Oh my gosh.... it's so weird you mentioned the red/blue thing... He's actually the office fish, he hangs out with tons of people, but he's still fairly new around here, about a month or so. He's always been really skittish, but then the past week he's been super pissy. The only thing that has changed in the past week is that someone brought in a tin of shortbread cookies that's super huge and super RED. It's been next to his little fishy-house for a week.

We just moved it soo he can't see it. Hopefully he won't be so mad at us now....

Thanks /dev/null, you're a lifesaver!

[/dev/null]

Hopefully, that will help. But I make no guarantees.

Ohter male bettas are usually recognized by their bright red or bright blue color. So anything bright red or blue tends to get them riled up!

[invictus]

Well, we moved the giant cookie tin yesterday, after I read your post. He's MUCH better today, and he finally started rebuilding his bubble-nest (last one destroyed when we changed his water). He also went back to eating more.

Thanks again for the suggestion, it was much appreciated.

[kamenriderv3]

what do you guys feed betta fish? well beside cucumbers and peanut butter...

is that fancy hikari "betta bio-gold" worth the price?

[kamenriderv3]

yes....that choice of food is good.

i read that i'm supposed to change the water often. 1 week for every gallon of water.

[kamenriderv3]

thats a good idea. frequent water changes will reduce chances of diseases. try adding a pinch of kosher salt.

i stopped my mission to breed my two bettas. even though there are different mixes that go well, i have been advised to not breed red and blue. maybe i'll pick up another red.

[kamenriderv3]

finding same colors of the same tail fins of different sexes might be tough. it all depends on the local supplies or where ever you go.

i tried that frozen brine shrimp today. doesn't float so its not as convenient but they love it.

[Margin Walker]

Originally posted by kamenriderv3
thats a good idea. frequent water changes will reduce chances of diseases. try adding a pinch of kosher salt.
I was talking with the clerk at the store about this today. He said that even though Bettas are freshwater fish, it would help if you add just a dash of rock salt. And to make sure it's un-iodized. It helps balance the Ph or something.

Anyways, I just picked another one today. I'm finally done mourning the death of my last betta, Chunkstyle. This new one's red, so I named him Cochese (Nathan Wind, baby!). I bought some stuff (MelaFix) for the fungus that killed the last fish, so maybe he'll last longer than a week.

So here's my question: do y'all think it's cruel to put a mirror next to the tank? I just tried that to see if he'd react to it. And like I've been told would happen, he flared out his gills and got all pissed-off. I'm not training him to fight, so I'm wondering if y'all think it's just cruel to agitate him for no real reason.

[kamenriderv3]

yeah its kind of mean to get the guy too aggressive. he'll probably bang his head into the wall repeatedly. :-]

i picked up a blue female to mate with my blue male. i just hope they don't make a zillion babies. i can only house so many killer fish in separate containers.

[gorillaglue]

ok here is the story of buddy my former betta fish. its sad so get your kleenex out.
i had buddy for several years and he survived alot of malnutrition and neglect. he sort of became a science project for me. one time one of his fins fell off and he swam sideways for a while and then it grew back as good as new.
then i got him a fancy two gallon filtered tank and some fancy food that makes the fishie's fins get bigger and more colorful. he seemed very happy.
he was getting on in his fishie years, i think he was about 3 or 4 years old.
i went to the pet store to see if i could find him a companion. the fish boy said that he would get along well with a pleco. those are those algea sucking fish. i named him belladonna because he was sort of scary looking. so anyway,
i brought him home to meet buddy and things seemed great.
within two weeks i found buddy floating atop the tank and belladonna nibbling away at his rotting corpse! i went back to the fish store and told them what happened and the fish boy told me that buddy was too old and he should have died some time ago. that made me sad and angry. i yelled at the fish boy. so fish boy gave me a replacement betta and said everything would be okay. i dont remember what i named the second betta. we can call him betta #2 for arguments sake.
any how, within another few weeks the same thing happened!! the pleco killed a second betta fish! it was a murderer and died soon after. hopefully from eating up my bettas.
my friend recently had piranahs but they died too. it was fun to watch them eat and then they died and i had to find other things to do.
now i pet my cat, make ridiculously long posts about fish, and boycott petco.
one tip i can give is that bettas seem to prefer warm water and can eat up to 3 times a day.

[Margin Walker]

I don't know how it happened or how long he was there, but I woke up this morning & found my betta lying on the floor. What's even more amazing is that he's still alive--I just scooped him up and put him back in the water. And like that, it's as if nothing happened. The thing is that the distance from the tank to the floor is over 5 feet--can you imagine how far a fall that is to such a small fish?

[Bugs Bunny]"Ewww, dat HAD ta hoight"[/Bugs Bunny]

[kamenriderv3]

hopefully he doesn't have any internal damage.

[Jack]

I hope I can get a betta some day.

GR BETTA FIGHT CLUB!

"2 fish enter, 1 fish leaves. Later, the other fish leaves and is declared the winner!"

[falcor]

i just changed the rocks in my betta's bowl - black river rocks with red betta. (my second one - while i was in ca in may, my first one died and my bf bought me another one asap)

anyway this one is a nut and when you get up close to the bowl or when you point at it, it gets all fired up and defensive.

[jen_er_ator]

jubei passed on to fishy heaven. now there is only mr.blake left.
that is all for now.

[falcor]

my condolences. i remember when you first got the little guy.

p.s. i am staring at your icon right now and my face is starting to resemble it.

[johnny_sokk0]

so sad so sad

my condolences


we miss you Jen!!!

[Margin Walker]

*bump*

What can y'all suggest in the way of tank cleaning? Cochese's tank is getting kinda slimy. I was gonna clean it with vinegar, but I didn't want any acidic residue to eat at his scales and poison him.

[r0otsrockreggae]

my boyfriend and i bought a betta about 2 months ago. his name is Mr. Jefferson :) im sorry about your fish, jen.

[kamenriderv3]

i wouldn't do any serious tank cleaning unless you are putting new fishes in a tank that had sick fishes.

after talking with several pet shop employees and taking care of my 4th adult betta, i don't really clean the tank. at the most, i'll scrape off the algae on the glass sides (for aesthetic reasons) and siphon off the waste during water changes.

there's an ecosystem between the fishes and algae and bacteria. every time you do a through cleaning, you cause an imbalance and it takes awhile to get restored. also there's more stress when you remove the fish from the tank.

i used to do thorough tank cleanings. the first three fishes eventually developed problems. my current betta is the healthiest.

i added a small filter to help with the water circulation and cleaning.

[Margin Walker]

Thanks kv3! Yeah, I remember hearing that betta fish naturally develop a film around their body. So if he's cool with it, I ain't gonna do shit. Lazy animal husbandry: the wave of the future! :p

[cellout]

i think i'm getting one for the girl today. but she only spends three or four days a week at that parent's house. i hope her mom can remember to feed it...
can anybody recommend some good books about betta fishies?

^c

[kamenriderv3]

sorry i don't know any books. but here's a couple websites that helped me out.

http://www.bettasrus.com

http://www.healthybetta.com

and a cool site from thailand! lots of insights from the old country.

http://www.plakatthai.com

[Asharak]

My family's betta fish got eaten. :(

We put it in the large aquarium with the oscar to see how they'd get along because the oscar wouldn't eat the feeder fish and it swallowed the betta whole.

[-minus_one]

ahh, i should have known and done a betta check before posting my story, cool to read all this stuff, we are new to all this fishy business.

[cellout]

odd that you should post your story when you did, -1. I was just at the store with my gf, and we were considering getting a female to go with the male I got her a few months ago.
I have to do more research on breeding, though.

[Ricky]

this brings back memories of nigo

[-minus_one]

http://img11.photobucket.com/albums/v34/bkkgroup/betta_love.jpg

this is what we've been up to the last little while, project betta is go:)

[-minus_one]

http://img11.photobucket.com/albums/v34/bkkgroup/offspring_of_i_singha.jpg
a while back i posted about breeding some bettas. well, these are some of the result, a few months old now. glad to have em too, the father "i singha" jumped to his demise the one night we were out (at christmas party) so it's nice to continue his lineage.

[-minus_one]

http://img11.photobucket.com/albums/v34/bkkgroup/nobita.jpg
this is "nobita", maybe one day i'll show you doreamon too:p

[kamenriderv3]

Originally posted by -minus_one
http://img11.photobucket.com/albums/v34/bkkgroup/offspring_of_i_singha.jpg
a while back i posted about breeding some bettas. well, these are some of the result, a few months old now. glad to have em too, the father "i singha" jumped to his demise the one night we were out (at christmas party) so it's nice to continue his lineage.

that's cool. i never got my betta babies past the frye stage. i messed it up.

[beanie]

what's so cool about betta fish?

seems every girly I know wants one...fish are hard to keep alive.

[ohsoquiet]

I always heard betta fish were really tough. Mine lived a couple years and could jump for its food.

[invictus]

Mine won't die. I've had it for over a year now. I'm amazed, because i hardly do anything for it but feed it and change it's water occassionally. I thought it would have died ages ago, but it's a stubborn little thing....

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Originally posted by beanie
what's so cool about betta fish?

seems every girly I know wants one...fish are hard to keep alive.

it's kind of a north american phenom (girls digging bettas). in south east asia, it's the guys that go crazy for them, fighting rings abound and gambling on the outcome is big business.

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whaa? a plakat mor (clay pot fighter - so named for an traditional aspect of their training involving a period a solitary confinement in a clay pot before being matched) could seriously damage (ie destroy) a guppy:p
i think bettas are one of the easiest fish to keep, as long as you keep their water clean and don't let them get too cold.

[kamenriderv3]

also clean up the uneaten food or they can get fuzzy tail and die.

[nauism]

Originally posted by ironmonkey
yeah me and my friend would always buy a few bettas and fight them in our sink.

Does anybody know how long these fights usually last?

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Originally posted by nauism


Does anybody know how long these fights usually last?
do a search for the fighting fish story i posted a while back. goes into detail.

[nauism]

Interesting stories, nice pics too. I found two threads by you about fish. Thanks.

http://giantrobot.com/forums/search.php3?s=&action=showresults&searchid=202228&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending


Hey...you know fish pretty well? Is there other fish you could recommend for a 2.5 gallon tank? I have a water filter for it. But no air filter. Right now I have one male beta, and was kind of hoping to get it another fish. I thought about a goldfish but I read they grow pretty big. Any ideas?

Any fish in general, not taking into account my betta?

Why do male bettas hate each other so much?

[meaty!]

I have a problem with my betta, maybe someone can help me out :D

Actually it's my sister's betta but anyway.

SO's it had been doing fine for a few months but suddenly developed a large bulge in its body. Like right in the front part of its body behind the gills.

We thought it might be consitipated so we didnt feed it for a few days, but it's still the same. It still moves around like its okay but the bulge is really really huge.

What the heck is it? ANyone? could it be a tumor?

[kamenriderv3]

could be worms or bacteria.

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Originally posted by meaty!
I have a problem with my betta, maybe someone can help me out :D

Actually it's my sister's betta but anyway.

SO's it had been doing fine for a few months but suddenly developed a large bulge in its body. Like right in the front part of its body behind the gills.

We thought it might be consitipated so we didnt feed it for a few days, but it's still the same. It still moves around like its okay but the bulge is really really huge.

What the heck is it? ANyone? could it be a tumor?
don't think it is a tumour, probably constipated, try feeding it shelled peas for a couple of days. if it is a female betta though it might be egg bound, does it have a white "dot" (ovipositor) under it's belly?

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Originally posted by nauism
Interesting stories, nice pics too. I found two threads by you about fish. Thanks.

http://giantrobot.com/forums/search.php3?s=&action=showresults&searchid=202228&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending


Hey...you know fish pretty well? Is there other fish you could recommend for a 2.5 gallon tank? I have a water filter for it. But no air filter. Right now I have one male beta, and was kind of hoping to get it another fish. I thought about a goldfish but I read they grow pretty big. Any ideas?

Any fish in general, not taking into account my betta?

Why do male bettas hate each other so much?
i'm kind of out of the fish breeding game these days although i'll be helping the guy at plakatthai.com on another article on the fighting fish in the next little while. don't put a goldfish in with a betta. i always say that bettas deserve to have their own space, while certain species of betta can be with other fish (female bettas are easier to introduce into mixed tanks) the typical splendens should be kept on it's own. giving it regular flare time by carding his view from others or a mirror except at certain times everyday is a great way to keep your fish healthy and sane. you would do better using the 2.5 gallon for other fish and getting a 1 gallon especially for the betta.

[nauism]

^ Thanks -minus!

Why 1 gallon for a betta? I put rocks and fake plants in the tank for the little guy to hide. He seems to like to dart around the tank.