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betta-writer:kai-ni:alyssaneil:kai-ni:alyssaneil:kai-ni:alyssaneil:kai-ni:alyssaneil:#new #betta #fish #ombre #redHe’s gorgeous! But contrary to popular belief, he won’t do very well in that little bowl :cBetta need at least 2.5 gallons to thrive, preferably 5 gallons. Bigger setups are actually easier to maintain!In a small bowls and containers like this ammonia builds up too fast and will slowly poison and eventually kill your fish. Fish create ammonia when they breathe and poo, and ammonia is toxic to them. Ammonia can’t be seen or smelled - so water can be crystal clear and still toxic to fish. In a container this small you’d have to be doing twice daily water changes to keep ammonia from harming your fish. No fun for you or the fish!Betta are also tropical fish and require a heater! They come from a tropical area around Thailand and Cambodia and need to be at water temperatures of 75-80 degrees - room temperature is too cold for them. Cold leaves them lethargic, sickly and open to other problems. But you can’t safely use a heater in a container this small, so again, I urge you to get him a bigger tank!You won’t regret it - Betta can be such personality filled, zippy little fish when given the room to be! Some studies even say they’re just as smart as other animals, and can feel pain the same way. So please don’t let your little guy suffer - get him a better home!Betta care sheetWhy bowls and vases are bad betta homesbetta myths debunkedThanks!! I know how to care for them I just won him/her today at a baby shower I’m planing to get a better tank!! Like my other one is in(self cleaning just pour water and it flushes dirt out, works really well)!!!!Ah, please read the resources I’ve linked - I know what you’re talking about, the my fun fish tank, and it is absolutely not a suitable home for a betta :c ^ Because of all the reasons listed above. Fish produce ammonia when they breathe, and that’s what’s toxic to them, not any ‘‘dirt’ you can see. They require at least 2.5 gallons (with 5 being better) and that ‘tank’ isn’t anywhere close. I’ve had my other betta since September and he’s perfectly fine and healthy!!That doesn’t change their care requirements. Betta can live up to 7 years - since September doesn’t mean much. Please just consider giving those sources a read - your fish will be so much more active and brighter, and show so much more personality. It really is wonderful seeing them really stretch their fins, when they’re warm and clean!They are warm and they are clean and my bettas are small so their fins have plenty of room to spread out!!That’s what I’m trying to tell you - they scientifically cannot be warm and clean in that ‘tank’, because of the size of it, ammonia buildup, and the fact that water is always colder than the room temperature. You’d have to keep your room 100 degrees + for it to be warm enough for them.Spread their fins out was just a figure of speech - I just meant they need space. Their size doesn’t matter - you can’t keep a dog in a kennel its whole life just because it happens to fit, it needs room to move around. Same with fish. Again just please read over my first post, it explains the science behind exactly why small tanks are not good homes for betta.If it’s okay, I’d like to tack onto here with a little of my own experience.I had to leave my betta in a (cycled) 5 gallon tank for a family emergency. While I was gone, the cycle crashed, meaning that ammonia started to build up when it normally wouldn’t.In 4 days time, the water parameters when I returned were 1 ppm ammonia and 1 ppm nitrite. Those are very, very dangerous levels- and that’s only from breathing because I fasted him before I left. In 4 days time, from breathing alone, my betta was surviving in awful conditions in a 5 gallon tank. In a bowl as small as this, and since your betta will be producing poop and breathing, the ammonia will build exponentially. Keep in mind, that ammonia is invisible chemical- you can’t see it in the water, so flushing the “dirt” out of the container is not removing the ammonia. To second what Kai said about the water not being warm enough: water is colder than room temperature because water is significantly denser than air. This means to raise the temperature of the water by only heating the air around it, the air will need to be significantly hotter than the water. So in order to achieve a water temperature of 78-80 degrees, which bettas require, the air around it must be 90-100 degrees, day and night. Please listen to everyone, they are absolutely correct! They’re not trying to be mean or make you look dumb, we just want to see an animal be taken care of correctly and live in comfort and happiness.You wouldn’t stick a dog in a kennel its whole life and expect it to be happy, would you? -- source link
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