Bigger the Better!
- Well I bought a ten gallon tank and bought a heater an filter and even some live under water plants. He seems so much happier and boy does the little guy love to eat!
- —Guest guest
Moving to a larger vase...
- I'm moving our Betta to a 2.5 ltr vase... he's been in a 1 ltr vase, for around 4mo. He needs more room.
- —Guest mauiguide
NO
- A chained dog will survive but not thrive. No different for a confined fish. The more room the better. Having said that, I bought two Betta fish from a major chain store because they were in filthy water. For now I have them in the largest 'vases' I could find about a quart each :( with a water logged peace lily. I wanted the mouth of the vase to be very wide so i was sure it had fresh oxygen. Well for now its a lot larger than the tiny plastic cup they were in with blocked air holes. I hope to get them larger tanks soon. They don't seem hungry though. I gave them some Betta food and also bought baby shrimp brine.. any advice? Thanks in advance...
- —Guest visitor
NO!
- It's so obvious--a vase? Inhumane and dumb! Another vain human thing.
- —Guest MJ
Betta in vase for 3 years
- Regular water changes and no overfeeding + happy healthy fish! I had 6 other large fish tanks...he lasted longer than the bettas in my community and plant tanks!
- —Guest Jen
Mine is Thriving
- My Betta Hercules is in 3 liters of water in a Marina Betta kit. He loves it.
- —Guest RD
Mine seems good
- I have had my betta for about two years now, I bought it from Wal-mart and he has been in a larger vase ever since. There is no plant on top and I feed him the pellets and I'm sure he does eat some bugs since the vase is on our patio. I don't clean out the tank as often as I should because he seems to like the "stuff" that grows on the bottom? Once he spilled on the carpet when I was changing the water and my dog got him in his mouth but he has been fine ever since. They seem to be pretty tuff fish.
- —Guest rob
Yes. It's fine.
- My school owns a betta and it lives in a gigantic (I don't know how big litres wise) vase with a plant and pebbles and is one of the happiest fish I've seen. Furthermore, my house group has a fish and we keep him a typical little fish bowl with conditioned water and a fake plant (which does the trick). He's so fast! He's very active, and much more active than all the bettas I've seen in those huge tanks... they always seem to just sit around (which, I understand, is typical of their species, but still). I'm heading out to get one today, actually. Can't wait!
- —Guest G
Happy betta!
- Glad to see you have written some information about bettas. Yes they can be kept in small containers, as it is okay if you do regular water changes and keep it in a warm part of your house etc etc stated by many others. I recently purchased by betta, I have him in a 10 gallon tank with heater, filter and bubble maker. He also has java fern and moss in the tank that are attached to two large pieces of drift wood. He is a very happy fish even though he just moved in today. He seems to prefer one side of the tank over the other though haha.
- —Guest Eggbert
...I think my Beta is a zombie
- OK, when I got my beta, his name is Voodoo, he was half dead and suffering from a sever case of fin rot. This I treated by putting him in clean water because I didn't know what else to do. It eventually went away on it's own though his fin never grew back. Since then he has survived just about everything from neglect to cat attacks. He has lived in everything from the standard bait bowl they come in to a three or four gallon bowl. No heaters or filters though, I don't think I've even used any of those "conditioning" drops that they sell. I've had this fish for three years now and no matter how much my mother neglects him he thrives! He even beats off my sisters cats and has survived having his home fall off of a shelf and shatter. I don't know why everyone else seems to have such fragile fish but my guy is pretty resilient.
- —Guest Almond
c'est okk
- I think it is ok, as long as it is a fair sized vase.
- —Guest youknow
BETTAS IN VASE
- I just got my Betta fish a couple of days and i put it in a vase and it seems to be happy and there hasn't been a problem:)
- —Guest DEEDEE
Bettas
- Yes, I've kept Bettas in vases complete with live plants and decorations. Large vases are easier to maintain than small ones, of course. I've put a few together for friends and hve even sold some. As long as water changes are done and the fish aren't overfed, the can live for years and even breed.
- —Guest Jason
Betta in a vase
- I have four bettas. One is in a cycled ten gallon tank with heater and filter. The other three are in 2.5 gallon to 4 gallon vases and containers. The three containers are a 2.5 gallon glass jar, a three gallon vase, and a four gallon critter keeper. Each of these has a small undergravel heater which keeps them around 78-80 degrees, a sponge filter powered by an air pump with a fine bubble stone. Each of these three also has live amazon sword plants which do not block the surface area, a thermometer, and some shell decorations. I just put the sponge filters in a couple of weeks ago. I do fifty percent water changes every two days and clean the gravel with a siphon once a week. I also have the air pumps on a regulator to keep the bubbles to less than half of the surface area. The ten gallon is much easier to take care of as you would any other aquarium with 10-20 percent water changes weekly and regular maintenance. I test for ammonia every other day in the small containers.
- —Guest Karl
What I didn't know!
- i actually received 2 battas from my sister who had them in fish bowls and a vase with a lily . one died last year of what i thought was starvation. little did I know it was probably from the bowl the other one is still in a bowl. i will have to get a tank and stuff so he won't die too.As soon as i have $$$.
- —Guest robin
