Calling all fish people

devinecanine said:
Hey Nedim...thanks for making this thread. You've answered a question I've been wondering about for a few months now! I have two male bettas (names are Red Fish and Blue Fish..ala Dr. Suess). Red Fish always has that bubble stuff going shortly after I change the water and I never knew what it was til now. Blue Fish doesn't do it, though. Does this mean he isn't healthy? I am very careful about the water I put in their bowls. I don't use my tap water because it has a lot of limescale in it so I buy drinking water. It seems to get scummy pretty fast, though. I only feed them once a day and not too much. As you can see, I don't know diddly about bettas. I just figured you feed them and change the water and they live til they die. Is there something else I should be doing? Oh yeah, I don't use the gravel on the bottoms of their bowls, I use those colored glass stones. Is that okay?

Jessie
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Youre doing fine devine canine! Lemme give you a tip though, you dont have to keep buying spring water. They sell a product that comes in liquid form that takes the metals and chlorine right outta the water. This little bottle last me for about a month and I have a frog tank, betta bowl, goldfish tank and community tank. I forget what its called and im too lazy to get up right now.lol I will post back tho, with the name of the solution. It costs about $3.50 and it will save you some cash.
 
Thanks, Nedim and O.C. The bottled water is just called drinking water. I guess it's supposed to have all of the sodium and minerals screened out of it. I would rather buy the stuff you suggested, though. It sounds a lot cheaper and buying that water and lugging it home is a real PITA!

Jessie
 
devinecanine said:
Thanks, Nedim and O.C. The bottled water is just called drinking water. I guess it's supposed to have all of the sodium and minerals screened out of it. I would rather buy the stuff you suggested, though. It sounds a lot cheaper and buying that water and lugging it home is a real PITA!

Jessie
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LOL! You should have seen it when I had my 55 gallon South American tank, complete with live plants. The types of fish I had could only tolerate very soft water, but our tap water here is hard enough to chew. I ended up doing the whole tank with nothing by reverse osmosis water! Nothing like hauling 15 gallons a week for water changes.
 
I think the nests all depend on the betta itself. Arakasi, my other betta, would build a bit of a nest when I first changed his water, but it would fall apart after a few days. Kabuki builds these huge nests that don't go away until I change the water and then he goes right back to building. That little green juvinile I had posted a pic of in an earlier thread never really did get around to any nest building, and then he died.

Question: Has anyone else ever had a problem with blood worms and fin rot? It seems every time I try and feed those worms, I spend the next two weeks battling rot...so I quit feeding the blood worms and no rot in sight.
 
Zoom said:
I think the nests all depend on the betta itself. Arakasi, my other betta, would build a bit of a nest when I first changed his water, but it would fall apart after a few days. Kabuki builds these huge nests that don't go away until I change the water and then he goes right back to building. That little green juvinile I had posted a pic of in an earlier thread never really did get around to any nest building, and then he died.

Question: Has anyone else ever had a problem with blood worms and fin rot? It seems every time I try and feed those worms, I spend the next two weeks battling rot...so I quit feeding the blood worms and no rot in sight.
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Are you feeding freeze-dried or live? I only feed freeze dried foods(with the exception on rosy reds, crickets and the occasional glass shrimp) because live foods have a high chance of carrieing diseases and unhealthy bacteria. Freeze drying the shrimp eliminates most of the bacteria, I've been told.
 
I wish I had a betta! We have a 75 with two cichlids we have been trying to get rid of forever! I hate cleaning he thing out and still feel bad everytime we have to feed them goldfish :( I used to try to rescue the cute ones in my little tank but it got overrun. I had a betta that lived a long time when I was younger but I got one a couple years ago and it only lasted a few days so I gave up.
 
I would love to get a 75g. **wink wink, nudge nudge** Lol. The amount of maintenance that is required depends on how much filtration power you have and whether or not the tank is over-stocked.
 
Just them having the goldfish for dinner kills it. they are not very clean and I don't like having to pick chunks out of the tank :o
 
I know what you mean. Thats why I feed my fish live food a day or so before I change the water. Those goldfish are filthy things. But trust me, I've saved for than a few in my day.lol. I have a gold comet in the community tank and a calico comet in a 10g by himself. My frog ate the rest.lol
 
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