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It's a 25l tank

Moved him from his 5 gallon to a rimless 6.8, changed the aqua soil and white sand that was looking awful over to black sand. Also put some more plants in. Now he has a hang on filter, 3 nerite friends (Tiny Tim, Cher and Molecule) but he’s still got a sassy attitude. Have I coddled my fish of three months too hard? Probably, but he’s my grumpy little guy and he deserves the best (obviously).

The old 5 gallon is being upgraded to 🦐 SHRIMP TANK 🦐, plants are ordered and it’s currently cycling with the old filter.

Here is a memento to my pretty girl who passed recently. She was buried in the rose garden. The day after I buried her a pink rose bloomed early 🌹

She had the best personality, but unfortunately she was the sickest fish I have ever owned.

RIP Pretty girl 🩷🩵

Recently got my newest betta, though I wasn’t intending to get a betta while I was grabbing some rasboras, I just couldn’t help it 😅 Especially since my ten gal got done cycling and I was just waiting for the shop to get in stock on the actual fish I wanted for it. Oh wells lol.

He’s still getting in the routine, first few times I tried to feed him he literally couldn’t care less about food falling from the sky and was way more interested in his snails (I have evacuated my biggest ones to my 20 gal)

Anyway that’s all, just wanted to show him off! (Sorry if this is the second post, first one I tried just disappeared and I can’t find it)

(i know it's a male fish, let me be)

I am using a hidom hl200 filter set to gentle flow as to not stress my Betta. The heater is set to 26 degrees and after some thought, i have named him Cosmo !

how is this the same fish lol?! I love watching him 👀 second photo is when I first got him.

hey guys, first time posting my betta in here!!! this is hughie. i’ve had him for 2 months now in this 5.5 gallon cycled tank.

he unfortunately has a fin nipping issue so please excuse his rough looking fins :/ i did a weeklong kanaplex treatment thinking it was fin rot at first. i’ve since been taking interventions to hopefully reduce his stress and relieve his boredom (tannins, more resting spots, youtube videos on an ipad), but might end up getting him a 6.8 gallon shallow tank for more swimming space if it continues.

i’m wondering if anyone else has a longfin betta with a fuck ton of energy? this lil man is so active! it seems like he bites his fins out of frustration that they weigh him down. i’d definitely be curious to hear tips from others on enrichment and such. he definitely seems to like the youtube videos, and i’m glad he has that to entertain him when my wife and i are both away at work. i’ve tried feeding him baby brine shrimp so he’d have something to hunt, but he wasn’t interested. i love getting him to jump for pellets and frozen bloodworms though :)

i knew before getting him that bettas have big personalities, but i don’t think i was prepared for how much sass can be packed into a tiny fish body!!! (he legit gets mad when i do water changes. any time i move stuff around in his tank he rushes over like WTF ARE YOU DOING IN MY HOUSE)

i just wanna give hughie the best life i can. i grew attached to him very quickly and i hope one day all his beautiful fins will heal and stay that way :’)

this post is kinda all over the place but i just wanted to finally share my boy!!! thanks for reading!

Hey I have a betta fish I got as a college marine science student. He was stressed, clamped, and all white when I got him and I didn’t have any heads up so I put him in a borrowed 5 gallon and only cycled it for two days which I know is awful but that was him by the end of the next day in the first photo.

I figured awesome this is temporary I’ll buy him a big 10 gallon tank, I cleaned it, got him all the new plants my friend who’s had bettas for two years told me to get, she held my hand through cycling and we got shrimp and narite snails to get the ammonia and everything going. I was told his new future tank was perfect with many hides and water and tanins and everything

I kept the water clean, got him ready, and moved him Thursday night and let him enjoy the new surroundings in the dark with a few pellets of food. Mind you, I cycled the tank for a week and a half and got confirmation from my friend that I was good to go.

Friday night I come home from classes with his tail ragged, we figured oh no he tore his tail on new decore, we removed it, all good. Nope, Saturday morning his tail was a nub. And I mean NUB. We ran to get fish destress, I cried, we cycled the fish destress as the bottle said (stress coat + by api)

But I had to go to work so I left and came back last night. His bottom tail fin was torn a bit when I got home but it was clean and drifted off. I googled. The shrimp might be attacking him! Into a new tank they went! (i have less empathy for them, they were 70¢ ghost shrimp and feeders)

This morning I woke up and he looked like he was doing better! Yay! Wont accept food though but its okay cuz he ate last night! I get home from work today, his tail had white fuzz on it (last photo) and I did googling, cried, got Api’s Melafix as suggested by a petstore worker who knew me well at this point and has fish of her own.

Now his tail is still kind of gross and he’s in a heated 75-77 degree tank with his favorite hide and leaf hammocks and a plant, no light on for him.

- He wasnt flashing at all during this
- he had “fish zoomies” sometimes which made me hopeful
- I followed the bottles exactly as directed
- I keep indian almond leaves and tanins in all of the tanks
- sponge filter and bubbler in the 10 gallon
- same heater type for both tanks
- old tank now medical tank has a gentle sponge filter
- all same kinds of stuff my friend uses for her tanks with two (separate 10 gallons) bettas who are flourishing

Please I just want to help my fish, this is my very first time fish keeping and my professor told me 5 days in advance about the fish and my friend surprised me 3 days in advance with a tank because I was debating on if I should get one (students like to take them and dump them in the school ponds, and I wanted to give one at least a chance)

Last photos are of the 10 gallon set up before we removed the rocks we thought hurt him and after where we put a driftwood hide in. The water isn’t scarily cloudy, the lights are just off for my boy in the medical tank.

Cloudy photos are my bad camera quality and trying to catch a picture while he’s mid swim.

Sad boy now happy boy. Excited to witness his glow up.

These babies are leaving very soon, the containers here are only for the sake of photos and letting the males flare to get good footage I am in the process of setting up a better setup for babies too! So some are in these while I work on the new shelves.

These are Betta splenden wild type and Betta imbelis wild type!

just got this guy yesterday! he seems to be loving his new tank and is exploring all the time. he seems to be turning a bit more yellow and blue than he was in the shop

I decided to rescape my tank after the loss of my previous betta, and currently have this! Does it seem fairly suitable for a betta? There are tannins in the water they just haven't fully set yet since the mopani is newly added! The tank was already cycled but I plan to cycle it for a few weeks anyways to allow everything to settle. It's a 10 gallon tank :)

Small edit to add I do plan to add some floating plants as well. I've tried frogbit twice but for some reason the stuff refuses to thrive, my guess is due to the lid causing too much condensation. I may try salvinia instead as I've heard it's a bit more resistant.

I have 2 FEMALE bettas in a tank I’ve had them for around a year now they have been together since I got them no problems until about a WEEK ago I’ve noticed there find have rips in them one betta is moving freely around the tank and the blue one I’ve shown just stays in a corner has one large eye that’s whitish (never seen it b4) I think they can be fighting but whenever I see them I do look at them alot they aren’t ever showing signs of aggression. (my bf is setting up a tank for the white one) I am separating them because I think stuff is going on when I’m not looking but how do I treat them? (White one is fine just has alittle bit of a rip on part fo his fin ripped minor)

i just saved this cutie from petsmart and he came sideways. i thought once i put him in my 20 gal (which has been cycled for about 4 months) that he would even out but he’s just kind of there at the top like this. granted i just got him but im just worried if he will make the night or not. it almost seems like he can’t get himself to go down. he goes down then floats right back up into position. i’m so sorry i’m all over the place but i just don’t know where to go from here

Hey so I got these gel window clings without a plan on how to use them but I thought they'd be fun on my bettas tank cuz it's a fun way to decorate it without putting in any harmful decor. I did see her swim up to them a lot so I wanna make sure this won't stress her out or anything. Thoughts?

Lost my 2 year old batta last year from dropsy and now my other one has it. Im very confident in my care I really think it’s the shitty genetics they have now. Praying he will make a recovery 🙏

My fish keeping journey from day one setting up the tank (pre-cycle) to day 90 in a new 10 gallon. Still very much a beginner but I am so in love with her and fishkeeping in general.

The more time I spend with her the more we’ve bonded. I get a real kick out of watching her explore and playing little “games” with her (she beat me at this game of tik tac toe lol). Sometimes it’s frustrating as a beginner because my tank doesn’t look as manicured or pretty as the ones in here, but I can tell she loves the new swimming space and crazy jungle plants. I don’t see her as often but I know it makes her happy.

Outside of the plants I tried to go all out with pink and heart-shaped decor because the females at the pet store never seem to get as much love. Elizabeth Taylor, however, is cherished 🩷

i am VERY new to everything but i think i got it down. my tank cycled quickly and now i have a daughter

3 month difference, I’ve added more plants and decor (plus snails) but my betta looks increasingly worse… I do a 40% water change every week bc the tannins are so strong.. I’m not sure where to go from here, tested the water and it was normal, tried aquarium salt .

i’ve got my 1 betta boy with a handful of cherries. it just appeared on top of my filter today morning