Thursday, August 27, 2009
2 Gallon tank profile: Betta tank
A Betta (a.k.a. Siamese fighting fish) might do best in 5 gallons of more, but my white female Betta seems happy in my two gallon glass bowl with a submersible filter and mini heater (gravel, rocks and various plants). She shares the tank with an unknown number of Malaysian trumpet snails.
Do those come in blue? I'm sure I had a black and blue Siamese fighting fish once.
ReplyDeleteI remember always seeing these when I visited the fish farm with my grandad. They used to be in a separate room at the back with all the scorpions and snakes, one fish per tank :-)
ReplyDeleteThey are so pretty. I had Japanese fighting fish in an aquarium at a night club in which I wa manager. They were vicious little fish.
ReplyDeleteWhat are Malaysian trumpet snails? Do they provide a benefit to the bowl?
ReplyDeleteI absolutely LOVED my beta.. we have 6 cats and the beta bowl was actually a place where the cats got most of their water. The beta had a similar setup with lots of live plants and a good hiding spot. When the cats came near, he went under the log in his bowl and hid.. he lived with us for almost 5 years!!
ReplyDeleteThen we took in a new cat. He lived outdoors for the first few months of his life.. he didnt need to hunt for food anymore, but i guess that didnt sink in right away..
4 days after having this cat in our house, our fish was gone, found under our couch headless.. it was so sad, and I was heart broken. his name was Sid. (like Sid Vicious - we had a female in another tank called Nancy)
Anyways.. he was gorgeous..
I do have a question though.. why do you have a heater in the tank?? surely a tank that small doesnt need to be heated for a Beta fish.
I understand filtration and aeration.. but heat?
I don't know if the trumpet snails do much, I just like them :)
ReplyDeleteI have driftwood in my betta bowl now, she likes to lurk under it :). I put a mini heater in because my apartment can get rather cold. If you keep the house warm it isn't really needed but I am in a studio with a big glass door that just leaks heat!
It must be incredibly relaxing watching an aquarium like that, and it's such a reasonable size, more or less anyone could have one.
ReplyDeleteGoes to show you, that the puddle doesn't have to be big to be enjoyable. It looks quite relaxing!
ReplyDeleteI love reading about your fish. We just lost a goldfish in our pond yesterday. We get so attached.
ReplyDeleteI always thought that fish wouldn't last long in that type of bowl.
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