Hello!
I must admit I am not a fish lover I have 2 cats and usually find fish kinda boring in comparison.However I was at pets mart getting my cats litter one day and I stopped to look at all the animals and fish just because I love animals and I ran my finger along the cups of some betta's and this Black blue and purple male freaked out and started swimming around.I really liked that while all the other betta's were like whatever this betta was being cool.So I a girl who worked there about them and she said feed him 3 pebbles a day clean his water once every 3 weeks and give him a place to hide and your good..So for about 10 bucks I got my Betta ,a bowl/tank type thing for bettas his food,two trees and colorful gravel.Now after reading this forum I see I should be changing his water more and he does not have a heater but I really don't have time and he seems pretty happy.Infact I had no idea that fish could have such big personality's !.Everynight When I come home I run my finger along the bowl and he follows or swims in place all exited lol and then I stick the tip of my finger in and wiggle it around to say hello (which he know understands comes right before feeding and gets excited lol) then I feed him his pellets.As soon as I grab the pellet container he goes crazy swimming around.Hehe anyway his name is Groove and I've gotten rather attached to the little guy.My questions are though..
What is exercising them and how do you do it?
and I just thought of another question.
The girl at the petstore said to get him out of his bowl with a net when I change the water but he has a large tail and always seems to have a hard time getting out of it.I worry I will hurt his tail what do you think?
I must admit I am not a fish lover I have 2 cats and usually find fish kinda boring in comparison.However I was at pets mart getting my cats litter one day and I stopped to look at all the animals and fish just because I love animals and I ran my finger along the cups of some betta's and this Black blue and purple male freaked out and started swimming around.I really liked that while all the other betta's were like whatever this betta was being cool.So I a girl who worked there about them and she said feed him 3 pebbles a day clean his water once every 3 weeks and give him a place to hide and your good..So for about 10 bucks I got my Betta ,a bowl/tank type thing for bettas his food,two trees and colorful gravel.Now after reading this forum I see I should be changing his water more and he does not have a heater but I really don't have time and he seems pretty happy.Infact I had no idea that fish could have such big personality's !.Everynight When I come home I run my finger along the bowl and he follows or swims in place all exited lol and then I stick the tip of my finger in and wiggle it around to say hello (which he know understands comes right before feeding and gets excited lol) then I feed him his pellets.As soon as I grab the pellet container he goes crazy swimming around.Hehe anyway his name is Groove and I've gotten rather attached to the little guy.My questions are though..
What is exercising them and how do you do it?
and I just thought of another question.
The girl at the petstore said to get him out of his bowl with a net when I change the water but he has a large tail and always seems to have a hard time getting out of it.I worry I will hurt his tail what do you think?