So after my red halfmoon jaws died in a horrible water change accident this past week decided to go to a new petco and buy a new betta, was split between a couple of beautiful half moons and baby , decided to go with this yellow baby betta here and i have a couple of questions
1. do baby bettas need to be fed more often than adults?
2. should i do water changes more often? say every other day instead of twice a week? he will be kept in a one gallon unfiltered aqueon mini bow with a heater for the time bein
3. i purchased NLS betta food pellets since there smaller, but so far i put two pellets in and it seems uninterested, do i need to crush the food up in small pieces?
3. can you tell by the pics sex/fin type?
What a pretty Betta.....I would feed him/her more to get best growth/development....good quality varied diet in small frequent meals-if you have access to live foods...all the better....especially live mosquito larva if you have access to some-gather a few each day, rinse under running water-add so that he/she has to chase them.
Freshwater fish thrive with fresh water and young fish will grow better with low nitrate and DOC's.....
In a 1gal unfiltered tank (perfect btw) I would make 3 weekly water changes of 50% with 100% monthly....with adults you want to make twice weekly-1-50% and 1-100%-but with young fish and a lot of food-3 times a week....Be sure and properly acclimate to the chemistry/temp with the 100% by adding small amount of the new tank water to the holding cup over 10-15min. If you have live plant to add all the better.....
I would keep the temp at 78-80F....
It is hard to tell by the pics the sex and fin type-once you get it in the tank-use a mirror and see if you can get it to flare and snap a pic so we can see all the fins all flared out.....
Its also a good idea to exercise him/her every day too-by either using a mirror and/or placing food on the tip of a tooth pick an making him/her chase it around-also by chasing the live food will provide some exercise too.....
Good luck and look forward to watching him/her grow and develop into a beautiful Betta......
thanks for all the great info, yea so far his water temp is sitting @ 80 , i have tried crush NLS and Aqueon pellets in the couple of hours i have had it but has not eating yet , hopefully it will build up an appetite over night
yeah i noticed that petco started selling baby bettas, its quite hard to distinguish what they will grow up to become. I like that yellow on the betta!
Great info. I rescued a baby from Petco yesterday. I have been feeding him/her freeze dried mosquito larvae and so far so good. Mine is reddish-orange and gets after the food like it's his/her last meal.
I have been feeding mosquito larva and any other critter I collect to my fish for many, many years without problems......I use a brine shrimp net to collect-then rinse well with clean water-then feed.....
lol this little guy poops so much, more than any of my adult bettas, now i understand why when raising fry there needs to be so many water changes
they grow fast too, he is already a bit bigger than the pic, i will add pics in about two weeks, should be 2x or 3x times bigger
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