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Updated to include info: Housing: How many gallons is your tank? 3 Does it have a filter? Yes Does it have a heater? Yes What temperature is your tank? 78-80.5 Does your tank have an air stone or other type of aeration? No Does your Betta have tank mates? What kind? No Food: What food brand do...

Housing What size is your tank? 10 gallon divided. What temperature is your tank? 82 degrees Fahrenheit Does your tank have a filter? Yes Does your tank have an air stone or other type of aeration? No Is your tank heated? Yes What tank mates does your betta fish live with? Assassin Snails...

Hello! I recently got my male betta fish after seeing how cute my friend's was. She told me that he'd be okay in a one gallon glass bowl. After purchasing everything, however, I read up and discovered that my poor baby deserved better. So i freaked out and bought a 2.5 gallon tank with a heater...

this is the first time this has happened!! my fish (florian) seems to be doing his "food dance" (basically he always comes over and seems to beg for food) but today i noticed something strange. it seems like he can't find his food? usually he IMMEDIATELY swoops in for his food!! i put some...

Nothing major, just a sexing question. So, she (as I'm currently calling it) is a black Mystery, happily zooming around right now. I call her Honey because it wound up sticking after I had a scare with the temperature a few days ago. Kept talking to her after I put her back in her water after...

Several months ago (November) I became a first time betta owner. My first betta (male, crowntail, dragonscale) Ferguson Von Spikeyfin and I have had very little troubles (other than a minor freak out I had when I thought he might be developing fin rot and took him to the pet store to have...

I've got two fish with similar troubles, but we'll start with Ryou because he's the one that is scaring me the most. Ryou is a pink veil-tail with blue and purple flecks in his fins and tail. I bought him in November after watching him sit unwanted at the local pet store for three months. He...

Four days ago I got 3 bloodfin tetra as tankmates for my betta, at the suggestion of the store worker. When I first got my betta he seemed more aggressive than the last betta I had--he used to flare at ANYTHING I accidentally placed near the tank, even his food when I dropped it in. Over the...

Is this normal Betta behavior? He darts up and down the tank from time to time, usually wham he sees me. (He's sluggish the rest of the time) He also got silver under his mouth and around his gills. Even his eves got a bit cloudy in one part. The silver seemed to fade a little (very little...

so i have 2 bettas, a male and a female. i got the male first and the female just last weekend. so first, lets talk about the boy: before i got my female, he was really sweet, never flared, was active but not hyper or anything. the day i got my female was the first time i really saw him in an...