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Old 15-05-2008, 09:11 AM
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Hi all......just thought I'd say hello. Recently acquired a corn, ut also keep and breed bettas. We have 8 breeding males and 9 females, and also have 16 juvenile males ready for selling. We also have 3 & 9 week old fry, butterfly's and coppers.
Here's a few of our males........



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Old 15-05-2008, 09:39 AM
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Hey andy, nice to see you in here! Love that first betta
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Old 15-05-2008, 09:56 AM
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Hey andy, nice to see you in here! Love that first betta
Thanks.....thats my wifes purple butterfly "Taro". Have some 9 week old fry from him....unfortunately only 4 survived, lost most at about 2-3 weeks. No reason for it, just one of those things.
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Old 15-05-2008, 05:51 PM
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how do people keep their betta?

i have kept mine in bowls and in tanks.

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Tanks only, bowls are jail cells! just becuase something can live somewhere dosnt mean it should be kept in it, if you know what i mean

stunning bettas BTW
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Tanks only, bowls are jail cells! just becuase something can live somewhere dosnt mean it should be kept in it, if you know what i mean

stunning bettas BTW
A LOT of people keep them in bowls or similar. As long as you actually know what your doing, considering bettas are labyrinths, and you have the time to do enough (probably daily) water changes, and they need to live separatly, its all good.
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Tanks only, bowls are jail cells! just becuase something can live somewhere dosnt mean it should be kept in it, if you know what i mean

stunning bettas BTW

woooah. Careful on here mate you're likely to get your head ripped off for comments like that. Always leave something so you can go back if you need to, there's alot of very very touchy people in here with closed minds


other than that i'd be inclined to agree to an extent (see, leave something so you can change later lol)
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there's alot of very very touchy people in here with closed minds
*cough* *cough*

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Old 15-05-2008, 08:40 PM
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LOL.....on others forums there would have been hell up there

All our males are kept in a minimum of two and a half imp gallons, all heated and filtered with live plants. I wouldn't keep them in anything smaller unless they are very juvenile and then only for a limited time. You dont get to see the best of them in small tanks. However, there are exceptions, some male bettas freak out or sulk in bigger tanks.

We have 16 males waiting to be sold and they are in smaller tanks, but have 2 x 100% water changes every day. We found recently that one of our breeding males had clamped fins, so we put him in one of the smaller tanks and changed his water twice a day.......5 days later he's looking really good
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