Comments for Healthy Betta http://www.healthybetta.com Your #1 Source for Betta and Tropical Fish Care Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:46:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on What’s your favorite thing about bettas? by Map http://www.healthybetta.com/favorite-thing-about-bettas#comment-77 Map Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:13:10 +0000 http://www.healthybetta.com/?p=196#comment-77 Yes there finnage is beautiful when they swim, but I would say that I'm very impressed at how smart they are. They love looking at the life outside there tank. They are little pigs when it comes to dinner time they beg just like a dog!!! Love em!!!! Yes there finnage is beautiful when they swim, but I would say that I’m very impressed at how smart they are. They love looking at the life outside there tank. They are little pigs when it comes to dinner time they beg just like a dog!!! Love em!!!!

]]> Comment on What’s your favorite thing about bettas? by Blues G- mom http://www.healthybetta.com/favorite-thing-about-bettas#comment-76 Blues G- mom Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:17:37 +0000 http://www.healthybetta.com/?p=196#comment-76 My daughters Betta (Blue. short for Blue-octane)), is very active. I love his color, deep blue, with a vibrant red in his tail. Looks like fire when the light catches him! His tail is very beautiful & full, like a giant fan! He has quite the personality! He is very curious. When we feed him (always from the same side of the tank); he is always right there! Usually coming right to the surface close to the spot where fingers drop in the pellets! When we take pictures of him, he will swim right in front of the camera,. Many times just floating there watching us as much as we are watching him! He is not shy! I love to watch him make bubble nests, he goes crazy swimming back & forth. Sometimes he even covers most of the edges of the entire 10 gallon tank! (Busy fellow!) He has a cave that has an entrance & a window...he likes to hide there a lot, also going in & out. He always catches the "jet stream"...riding the "flow" of the water filter is a favorite past-time of his! Body surfing , fish style! My daughter calls him her "crazy" fish! He seems like hes having a blast! My daughters Betta (Blue. short for Blue-octane)), is very active. I love his color, deep blue, with a vibrant red in his tail. Looks like fire when the light catches him! His tail is very beautiful & full, like a giant fan!

He has quite the personality! He is very curious. When we feed him (always from the same side of the tank); he is always right there! Usually coming right to the surface close to the spot where fingers drop in the pellets! When we take pictures of him, he will swim right in front of the camera,. Many times just floating there watching us as much as we are watching him! He is not shy!

I love to watch him make bubble nests, he goes crazy swimming back & forth. Sometimes he even covers most of the edges of the entire 10 gallon tank! (Busy fellow!)
He has a cave that has an entrance & a window…he likes to hide there a lot, also going in & out. He always catches the “jet stream”…riding the “flow” of the water filter is a favorite past-time of his! Body surfing , fish style!
My daughter calls him her “crazy” fish! He seems like hes having a blast!

]]> Comment on What’s your favorite thing about bettas? by Matthew http://www.healthybetta.com/favorite-thing-about-bettas#comment-73 Matthew Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:27:37 +0000 http://www.healthybetta.com/?p=196#comment-73 I love how freindly and cute they are and how they blow their bubble nets I love how freindly and cute they are and how they blow their bubble nets

]]> Comment on What’s your favorite thing about bettas? by Katherine http://www.healthybetta.com/favorite-thing-about-bettas#comment-72 Katherine Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:21:03 +0000 http://www.healthybetta.com/?p=196#comment-72 I got my betta to liven up my dorm room. I thought he'd be goldfishy and swim around lazily all the time. I was surprised to find he had quite a personality! I'd have to say that my favourite thing about him is the way he manages to constantly surprise me, even though he's just a fish. The day I took him home it was night-time and I thought he was blue, but when the sun came in the next morning, he was actually bright purple! I thought only small children liked to keep fish, but I realized that I'm very attached to Arby. I'll be sad if something happens to him. I got my betta to liven up my dorm room. I thought he’d be goldfishy and swim around lazily all the time. I was surprised to find he had quite a personality! I’d have to say that my favourite thing about him is the way he manages to constantly surprise me, even though he’s just a fish. The day I took him home it was night-time and I thought he was blue, but when the sun came in the next morning, he was actually bright purple! I thought only small children liked to keep fish, but I realized that I’m very attached to Arby. I’ll be sad if something happens to him.

]]> Comment on Betta Care: How to Perform Water Changes by Matt Luney http://www.healthybetta.com/betta-care-how-to-perform-water-changes#comment-71 Matt Luney Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:17:27 +0000 http://www.healthybetta.com/?p=184#comment-71 Yes! great info we have been waiting for! but, it is never a good idea to pour too much of the old water back in a fully changed tank (NOTE FULLY 100% changed) as though you could be spreading harmful ich and other disease that may have gotten into your tank without you knowin it. I recommend forming a dam with a spatula with holes and pouring some of the water out (protecting your betta with the spatula dam, your little friend will naturally swim away from the outgoing water (normally) just at the last millisecond pour him in. He will be fine (low/lower stress) and will love his new water (assuming you follow the above posts GREAT advice. Yes! great info we have been waiting for! but, it is never a good idea to pour too much of the old water back in a fully changed tank (NOTE FULLY 100% changed) as though you could be spreading harmful ich and other disease that may have gotten into your tank without you knowin it. I recommend forming a dam with a spatula with holes and pouring some of the water out (protecting your betta with the spatula dam, your little friend will naturally swim away from the outgoing water (normally) just at the last millisecond pour him in. He will be fine (low/lower stress) and will love his new water (assuming you follow the above posts GREAT advice.

]]> Comment on Betta Food: What to Feed Your Fish by Richard Partridge http://www.healthybetta.com/betta-food-what-to-feed#comment-69 Richard Partridge Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:50:27 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/hb/?p=31#comment-69 Here is another relatively new food that I've added to my bettas' diet rotation: Seachem NutriDiet Naturals - fly larvae. My bettas LOVE this food, turning into little sharks when it's offered! Using a pair of tweezers, I wiggle one of the larvae in front of the betta's face and he readily gulps it down. Two to three larvae make a decent meal for the average-sized male betta. Ingredients: Whole fly larvae (Musca domestica). Not intended for human consumption. Guaranteed Analysis: Crude Protein 16.7% min Crude Fat 5.7% min Crude Fiber 0.8% max Crude Ash 2.1% max Moisture Content 75.7% max My local PetSmarts carry all four varieties: fly larvae, meal worms, fish eggs shrimp. Here is a link to these products on Drs. Foster & SMith, a site that usually provides complete ingredient and nutritional information: http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+7927+16870&pcatid=16870 Here is another relatively new food that I’ve added to my bettas’ diet rotation: Seachem NutriDiet Naturals - fly larvae.

My bettas LOVE this food, turning into little sharks when it’s offered! Using a pair of tweezers, I wiggle one of the larvae in front of the betta’s face and he readily gulps it down. Two to three larvae make a decent meal for the average-sized male betta.

Ingredients: Whole fly larvae (Musca domestica). Not intended for human consumption.

Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein
16.7% min
Crude Fat
5.7% min
Crude Fiber
0.8% max
Crude Ash
2.1% max
Moisture Content
75.7% max

My local PetSmarts carry all four varieties: fly larvae, meal worms, fish eggs shrimp.

Here is a link to these products on Drs. Foster & SMith, a site that usually provides complete ingredient and nutritional information:
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+7927+16870&pcatid=16870

]]> Comment on Download: 1-page Basic Betta Care Sheet by isa http://www.healthybetta.com/download-1-page-basic-betta-care-sheet#comment-68 isa Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:54:40 +0000 http://www.healthybetta.com/?p=189#comment-68 thank y ou! thank y ou!

]]> Comment on Betta Anatomy by Lizard http://www.healthybetta.com/betta-anatomy#comment-67 Lizard Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:39:34 +0000 http://www.healthybetta.com/?p=180#comment-67 Male bettas flare with their gills, not their Pectoral fins( those are like hands but for a fish) =+) Male bettas flare with their gills, not their Pectoral fins( those are like hands but for a fish) =+)

]]> Comment on What’s your favorite thing about bettas? by Nicole http://www.healthybetta.com/favorite-thing-about-bettas#comment-66 Nicole Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:40:23 +0000 http://www.healthybetta.com/?p=196#comment-66 i love that i know my fish so well like the fact that when i feed him i have to leave the room. if i stay in the room he won't eat. and that when he goes to the bottom of the fish tank he's nervous. when i first got him i was in the car and he would be at the bottom for the whole time. AND H IS SO PRETTY!! I LOVE HIM i love that i know my fish so well like the fact that when i feed him i have to leave the room. if i stay in the room he won’t eat. and that when he goes to the bottom of the fish tank he’s nervous. when i first got him i was in the car and he would be at the bottom for the whole time. AND H IS SO PRETTY!! I LOVE HIM

]]> Comment on Betta Care: Tank Mates by Rob http://www.healthybetta.com/betta-care-tank-mates#comment-59 Rob Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:18:02 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/hb/?p=16#comment-59 i have a male betta in a tank with 2 dwarf frogs, 5 neon tetras and a silver tip shark. The only problem i had was once my dog scared the shark, and the shark slammed into a tetra and killed it. i have a male betta in a tank with 2 dwarf frogs, 5 neon tetras and a silver tip shark. The only problem i had was once my dog scared the shark, and the shark slammed into a tetra and killed it.

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