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Betta Fish Care

Betta fish will do fine even in small containers. This is due to the fact that they can breathe air directly like us humans with the help of a special organ called labyrinth organ which is situated on the top of their head. The betta fish are able to also breathe like the other fish using their gills. Betta fish care tip # 1 is that small bowls are fine with betta fish for the above given reasons.

The betta fish are also well known as Siamese fighting fish due to the fact that they are very territorial in nature and fight with other fish violently when any other fish enters their territory. The betta fish also protects their territory from other betta fish, not even a female betta fish can enter their territory. Great that I am not a betta fish…I would love to have female companions in my house. For this reason if you place a female betta fish, you are bound to end up with a dead female betta fish just with in minutes. This gives us the next tip about caring for your betta fish. The care #2 is keep only one fish per bowl.

The bowls of betta fish should always be kept away from the places where the temperature tends to be very hot or too cold. Ideally, the temperature of the water should be maintained around 70 to 80 degrees. Betta fish care tip #3 is to keep the temperature around 70 and 80 and to avoid very hot and very cold places to keep the bowl.

Ideally, feed your betta fish up to three times a day. You have to give the food you bought from the store and make sure you do not over feed your beta. Betta fish care tip #4, feed up to 3 times a day.

Cleaning the bowl and changing of the water should be done once a week as the water start to become dirty. It is recommended to use water which was kept stagnant for a day for removal of chemicals. You have to tranfer your betta fish to this water which has been kept aside and then clean the bowl. While cleaning the bowel be sure that you do not use any soap, and if need be, you can use a mild soap. When you use soap, it is recommended to clean and rince the bowel, rocks, and plants thoroughly to remove any soap in the bowel. Now you can transfer your the betta fish along with the water to the bowl. Betta fish care tip #5 you have to change water once a week but it can be said that this duration depens upon the of the fish bowl.

Betta fish is also spelled beta fish. This is a beautiful little fish with brilliant colors and long tail and ohter fins. The betta fish is naturally is not so beautiful fish, but the beauty and brilliance is a result selective breeding by humans. Just imagine how it would feel to have small little beautiful being in your living room and also funny to see the aggressive fighting beauty, and naming them with suitable betta fish names itself if a funny activity.

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When breeding betta fish, it can be a rather difficult and time consuming process and you need to be dedicated and willing to put the effort in for your betta fish to breed with each other. You will know when your betta fish are ready for each other because they will do the embrace which is when the male betta fish wraps his body around the female betta fish, almost as though he is hugging the eggs right out of her.

As the female betta fish releases her eggs, the male betta will use his sperm to fertilize them and then he will begin his fatherly duties right away and care for the young. As soon as the male betta begins to scoop up the eggs with his mouth and put them into his nest then you should use the opportunity to scoop the female out of the tank and put her back into her own tank because that is her role done!

Watching the male betta fish take care of the eggs can be quite fascinating. Over two days the male will tend to the nest and scoop up any eggs which fall out of the nest and return them to the surface again. After two days you will begin to notice the small fry emerging from the nest. They do need to stay in the next for at least 36 hours so that their gills can develop and the male betta will continue to scoop up the babies and bring them back up to the surface. Usually around two days after they hatch the fry will begin to swim independently and you should remove the male betta from the tank because he could end up eating all of the young!

Breeding betta fish can be an amazing experience and once the fish have bred and the babies have been born then you need to start taking care of your baby betta fish. It can be quite difficult breeding betta’s in a tank environment because baby betta’s have small mouths and feed on the small microscopic beasts which live naturally in ponds and aquariums can run out of these quite quickly but you can breed the food that they need. You can do this by taking a large jar and filling it with some tank water and then put some grass or straw into the jar and then all you have to do is place the jaw on a sunny window sill. This will take about four days and once the small organisms are ready then you should scoop some of the water off of the top and then add it straight into the tank which contains the baby betta, instant betta food.

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Betta Fish Care

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