"Tynk" wrote in message
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Finally a good article on Bettas in Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine.
(Koi-Lo...please read it.

Post the article here. I don't get that magazine anymore.

It basically says every thing I have been
saying over and over that you claim is my own opinion, and not fact.

I didn't say it was not FACT. I said there are other ways to keep bettas
than in filtered, heated tanks.

Learn something and give your bettas the proper care they need!)

Maybe you need to learn that bettas do very well and live long lives in
other than heated and filtered tanks.

It's in the September issue, pg. 86.
The only thing it lacked was the proper pronunciation of Betta
("bet-uh").
Some highlights:
Water temp...80*f

And mine live over 4 1/2 years in less than that.

Ideal set up is planted tank (not a bowl or vase).

Ideal, not mandatory.

Vases are "sorely inadequate habitats".

Vases? Vases are for flowers?!?!?!

Minimum volume for a single Betta is 1g, preferably 2 or 3 gallons.
Room temps are not adequate, unless the room temp is at tropical temps
(high 70's-low80's).

My bettas never read that.

Their ability to breathe air and therefore not asphyxiate in a small
amount of water often condems them to a lingering death from ammonia
poisoning in a vase or bowl.

As though ammonia doesn't form in a gallon tank or bowl. To avoid ammonia
you rinse the bowl and it's gravel in dechlored water and use a small plant
which isn't rinsed at all. I learned this from a NY breeder long ago. I
use water lettuce which stays small indoors. The nitrifying bacteria are
not killed off using this technique. Few breeders can afford (or have the
room for) hundreds of heated planted tanks for their bettas.

So folks, please get those poor Bettas out of the vases or bowls!
They shouldn't be there!
And Koi-Lo...don't argue. It only shows your ignorance of proper Betta
husbandry.

And your ignorance of bettas and other ways to keep them........... for
years! ;-)
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KL....
Aquariums since 1952.
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