(Mike) wrote:

I eventually was hoping to use my existing 10G, so that I could
add some tetras, too. Bad idea?

Not a bad idea at all, though it will depend on the personality of the
individual betta. He'll certainly like having the room to swim around
int, but he might not like having tankmates. No way to tell until you
try. I had a male betta in a 20 gallon planted community tank for
months with no problems at all.

it does seem logical that the dead crap is going to have to fall
off for new to grow back. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

No, that makes sense.

One last question: the only food I could find here is "Aqua Culture
Betta Pellet Food." I was wary of it because it says "color enhancing
fish food," but that's all I could find. Is this OK to be feeding him?

It should be fine, but you should give the fish a bit more variety. I
feed my bettas mostly Top Fin Betta Bits, but every couple of days
they get freeze dried bloodworms, and once in a great while a little
bit of flake food. And in the summer when mosquitoes are all over the
place, I feed them any I happen to catch.

PS, for future reference, do you guys prefer that I top post, bottom
post, or somewhere in the middle? It seems to change for each NG, and
since I'm posting fairly often here...

This seems to be generally a bottom post group. I personally like
interspersed replies like the one I made here, with anything not
relevant trimmed away, but I realize it's more work.

But figure you made yourself popular already by just asking the
question!


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