Best betta tank!

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currently have my mothers birthday gift betta in a 20 litre tank, filtered heated usual.
want to upgrade it to a 6 gallon plus planted tho, or extremely tempted to pinch the fish and put it in my 30 gallon planted i'm building.

the person who got the betta for her came with a bowl with clown puke in the bottom -_- quickly remedyed that, altho the tacky castle ornament "had to be kept"

cranky specimen of a betta tho, flares up at everything.
 
no pic at the moment, but my little girl is in my 20g community tank, soon to be 45g. she loves all the space! i don't care that "they come from blah blah blah", that doesn't mean that they enjoy being kept in something barely big enough to turn around. glados is always swimming around and rarely hids in small corners. temperature is ~78°, and her current tankmates are: 1 halfbeak, 2 sailfin balloon mollies, 2 glofish, 1 bamboo shrimp, 7 small shrimp, lots of snails. filter is fluval 305, and everything will remain the same once in the 45 [though perhaps more friends lol]. also have a 2.5 dual betta tank with two males. cheap filter that came with it [lots of water changes; also the filter creates almost no current, it is very gentle. mostly i've got it to help with keeping my water cycled correctly] and ~78°. had to silicone the edges of the divider though when i first got it; within two minutes of being in the tank one had slipped through a space between the divider and the tank into the other side. glad it happened while i was watching! they don't pay much attention to eachother though, which is good, or else i'd not keep them near eachother
 
noy3k;5039975; said:
I was pondering how tiny the betta fish is and its requirements for filtration.
A setup I would do is probably a 2 gallon tank with many low light plants: java moss, ferns, etc.
The plants would filter enough for a single betta right?
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plants do not filter. they do no use to ammonia or nitr[i?]tes [can't remember which, i know it's one and not the other]. they only do away with nitr[a?]tes. or at least this is my experience with my planted tanks. you still need to do water changes. also, as bettas get older, they do actually get a little bigger than they are sold to you in the store. i've seen some pretty fat little bettas. though a two gallon tank is probably *enough* room for one [see my previous post, i stick to "the bigger, the better"]
 
143629;4824656; said:
my daughter keeps her betta "lightning" in the fluval spec.
he does not like it when the filter is on though. so everytime we have the filter on i would have to put him in a cup and place the cup on top of the tank.
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I had the same issue with my Fluval spec. When I bought it I thought it was an awesome little tank, but the flow is wildly inappropriate for bettas (turns over the tank 20 times per hour-- yikes). I immediately modified mine so that the flow is much slower, and he's a much happier fish.
 
I keep a pair (Violet & Beau) in a planted 10 with a couple breeding pairs of platy, 4 Kuhli loaches, an Oto and a few ghost shrimp with absolutely no problems. I wanted to move them to the 45 community tank (dojo loaches, 4 line cat, juvenile platy, couple of gourami, pair of gold fin tetra, 3 zebra danio, and a pair of Oto's for "maintenance"), but I read that It's likely Beau would attack the gourami.
Since I have a spare 10, I'm thinking of making a handsome love den, sans the shag carpeting.
 
I have one up at work thats pretty sweet IMO , need to get some good pictures but its a 5gallon planted bowfront tank with crazy filtration.
 
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