Betta Vases - Not what you think I'm gonna say!

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TheOneThatGotAway

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I'm sure you've all heard the horror stories of the "Betta in a Vase" kits. The fish couldn't breathe, couldn't find the food among the roots, stuff like that. Well. I had one, once. I had a horror story of a different sort. My betta was fine. You could even say he thrived. The fish did better than the plant. The plant was some kind of water lily. The leaves kept dying and the flowers never bloomed. The betta ended up eating the roots. He outlived that plant by a good year or two lol.

So. For you guys, feel free to share your betta vase experiences!
 
The betta ate the roots? Bettas don't eat plants. The biggest problem with the betta vases is people though it was a self containted ecosystem where the betta ate the plant, the plant cleaned the water. Of course nether is true and so the betta either died or starvation or from water quality. Done right you can keep them alive in one for some time but I don't like them, I prefer at least a 5g for bettas.
 
Bettas are carnivores so it wouldn't thrive in that vase.
Just buy some Betta food and change the water, its not that hard to do :)
 
Yeah i have a 1.6g for bettas. and if he wasn't eating the roots, maybe he was just taking out his anger on it lol.

I gave him betta food, but he refused it. He preferred regular fish flakes and brine shrimp. And no, taking care of the fish wasn't hard, but that plant got way out of hand. forgot to mention that only half of it grew as well.
 
We used to have bettas in typical small vase setups at our bank. One day they were gone, I decided I wanted an objective viewpoint of bettas in vases. I asked,yes I found out they had died and they had lived almost a year in the vase setups.
Not great when you consider they can live longer...Though not the terrible death traps some make them out to be either it seems.

It seems that if the room temp is warm, a betta in say a two- five gal vase could do well.
 
As for getting enough oxygen into the water, you'd need a plant that was at least partially submerged. Plants release oxygen through the stomata, which are located on the undersides of their leaves. Plants that have only stems and roots in the water will contribute minimally, if at all, to dissolved oxygen content in the water
 
Druu;1183123; said:
As for getting enough oxygen into the water, you'd need a plant that was at least partially submerged. Plants release oxygen through the stomata, which are located on the undersides of their leaves. Plants that have only stems and roots in the water will contribute minimally, if at all, to dissolved oxygen content in the water
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It wouldn't be a problem though because Bettas get oxygen from the air, right???
 
erikmasher;1183614; said:
It wouldn't be a problem though because Bettas get oxygen from the air, right???
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They are labyrinth fish so they are able, but the also get some oxygen from the dissolved oxygen in the water. A lower D.O. content will mean more frequent surfacing.
 
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