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I am rescaping Jippy's tank.
He is in a 5 gallons for now (filter and heater and thermometer are given).
have pebbles for substrate, one large river rock, one terra cotta pot as a cave.
In the tank i have 1 anubia sp & 3 pieces of java fern, 2 silk plants.
I have a piece of driftwood to attach the anubia and java fern to and I still have to find some frogbit for upper coverage and maybe an apple snail for company.
Does he need a dry almond leaf bed?, a arch or a bridge?, marbles ?(to keep him interrested)
Did you find that bettas will play with the decor?
Do you have an element in your tank you find great for a betta to have or be around?
Thanks for your suggestion,
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Scatter a bunch of small mirrors throughout the tank
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I believe years ago I read about people actually using mirrored backgrounds in order to induce flaring. Those must have been some stressed out bettas.
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What you have sounds good to me. Changing it up via a rescaping should be good for him, as long as you do that sometimes he'll be fine.
Mirrors...not good. Anything that has them flaring a lot isn't great. Maybe check that background? You don't want split fins...
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African almond leaf is good, but -may- tint the tank water. I use Attison's Betta spa which contains the extract of the leaf. I have one Betta who, if this is not in his tank, almost immediately starts having fin rot problems, though other Betta, without the additive are fine. Go figure.
2 10 gallon tanks, 1 20 gallon tank, 1 Fluval Edge, 1 29 gallon tank, and one backyard pond.
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 Originally Posted by bethyMT
Mirrors...not good. Anything that has them flaring a lot isn't great.
I apologize if I wasn't clear in my humor, but you're correct that mirrors and bettas don't mix very well. I don't want anyone thinking I was serious and start actually sticking a bunch of mirrors in their betta tanks lol.
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 Originally Posted by funkman262
I apologize if I wasn't clear in my humor, but you're correct that mirrors and bettas don't mix very well. I don't want anyone thinking I was serious and start actually sticking a bunch of mirrors in their betta tanks lol.
Yes, no scares, no worries either
understood: they look beautiful.
understand: you don't want make them think their territory is being invaded constantly, it is stressful!
I am sorry I knew it wasn't serious.
I don't want anyone to think I would do that as well and I can already clarify a little, i did notice the background which I first found weird as it is the regular/standard deep blue. I then watched, and saw from behind and the left side of the tank there is sometimes early morning the first sun rays coming at a certain angle and this is when I think he can see his reflection. I changed the place of the tank already and I will see if this is better or not, if not obviously I will change the background.
Last edited by Delphe; 01-17-2013 at 12:48 AM.
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Depends on the betta. I have one who has a habit of rearranging her tank gravel by color, and I have seen another scooting plastic shells and small ornamental glowing plastic "river stones" across the bottom of the tank.
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+1 to switching around the tank every now and then. I don't find that bettas play per se with the decor, but they do like to investigate as well as taste things XD What you have sounds pretty good. I have never used indian almond leaf before, I have read that it is useful, but I have not seen any detrimental effects of not using it.
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