splendidbetta

:) It's just a platinum blue grizzle HMPK that I had saved on my hard drive, breeder from bettas4all.nl, I think. Photoshopped and cropped to alter color. It matches AAQ too I reckon. I'm really loving Teal at the moment. *lol*

Lol thanks Abbey

You've had yours for ages. Means you're easily recognizable in threads

For your new avatar, may I suggest an ++ empty cheese dispenser ++ ?

Better now? It's also colour-coded to match the forum *lol*

Is my text too long? :)

You don't need to use salt, but some people swear by it. I only use sodium chloride when I need to treat an illness, but I do use blue aquarium salts which can be bought in a small pack at an lfs. Bettas should be kept in temperatures between 26 and 30*C. There should be very little fluctuation in temperature. So a heater might be needed even where you live. 2 Days ageing sounds ok. I don't use geo liquid. I use a good bottled echlorinator, treats 10 liters with 4 drops, although I usually double or triple that 50% WC twice a week sounds fine. Bettas like dry foods like small floating/slow-sinking pellets, Freezedried brineshrimp or bloodworms or daphnia or tubifex worms. They also love those foods in their live state as well as frozen. It's up to you to decide what you want to feed them, I feed mine a variety of foods; Freezdried tubifex, frozen brineshrimp, frozen bloodworms, live bloodworms, mosquito larvae, grindal worms, Tim Addis dry food. It is a good idea to test pH regularly. Bettas usually get bored of eachother after a while. You can keep your bettas from seeing eachother by putting a peice of card in between their containers, or up against the dividing glass. Remove it once or twice a day to let them flare for 15 mins. Dried banana leaf usually needs to be found fresh and then dried, or if you are lucky, picked dry off the plant. If you can't find the leaf yourself, there are several member who might be able to send you some. Bettas are labyrinth fish. This means they have a special organ which allows them to obtain oxygen from the atmosphere as well as the water. So Bettas need to breath air to thrive. I don't think a lot of direct sunlight is good for bettas. E.g, you wouldn't put them right in front of an uncovered window, as you'd only see silhouettes. Too much light can make algae grow, and can stress the fish out. 12 Hrs a day is enough, I think. I recently found out that light actually promotes diseases like Velvet, because velvet is a parasitic alga which likes to have some light to thrive. Most people keep their bettas in container holding upwards of 1 litre. And yes, bettas can get worms. There is a very good thread in the Clinic forum which talks about treating wormy bettas with Avitrol (a bird wormer). As well as searching Ausaqua (which is one of the best forums for bettas and IMHO the best one in Australia), you can look through sites like bettysplendens.com and bettatalk.com. HTH, and I'm sure you'll get quite a few more responses from other members :)

and also provide them a link to where you posted their images so they are able to check where it is posted and in what context. They should have the ability to respond to any posts regarding their photos should they wish.

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