New here with questions

[teresa]

fuzzyferretluver said:

1.) What do you keep your betta in? (I'm asking this to you personally) How big is it?

I did have a divided 10 and 2 5.5gal tanks for bettas, with changing curcimstances, we are going to try dividing a large tank with plexiglass for all four bettas.

fuzzyferretluver said:

2.) What do you use as substrate? Is gravel or sand better?

I have had gravel, sand and bare bottom tanks. I hate gravel, i like sand for bigger community tanks, and for my bettas, I think bare is best.

fuzzyferretluver said:

3.) I already have some betta food. How much should you feed and how often?
Thanks!

I have tried a few different foods, and my boys will not eat flakes, and strangely, not one of them like FD bloodworms. I use Nutrafin basix Betta pellets, 4 pellets/betta 2X/day. They all love them, with an occasion treat of FD rainone Brine Shrimp.

As for mixing chemicals from different companies...be very careful as that can be risky as there is now way to know what kind of reaction the mixing can cause.

[crazkat]

It's tap water so i need to get rid of all that fun chlorine and cholramine and amnonia and metal.

[amanichen]

crazkat said:

It's tap water so i need to get rid of all that fun chlorine and cholramine and amnonia and metal.

Does your tap water have chlorine or chloramine?

What products do you currently have?

[crazkat]

I'm pretty sure that my tap water's got cholorine in it and i have "betta bowl essential Kent Freshwater" and "tap water conditioner" by aquarium pharmaceuticals, Inc.

[amanichen]

crazkat said:

I'm pretty sure that my tap water's got cholorine in it and i have "betta bowl essential Kent Freshwater" and "tap water conditioner" by aquarium pharmaceuticals, Inc.

If you're sure that your tap water has chlorine then use the stuff from kent, that should be sufficient. In the future, look to something like Prime or AquaPlus or Aquasafe.

[crazkat]

ok, thank you!