Recent content by revdon64

Pretty sure my Bettas know me. They come out when I'm in the room but seem to hide from anyone else.

This is the product image from the Petsmart website. You can see how the whole filter box is inside the tank with the outflow lip below the water level. I agree, it's strange.

A little update about the betta getting in the filter box. Some have suggested that he might be stressed by having company in the tank. Thing is, he's built a fairly large bubble nest. Again, I'm no betta pro, but I find it hard to believe that he'd display mating behaviors while being stressed...

No, I know better than that. Maybe I was unclear. I have two different tanks in two different locations. A 35gal tank at home and a 5gal tank in my office. I have a male betta in each tank. In the 5 at work, where he's getting in the filter box, I also have two corys and a mystery snail. My...

I have three corys, two black loaches, a rubber-lipped pleco, six giant danios, 5 nerite snails, and another male betta in my 35gal tank and no issues whatsoever. What I'm getting here is that the real issue may just be the size of the tank and the individual personality of the fish. Thanks for...

He's going in the outflow which is below the water level. As I mentioned, the whole filter box is inside the tank (something I'm not familiar with outside of a spnge filter). It takes two small cartridges like any other cartridge filter, but there's room inside for water to flow around the...

So if the corys are the problem, could I move them to my 35gal tank and move a black loach to the 5gal as cleanup crew?

It's the filter that came with the tank - TopFin ES-F.

That was in the bigger tank, but I found something else for that tank and moved it to the smaller on. Honestly, It just fits better toward the front.

I recently set up a 5gal freshwater tank on my office desk with the sole intention of keeping a male betta for their noted amusing behavior. My lovely wife bought me a TopFin model with a cartridge filter that hangs inside the tank. It's nice for bettas as it doesn't create a current, something...

Hi, my name is Don and I've been keeping fish off and on for 45 years or so. Last year I was inspired to get back into the hobby and try my hand at some things I'd never done in a tank before (invertebrates/live plants/labyrinthine fish). I'd previously never had more than one tank going at a...