A Good Way For Shops To Display Bettas?

[ellena]

Been thinking about this for a while now. Might not work in the US where shops have large numbers of bettas but I can't see why it wouldn't work in the UK.
Now these aren't something I would condone usually, but they are about the same size as containers I've seen bettas stored in. They could be attached to the front of larger tanks, then the bettas would have fresh, clean, filtered water, couldn't nip or be nipped and be seen clearly by customers.
Win win no?

 

[Verminator89]

Whats different about how they're kept now, or am i missing some very basic principal here?

Every betta, male atleast, that i've seen displayed has had its own little compartment in a long row with its own filtration feeding down the line. So whats different about this one?

 

[Katty]

I really wish more places around me would use those things. And you're right about what you say about the US, I usually see at least 20 bettas on a shelf at a time at the big chain pet stores. There's a smaller LFS though that only has maybe 7 bettas at a time, I'd like to see them use these. But they also sell this nasty nasty heart shaped torture chamber of a betta bowl that was maybe two inches wide, so I don't know if they're really looking out for the bettas too much if they don't mind people keeping them in less than a cup of water.

@Verminator89
A lot of places sell bettas in a plastic cups of water the size of a drinking glass, outside of a tank, with no heating or filtration.

 

[MewMew42]

heres what we use and its very good

there are 2 rows of small tanks 6 a piece with a small hole in teh back of the tank at the top [not so big that the fish can fit through mind] on the bottom row underneath the 6 tanks is a pump and some media the pump will then take water up and pump it along pipes over the 2 rows of tanks, the water will then flow down out the back of the tank, past the media, ready to be pumped back around again

you can see on this image, teh fish and teh space it has and teh water being tricked into the tank from above

I clean them out every week

 

[plecostomus-mad]

my local lfs puts betta's in with other fish mates so that they get a bigger space they dont put them in with fish they would attack, or vice versa

 

[keithp]

In the US we can have upwards of 100 bettas or more per store, so this would not be solved here. They would have to sell only about 20 bettas at a time for this to work.

 

[ellena]

Verminator, I've never seen a system like that. Round here, they are either in small unfiltered containers, or 1 per tank with fish which often nip them ragged.
That system is great mewmew I just thought this is a cheap and easy adaptation for LFS to make without having to install anything.

 

[mystus]

A mewmew how does it work? is it like a drip system with the bottom being media and then getting pumped back?

I could see a lfs having a couple of thoughs in all the tanks but that would be alot of those. if they put the condos in with say tetras the only problem would be you couldn't see the tetras but i think that would be alot better then cups.