Betta's In A Shop...

[Schmill]

I just wanted to post this here to find out if this is the 'norm'.

I know Betta's have to be carefully kept, and tank mates carefully chosen, but is this the way they are normally kept in a shop?

It just seems like such a small space for them, and they all look so unhappy, fins all down and tucked away...

 

[nosoup4you]

No, those tanks are actually huge compared to the way they are usually kept in fish stores. They are usually kept in something more like this:

 

[drobbyb]

Sadly this is true.

 

[nosoup4you]

And here's how they are shipped:

 

[SharonCC]

Bettas here are kept in cups.Those cubes actually look great to house Bettas for sale...

 

[Schmill]

Some of those other pictures are truely shocking! Those poor fish!

In a way I am actually quite relieved... I happen to like this fish shop, and always thought that the Betta boxes seemed to let them down a bit, but now I see that they are actually better than most in this respect

Even so though, surely these fishes need more space than ANY of these containers to swim around in?

 

[rdd1952]

I would think that those are set up that way more to sell the cubes than for the bettas. Most shops don't have the space to keep 20+ bettas in larger containers and they usually only have them for a few days before they are sold.

 

[nosoup4you]

I would think that those are set up that way more to sell the cubes than for the bettas. Most shops don't have the space to keep 20+ bettas in larger containers and they usually only have them for a few days before they are sold.

I would have to agree....

 

[wendywc]

Those cubes in the first post look awesome!

 

[Faythee]

Look similar to mine. It is 3 U.S. Gallons.

 

[ThePiggy]

It's sad that things like this get sold as betta HOMES... they aren't even sufficient for an overnight stay.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

And here's how they are shipped:

Thats actually the proper way to ship betta. If you have too much water they will run out of oxygen, and if you have too much space they will be thrown around and be damaged.

 

[shelaghfishface]

thats at leats 5x as much room as they get in my lfs,

 

[LauraFrog]

I would only ship a betta like that in a kordon bag, surely that much splashing would occur to damage their fins as much as if they had been shipped in a larger bag. This also promotes fin chewing (and melafix wasting by betta rescuers who can't stand seeing them kept badly).

I personally have seen bettas in a shop kept in drinking cups - that's 250ml or 1/16th US gallon - which are so narrow the fish could not sit horizontally in the water, but were obliged to tilt up or down because of the lack of space.

 

[Truck]

a betta in my opinion should have a tank around 3 gallons plus