How Much Do They Cost?

[K.J.]

How much do 2.5 gallon tanks cost in your area? A bare acrylic one with a lid, at petsmart 9.99.. at lfs twenty dollars. What losers. Plus they rip off the lid and sell it for five dollars extra. Humph.

Edit: I suppose I could have posted this in Chit Chat, but this has to do with bettas (tanks) so...

 

[screennamie]

I got mine for free. Some one in the dorms put it in the trash room and when I walked by was like "oooh, I wonder if anyone is gonna grab that." we had a neat trash room it was up on a shelf calling my name sitting next to the pizza boxes every time I'd walk by.

I grabbed it cleaned it out really good just hot water and soap and rinsed really good. Got some gold fish/feeders that lived until they got huge cause I got a penplax filter to help em out water quality wise. Then I moved out and bought a bigger 10 gal that now has all my other fish in it.

I did see my plastic tank at the grocery store for about the same price I paid for my 10 gal. wich was around $10.00. In my opinion its cheaper just to go about a medium size tank between 10 to 20 or so gal. I know some of the guys on here consider that small. But its about as big as I can handle right now.

Besides you can keep a beta in anything really. Coolest thing I've seen when I lived in the dorms was a girl found an old blender used for margaritas at the bars round town and thats what she used for a tank; after cleaning and spicing it up with blue gravel and a plastic plant.

 

[SPLiSH]

A 2.5 gal Kritter Keeper is about $15 here. That's with a lid though.

 

[Synirr]

$10 or so for a bare 2.5 gallon. At work the 2.5s, 5s, and 10s are all the same price, which is kinda odd to me, but it's like that everywhere from what I've seen.

 

[Kittles_yang]

Ours over here at Milwaukee in is about 8.99-20ish dollars....$8.99 just for the 2.5 and the $20ish is the 2.5 with the lid and the light....so if i were you...i would get the 10 gallon instead...its ONLY $10....you save more money and its bigger and more space for the betta to swim in.

 

[K.J.]

Ours over here at Milwaukee in is about 8.99-20ish dollars....$8.99 just for the 2.5 and the $20ish is the 2.5 with the lid and the light....so if i were you...i would get the 10 gallon instead...its ONLY $10....you save more money and its bigger and more space for the betta to swim in.

I'd get ten gallons for all my bettas but I have 8. I'm usuing the ten gallon at the moment for a new petsmart guy, make him happier.

 

[RandomWiktor]

Here, for some reason, they charge about $15 for a 2.5, $12 for a 5, and $9 for a 10... anyone see the logic in a smaller tank costing more?
You could always DIY some dividers on two 10g tanks, giving each betta 2.5g each, to fit the 8 bettas. So long as everyone's healthy, it usually works well, especially if you alternate male/female. Or, you could get 4 10g's and give everyone 5g each. Either way, buying and dividing some tens (esp. if you make your dividers yourself, which is better than the purchased ones, as they tend to not come up high enough to prevent fish from border jumping) is probably cheaper than buying eight 2g tanks.

 

[K.J.]

Here, for some reason, they charge about $15 for a 2.5, $12 for a 5, and $9 for a 10... anyone see the logic in a smaller tank costing more?
You could always DIY some dividers on two 10g tanks, giving each betta 2.5g each, to fit the 8 bettas. So long as everyone's healthy, it usually works well, especially if you alternate male/female. Or, you could get 4 10g's and give everyone 5g each. Either way, buying and dividing some tens (esp. if you make your dividers yourself, which is better than the purchased ones, as they tend to not come up high enough to prevent fish from border jumping) is probably cheaper than buying eight 2g tanks.

Glass dividers cost ten dollars each. And I'm saving up for a new pair, a new 2.5 gallon tank (for Ein, he's been in a little over half a gallon because the retarded tank company couldn't put a divider slot smack in the middle. )

 

[RandomWiktor]

That's why I said to DIY dividers, silly. Plastic canvas has good circulation and only costs about 90 cents a sheet, if that. There's some good links on how to make dividers very, very cheaply out of that stuff.

 

[92cw12]

That's why I said to DIY dividers, silly. Plastic canvas has good circulation and only costs about 90 cents a sheet, if that. There's some good links on how to make dividers very, very cheaply out of that stuff.

i m planning on building a tank!! ROUND HERE YOU CAN BUY A 20 G FOR£20 (second hand)

 

[K.J.]

That's why I said to DIY dividers, silly. Plastic canvas has good circulation and only costs about 90 cents a sheet, if that. There's some good links on how to make dividers very, very cheaply out of that stuff.

Where can you buy them?

 

[RandomWiktor]

Most craft stores carry it. AC Moore and Micheals have always had plastic canvas in out my way. You'll find it with the needlepoint supplies.

 

[Kovitlac]

I got mine at PetSmart for 10 dollars with a lid.