Inside Community Tank Box

[walker001]

My problem. In one tank betta is great with other fish, including guppies.
My other betta cant stay in my other community tank because it and the black skirt tetras dont agree.

I was wondering if any of those plastic breeder boxes were large enough if you gutted the fry seperator if I could put him in the comminity tank in that? Orrr. I could by a cheap small betta tank, dremel holes in one side, buy a pack of replacement suction cups and put them in the holes, dremel some slits in the bottom and stick that in the aquarium.

It just kills me to see one so active and swimming with other fish, and to see one by itself just looking lethargic and bored.

Any suggestions welcome.

Walker

 

[Taridan]

I thought I had posted here but I guess not. a few questions. What size are the tanks you are talking about, and what sort of filtration / current do they have?

As for you ideas, it could tenatively work. There are 2 main reasons why people yell when they hear of betta's being kept in small containers. 1) dirty water 2) swimming room.

if you have the slits in the bottom and holes for water flow, that sort of takes care of # 1. Just make sure its nothing big enough for the betta to -try- to stick his head through. They and cunning little buggers and if they think they can get out they'll try it. now on to # 2: I'm not sure what the size of the breeding trap is but if you did this you would want the thing to be at least 4(side) x 6(font) x 6 (depth) in inches. that will give him approximately a half gallon from swimming in. Then the only other thing you'd have to worry about is if the betta flares so much that he splits his tail.

I would think the box that the fish would be in would help kill the current enough so as not to be bothered by it, but if you do this you might wanna observe for a few hours and see if he's getting too much water flow.