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i currently feed him a mixture of freeze dried bloodworm, freeze dried daphina and freeze dried brine shrimp, i just alternate these per day? is this ok?

i also was thinking about feeding him some tetra pro colur? to enhance the colours?
 
The best thing to feed them for general maintenance and enhancement of colour is Hikari Betta Biogold... it's not cheap but it lasts so long that it's not really expensive if you're only feeding a few bettas. (Though I guess it would add up if you were breeding and feeding it to all the fry.)
Freeze dried food is good but it needs to be fed with care. If you use it for, say, conditioning and you stuff the betta full of it, you have problems. You should soak it first or feed it three or four times a day in small amounts rather than in one hit, because it can swell in the stomach and cause digestive problems. Other than that, it's good nutritionally.

A combtail can occur on any other tailtype (plakat, halfmoon, delta/sd, doubletail). It's just where the rays of the fins stick out a little past the webbing. The crowntail was created by selecting combtails for longer and longer extensions on the fins. The combtail is still there though, it's a natural mutation that crops up every now and again in some random spawn with no crowntail lineage... ask the breeders. It's often very attractive as your fish shows.
 
LauraFrog said:
The best thing to feed them for general maintenance and enhancement of colour is Hikari Betta Biogold... it's not cheap but it lasts so long that it's not really expensive if you're only feeding a few bettas. (Though I guess it would add up if you were breeding and feeding it to all the fry.)
Freeze dried food is good but it needs to be fed with care. If you use it for, say, conditioning and you stuff the betta full of it, you have problems. You should soak it first or feed it three or four times a day in small amounts rather than in one hit, because it can swell in the stomach and cause digestive problems. Other than that, it's good nutritionally.

A combtail can occur on any other tailtype (plakat, halfmoon, delta/sd, doubletail). It's just where the rays of the fins stick out a little past the webbing. The crowntail was created by selecting combtails for longer and longer extensions on the fins. The combtail is still there though, it's a natural mutation that crops up every now and again in some random spawn with no crowntail lineage... ask the breeders. It's often very attractive as your fish shows.
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laura, thanks for the detailed reply!

do you think tetra pro colour is ok to fed or not? its just i feed it to my other 2 tanks so have plenty of it...

i only have 1 betta, not planning or getting another one quite yet...i may look into getting some hikari biogold, as dont want any problems with him....

at the moment i feed him twice a day, once before work and once after....he always seems ravenous...only had him for a week but already he has settled in great...he loves the tall plant i put in there with him, often find him lazying on it...

looking at getting maybe 3 shrimps to put in there in a few weeks, but fear he may attack them...i do have a small plant in the bottom for shelter if i do get shrimps...
 
Netty said:
The patience bit tends to run out when you're trying to get pics of 40+ little ones :lol: Tempted to blue tack them in place sometimes. But the second pic you got shows his caudal really nicely :good:
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hi, while your all trying to get pictures of your fish, ive got quite a few id like you to see , but i just dont seem to be able to get them on here , any advice pse
 
was thinking of getting a few shrimps for his tank tonight? do you think it is ok? how big will they have to be for him to not bother trying to eat them?
 
i had 2 males in a divided tank. added some shrinp and they chewed them to pieces. then after an unfortunate ddeath to one male, the surviving male had the tank all to himself. i thought id give the shrimp another go and he could care less. he was in "go" mode with the other male present and without him there now, he is placid as a pond. now shares the tank with a few cories and zilions of snails. (ive had no luck keeping shrimp alive in my tank, though, through no fault of my betta)...i think it just depends on your guy's personality.
CHEERS!
 
loraxchick said:
i had 2 males in a divided tank. added some shrinp and they chewed them to pieces. then after an unfortunate ddeath to one male, the surviving male had the tank all to himself. i thought id give the shrimp another go and he could care less. he was in "go" mode with the other male present and without him there now, he is placid as a pond. now shares the tank with a few cories and zilions of snails. (ive had no luck keeping shrimp alive in my tank, though, through no fault of my betta)...i think it just depends on your guy's personality.
CHEERS!
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cheers for advice!

my one betta lives in a 17l tank on his own, he seems very placid. There is one small plant at the bottom, and one larger flowing plant that reaches the top and folds over so there is p-lenty of cover for shrimps if i did get them.

What snails do you have? Would apple snails be too large for the a 17l tank? would they destroy the plants?
 
loubega said:
loraxchick said:
i had 2 males in a divided tank. added some shrinp and they chewed them to pieces. then after an unfortunate ddeath to one male, the surviving male had the tank all to himself. i thought id give the shrimp another go and he could care less. he was in "go" mode with the other male present and without him there now, he is placid as a pond. now shares the tank with a few cories and zilions of snails. (ive had no luck keeping shrimp alive in my tank, though, through no fault of my betta)...i think it just depends on your guy's personality.
CHEERS!
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cheers for advice!

my one betta lives in a 17l tank on his own, he seems very placid. There is one small plant at the bottom, and one larger flowing plant that reaches the top and folds over so there is p-lenty of cover for shrimps if i did get them.

What snails do you have? Would apple snails be too large for the a 17l tank? would they destroy the plants?
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could you divide a 17l tank into 2 and keep 2 bettas in there?
 
the vast majority of my snails are "pest " snails which hitch in on some plants. i love them and their population is self limiting (on available food). while you may get what you think is a LOT of them, their numbers level off even while laying lots of eggs. i also have three ramshorns in there. just go to the lfs and ask for the "pest" snails...they may even give them to you for nothing (they are "pests", right?).. IMHO they are just as much fun to watch as any other snail, and also do a great job at clean up. i have a heavily planted tank and never have seen any snail damage either.
your betta may even get a kick out of watching them from time to time, mine does anyway.
 
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