When to add cleaners and conditioners

[Betta momma]

Hey everyone a Newbie here. I’m a new momma to a male betta looove him. I have him in a bowl, 1st week down. Now I bought all this conditioner and enviro cleaner stuff. Now when I bought him I filled the bowl and let it sit with the betta plus conditioner for 24hrs before I introduced him. Should I of also put in the biological cleaner too? I haven’t used it yet and maybe did it wrong but going to clean the bowl so want to do it right! Helllppppp

 

[Slaphppy7]

Welcome to TFF.

Unfortunately, bettas do not belong in bowls. They need a heated, filtered tank, of at least 5 gallons in size.

Are you able to provide this for the fish?

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

Sorry, but you need to lose the bowl.
Any bowl is inappropriate for keeping fish, because of the poor surface area.
A Betta really needs a minimum of a 10 gallon tank in order to thrive, complete with live plants and heater. Filtration of some sort is also required.
Please learn all you can about the fish you're gonna care for. This is a fair starting point.

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

Welcome to TFF.

Unfortunately, bettas do not belong in bowls. They need a heated, filtered tank, of at least 5 gallons in size.

Are you able to provide this for the fish?

Note that whilst I won't totally disagree with you, I think we might agree that a 5 gallon is the absolute minimum and leaves little room for what else is usually required.

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

I filled the bowl and let it sit with the betta plus conditioner

This is a water conditioner and the most important aspect of any water conditioner is to remove chlorine and metals from your tapwater. Most of the other stuff in the Betta conditioner is really superfluous to requirements.
With regards the 'bowl cleaner', please do not use this.

This is a link which describes the complexities of setting up a new tank.

To summarise, fish produce toxic waste.
This needs to be removed.
In a properly established tank, bacteria turn that toxic waste into something safe, that the fish can swim in.
You will not have any of that bacteria yet.

Moving forward...
Assuming you can't put him in a tank and he's stuck in a bowl for the short term;
Buy some bottled bacteria and add this to the bowl.
Add some live plants, such as pondweed (Elodea), or Hornwort. Fast-growing plants will eat up toxic waste.
Don't add anything else to the bowl.