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Beta Fish Care and Feeding
When you boil it all down basic beta fish care and feeding comes down to three things. Clean water. Clean water. Clean water.Given clean water your bettas will do well.
Absent that you'll have to become adept at diagnosing and treating betta diseases. It's that simple.
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Basic Beta Fish
Otherwise the basics of beta fish care include clean water, warm water temperatures, and good nutrition.
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Bettas also do not like a lot of movement in their water. Or any current on the surface of their water either, for that matter.
How Often To Change Betta Fish Water
Just because they originated in shallow stagnant waters doesn't mean low quality water is good for them. In fact, frequent water changes are one of the best things you can do for your bettasSo for best results basic beta fish care would call for you to change the water two or three times a week. Using de-chlorinated water. .
Betta Fish Care - Feeding
If you're providing good water quality the next most important aspect of caring for beta fish is food. \Live food is best. Frozen, while not considered as good as live by most, is next best. Pellets are more for your convenience than the fish's benefit. But if you provide a variety of high protein low fat foods your betta should do well.
Bottom line is this. The activity level of your betta depends on their tank situation and what you feed them. If they're kept in an unheated bowl you can't expect them to do much more than simply lay around. Due in large part because they're cold.
But if kept in a heated tank with room to swim they can become quite active. Plus reward you with colors that can described as nothing short of strikingly vivid.
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