Chemials, Chemicals, Chemicals?
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You might want to hold off using all those chemicals. Using all of them would do more bad than good. I recommend for your new betta is just the water conditioner. But before you buy your fish, please take some water in to the store and get it tested for PH or Ammonia. If your water is ok, get some of the water conditioner and buy some Color Enhancer Fish Food. Bettas dont have to eat betta food. This food will help make his color vibrant!
enjoy your new betta!
You don’t need Aquarisol unless the fish has ich. I would bet Attison’s betta spa won’t do much for the color. NovaAqua+ is good stuff. Hagen Cycle will shorten the cycle time, but it is no miracle product.
Better that you get a proper tank with heating and filtration for your betta.
Don’t put him in a bowl. Get a small tank at the very least get this: http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441776985&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302030056&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=2534374302023693&bmUID=1177555968512&itemNo=48&Nao=48&In=Fish&N=2030056&Ne=2
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=12087&N=2004+113767
I would not use all of those at once, use them in sequence as you get the tank ready for your betta.
The best thing you can do for your betta is to get him a 10 gallon tank with a heater and a good filter. Use “DeChlor” or “NovAqua” to take the chlorine and chloramine out of the water before adding the “Cycle.” Set the heater for about 78 degrees and let it stabilize before buying the betta. Put a couple of floating plants in for him to mess around in and maybe some plants at the bottom too. Plastic is OK, fish don’t know the difference.
Once your betta is in his new home, start doing 25% water changes every week and feed him a good high protein food once a day. I feed mine “BettaMin” by “Tetra Products.” They also love treats of frozen blood worms a couple times a week. Take a small corner off a block of frozen worms and let it thaw in a small cup of his tank water. Not too much, the worms will foul the water easily. Get his attention and drop some right in front of him with a turkey baster.
Your weekly partial water changes will keep the water clean and pure and your betta will thank you by keeping his color, staying active and may live up to 7 years if you are diligent and feed him right.
You could even add a dwarf frog (NOT CLAWED FROG) and a small school of cardinal (not neon, they are too touchy) tetras to make it look really nice.
Too many chemicals are worse than none at all, but when I worked at a retail fish store, I saved a lot of sickly female bettas (they always shipped in sick) by using “Aquari-Sol” when I put them in their containers. Go by the directions on the bottle and you will be OK. I would only use it once a week as a tonic.
Bettas kept in small unheated, unfiltered bowls quickly become lethargic, lose their vivid colors and lose their appetite. Within a year, they usually die because the low and fluctuating temps compromise their immune systems.
BTW, it is pronounced bet-tah, not bay-tah.
Email me if you have more questions, I have spawned and raised bettas on many occasions.
The more junk you add to your tank, the more complicated you are making things, and the more you are increasing the chances of something going on.
What fish need for good color is an appropriate tank with appropriate decoration and tankmates, clean water, and a good diet. No amount of chemicals will make your fish look nice if you keep it in an unfiltered and unheated bowl, leaving it for weeks without maintenance, while feeding the fish the same stale flakes all the time. Sure, the store will try to sell you anything to make a buck, but you should question whether you really need it. What you should have is a properly filtered and heated tank for your betta with plenty of plants for security, regular waterchanges and tank maintenance, and a diet of good, fresh flakes or pellets, with possibly the supplements of bloodworms, brine shrimp, etc.
All I use is water conditioner. It’s all I’ve used in my tanks in over 15 years. I haven’t had any disease in my tanks, except one case of ich and one of finrot when I first started the hobby, and I have no experience battling all these issues that I read about here all the time. The best cure for problems is prevention.
Hagen’s cycle isn’t really worth the bottle it comes in. If you really want bacteria, then get real living bacteria. All you need is some filter media or gravel from an established tank, which you would then put into your own filter, or bowl if that’s all you have. This will work faster and better then any bottled bacteria.
I use a water conditioner and i also use cycle. I add the conditioner ever water chance. No matter how much water i add . ( I use the Tetrat Aqua Safe) Than I also use Cycle when i chance my water and i also use it when I add new fish. I have had no problems At all, I have been doing this from Day one. Have had my Tank about 2 months. This is a 29 gallon tank.