Plastic Shoe Boxes for Beautiful Bettas

Plastic Shoe Boxes for Beautiful Bettas We love animals at our house. We have one betta, lovingly named Mr. Red, who lives in our bathroom. We recently decided to buy two more bettas, and keep them in the kitchen. They are interesting fish, and very easy to to take care of. They need water which is not cool, but lukewarm, or as I call it, neither hot or cold, in these tanks. They like to be talked to and interacted with. Here is how we take care of and house our bettas in our home.

Total Time: 15 minutes

Supplies:

1 Bottle dechlorinator like AquaSafe ($3.00)
plastic shoe box
fish food
1 betta and the small bowl they come in

Steps:

Rinse with water (no soap) and fill plastic shoebox with water leaving about 2 or 3 inches for air space.

Put 10 drops of AquaSafe dechlorinator into water. Wait a few seconds.

Take Betta container lid off of small bowl, carefully pour a little water out, and submerge bowl in water, letting the betta swim out. There is no fish in this photo.

Put 2 or three food pellets in the tank and see if the Betta eats them. I don't feed more than 2 to 4 pellets a day, because my Bettas let any more than that fall to the floor of the tank and pollute the water.

Bettas like to feel they can get away and hide, but don't buy just any decoration. Any item in their tank needs to be soft and smooth, in order to keep from harming their beautiful fins. I bought a little smooth rock with about three or four holes where he can swim in and out of. I keep my tanks covered with anything that does the trick, of giving them a feeling of being hidden.

I change the water about every three or so days or when I feel they need it. When changing the water, scoop the betta carefully up in its original container, it can be tricky at first, but the suction of water filling the tiny Betta bowl will smoothly bring him into the bowl. Set in a safe place.

Empty old water out, fill with water that is not hot, but has no coolness to it, or as I do, touch the old water and try to match that temperature.
Add 10 drops of dechlorinator, and in a few seconds, submerge the Betta bowl in the water on its side and let the Betta swim out.
Your Betta is now in his new home. Take photos and share your beautiful Betta with other ThriftyFun readers, like me!

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March 14, 20161 found this helpful

I'm sure you know, fish are intelligent creatures. You may not know some species can learn faster than dogs. Your Bettas may benefit from larger home. At the very least, they need more intellectually stimulating objects in their environment.

Robyn

March 15, 20160 found this helpful

My oldest Betta wags his fins whenever he is happy ;)

linda

March 24, 20161 found this helpful

I have had Bettas in my life: Mr. Bubbles, Wade and Gil.....I thought all cute names for these fish. Nowaday I have a 10 gallon and 29 gallon aquarium with fantail guppies, and 1 large angelfish, who keeps the baby population down.

Robyn

March 25, 20160 found this helpful

Hi,

I love the names you picked for your Bettas.

It's a really good idea to keep the guppies with the angelfish!

linda

March 25, 20160 found this helpful

I keep the most beautiful guppies in another tank, Petco takes about 100 babies from me every 2 months, without the angel fish in the other tank it would be population explosion! The angel fish I got only 4 months ago and his diet has made him huge.

Robyn

March 26, 20160 found this helpful

Hi,

I looked up Angelfish on Wikipedia, and if they are a very interesting species of fish. They are very beautiful also!

Here is the link I looked them up on...en.m.wikipedia.org/.../Pterophyllum

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