Hi everyone this is Usagi. I got her from petsmart last week because she was so tiny and excited. Her cup was labeled as Crowntail Female, which I think is accurate because I can see the egg pouch thingy. She’s in a 6.6 gallon tank heated from 78-81°. She lives with a mystery snail, some hitchhiker bladder snails, and a smallish colony of orange neocardina shrimp. Her tank has drift wood, pothos roots, anubias, java fern, another type of fern and now some moss I got for her, and ofc some frogbite and lots of twigs. I’ve been feeding her the Fluval Bug Bite flakes once a day, teaching her to know food is at the surface of the water. Currently her filter is a little violent for my taste, but she loves to jump into the whirlpool it makes because it’s an internal sponge filter and get whipped around. I can’t tell if she does this for fun or stress.
She’s less than an inch big so I think she’s 6weeks old? I feel guilty because I did not ‘buying’ 😉 baby betta from petsmart is something that is difficult to handle and not everyone knows how to do. Last week my power got turned off for 3 days so she was in a cold tank it was in the lower 70s and lower 60s for a while but she lived! Today I bought brine shrimp for her to eat since she’s so little. I guess my question is since I was unaware baby betta require different care than full grown bettas, what are some things I should be doing or looking for? She’s really cute and has the zoomies as well as chasing her fins sometimes.
Any advice is welcome! 🙂
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Posted by suenasclouds
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Mainly watch the water parameters closer. Try feeding the brine shrimp or some bloodworms from your fingertip, its fun.
Beautiful fish!!
I personally don’t understand the appeal of a lil sign that mentions “dead fish” inside an aquarium. It’s so popular though! I’m curious, what motivated you to get it?
Lots of water changes. Baby bettas give off growth stunting hormones to try to screw over their siblings by slowing their growth (but they all do it so everyone is screwing over everyone else). It’s fine in a large rice patty but in a small tank that can build up. Keep the tank a little warmer nearer 80f like you are. Be careful not to over feed and make her belly swell. It’s ok to feed tiny amounts of food a little more frequently.