22" (L) x 11" (B) x 8" (H).. This is the tank's dimension. I can't do full lid coz of the lucky Bamboo leaves.. I plan on adding half lid and cover the other half with lots of floating plants like Water Lettuce, Amazon Frogbit and Red Root Floaters. Anyone else got Betta tanks without lids? Do they really try to jump outta the tank?
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Posted by lakaai
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The betta will jump eventually. It is instinctive & a trait cultivated by the fish’s native environment (i.e., in small and isolated bodies of water where ‘jumping’ is often rewarded).
It looks to be a very nice aquarium. Is the capacity ca. 32 litres (7gallons)? Make sure one has surface water movement to aid oxygen exchange.
Lucky bamboo is such a pretty plant. This set up looks nice 🤌🙂↕️✨️❤️
You’ve posted a few times in a few different subs, the answer is the same.
Please do not add a betta to a lidless tank.
Perfect water parameters, a lower water level and floating plants will not stop them.
This is an instinctual response that these fish have.
Beautiful, beautiful tank, but yes it needs a lid for a betta. I’ve seen someone cover their tank top with a pantyhose mesh once, with the bamboo growing through holes, maybe you could do something similar?
Not that I’d do it again, or recommended the risk, but to accurately answer your question, yes I kept a betta, my first fish, in an open tank without issue until he died of a tumor a while back. I didn’t know better. Once I did I was stubborn and just lowered the water level a little. Guess I was lucky. I also kept a lot of floaters in that tank and a lot of the plants were growing to the surface and hanging over, there was an HOB filter, and an emmersed potted plant so there wasn’t much of any edge that could have been breached.
I expect saying this will be taken poorly, but I could theoretically see moving your floater corral over to the bamboo side surrounding all the stems and totally filling it up, covering everything else and housing a happy beta until a natural death. Is it worth the risk though?
Mine was a long finned, never moved fast, was never jumpy or scared, didn’t eat shrimp and seemed generally interested in a non-predatory curious way about his shrimp and snail tank mates. If he wasn’t so chill, I may not have been so lucky. Now I have 8 nanos in there and I don’t even really like them that much after having such a personable water puppy that would swim in your hands TBH. There’s a big difference between a single fish that will interact with you and a bunch of unidentifiable spaz’s that freak out all the time.
It’s actually more accurate to say they can, then that they will. Which, is probably not any justification to endanger the fish over the priority of a cool looking tank.
I like the bamboo forest though!