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A fighter fish is a wonderful aquatic creature with a great personality. This can be seen when you create the ideal environment around your fighter fish (betta fish). In order to create such an environment, you must have a proper tank for your fighter fish.
In today’s market, you will see fish tanks with various attractive designs, shapes and sizes. If you are not careful enough, you may end up buying an unsuitable fish tank for your fighter fish. As a result, your fighter fish will become sick and may succumb to it.
Here, I am giving you some valuable tips so you can choose a proper tank for your fighter fish (betta fish). Remember! The ideal environment provided by you will not only keep your fighter fish healthy but happy too. The tips are as follows;
1. First of all, buy a fish tank which is square in shape. There are many tanks which come in various shapes. Though they are attractive in look, they may pose threats to your fighter fish. In addition, you may find it difficult to fix a heater or a filter to that tank.
2. Next, make sure that the tank you are going to buy can hold at least 5 gallons of water. It is the minimum water requirement for your fighter fish to live in comfortably. A fish tank of 10 gallons size is the ideal one. If you choose a tank of size below 5 gallons, then the amount of toxic elements such as ammonia will increase at rapid pace and harm your fighter fish.
3. Last but not least, avoid buying a fish bowl at any cost. It is very difficult to fix a heater or filter to the bowl because of its shape. Also, usually, bowls hold water below the required 5 gallons limit. Hence, bowls are unsuitable for fighter fish (betta fish) to live in.
These three simple things you must always keep in your mind while choosing a fish tank for your betta fish. Like any other pets, fighter fish too deserve to live in a better place.
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i am new in this field i have made a tank that holds 70 lts of water from last 10 days my fighter fish has not eatten fish food and angel fish is also not eatting fish food what shall i do what food they eat i have 2gold fish 2 shark 2 milky koi and many total 18 fishes i am worried because my 2 fish have died i dont know the reasson pls help me.
Hi, thank you for your enquiry. The reason why your fish are not eating may be because of the stress. Considering the population of fish you have, the tank size is very small. You will be surprised to know that a goldfish alone require around 15 gallons of water. At present, you have total 18.5 gallons of water. You have 2 goldfish. For both of them alone, it is very congested. In addition, goldfish are massive waste producers. So the rise of pollution in water must have stressed your fish. How many times in a week do you maintain the tank water? I guess the ammonia content in water must have been huge. Have you checked the ammonia content in the tank water?
Another thing is the compatibility among the fish you have. You must know that putting fighter fish and goldfish or fighter fish and angel fish are not recommended. It is because these fish species are very territorial in nature. They will fight to death or easily get stressed by seeing each other.
I suggest you to remove the goldfish and angel fish from the tank immediately. If you find it to do difficult, then shift your fighter fish to a tank of 5 gallons (around 19 litre). Please, do not put your fighter fish in a bowl unless the size of the bowl can contain 5 gallons of water.
For fighter fish, you can feed pellets, live blood worms, brine shrimps, flakes, frozen worms and freeze dried food items. For goldfish, you can give pellets, flakes, live foods etc. For angel fish, give pellets, flakes, freeze dried and frozen foods, live foods such as brine shrimp, tubifex worms, white worms and blood worms.
I hope I have helped you enough. Good luck with your fish keeping. Have a nice day. With regards,
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