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Fish Care: Keep a happy and healthy fish! |
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In this page you will learn how to feed the fish, change the water, and clean the bowl thoroughly. Feeding. Feed the fish once a day, only what it can eat within 2 minutes. DO NOT OVERFEED! More fishes die of overfeeding than of starvation! So feed him carefully. Bettas usually don't like flake food, even the ones labeled for Bettas. My Betta loves Hikari Betta Bio Gold. I feed him 3 pellets of this once a day. I also feed him freeze dried brine shrimp once a week or mosquito larvae whenever I see some in my flower vase. If you feed him live food, make sure to rinse it well and only give it to him if it is alive and clean. You should not feed with live food when you have gravel in your bowl where the worms or larvae may hide if the fish doesn't see it first. Some people prefer to feed their fish twice a day, but frequent feeding means more frequent cleaning! Twice the amount of food means twice as much waste material the fish will excrete. Bettas usually do just fine with once-a-day feeding. Water Change. As mentioned in the first page, fish excrete waste that would easily accumulate in the water. You don't want your fish bowl to be like a toilet bowl! Therefore, regular water changes is necessary. DO NOT CHANGE ALL OF THE WATER IN THE BOWL! This is stressful to the fish and will cause his immune system to become weak. A typical 1.5 gallon fish bowl requires only about 20% water change twice a week, or once a week if it has filtration. Smaller bowls with no filtration need more frequent water changes. An unfiltered 1/2 gallon bowl would need to have as much as 50% water change everyday. Cleaning. The bowl needs to be cleaned once a week, or once every two weeks if it has filtration. By this time your fish's particulate wastes and uneaten food have accumulated in the gravel, and these need to be removed before they rot and cause a bacterial bloom. WHEN CLEANING THE BOWL YOU DO NOT NEED TO CHANGE ALL THE WATER. Pour at least 50% of the water from your fish bowl into a clean bucket (you need to use something like a small scoop). Continue pouring up to 80% only if you don't disturb the wastes in the gravel and the water you are scooping still appears crystal clear. Then using a fish net carefully move your fish and live plants from the bowl into the bucket. Next take a clean paper towel and scrub the inside of the fish bowl until it's squeaky-clean. Do not use soap! Rinse the fish bowl, gravel, and decorations well with tap water. Pour the old water with the fish and plants from the bucket back into your fish bowl, and fill your fish bowl 2 inches from the top with bottled drinking water or pretreated tap water. |
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