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Fabulous, thanks for the input! I think I'll take the heater and try to give it a nice vinegar cleaning, then go from there. :)

A friend of mine is offering to give me his 100w Visi-Therm Stealth heater that he's used in his saltwater tank for two years. He says it's worked flawlessly for the entire time he's had it (as would be expected of a Stealth heater!) Should I take this heater, or buy a new one since his has 2...

I LOVE naming my fish, can't imagine not! Right now I've got two bettas named Whale and Zeppelin (it's not a Led Zeppelin reference, he's just a bit round :P)

Fabulous, thanks for the tips on the garlic! I'm gonna try that in the next few days! :D And I live in Vancouver, so we're pretty close to each other! That's awesome, whenever I'm on these forums, I always think of everyone else as being super far away, like in Australia compared to me, or...

freakinfishgeek, I'm so glad to hear that Prince is doing well! As far as I know, the clamped fins might just be a sign of stress from the move to his new home (pretty much all fish are stressed by moves like this). That would make sense especially since he's not eating yet either. Assuming that...

Submitted by PinkSugar BETTA SPLENDENS Common Names: Betta, Siamese Fighting Fish, Fighter Classification: Order: Perciformes (Anabantidae, prior to reclassification) Family: Osphronemidae Genus: Betta Species: B. Splendens Origin: Thailand and Cambodia Main Ecosystem: Rice...

That's news to me, thanks for the heads up! :D And they're so dark colored, you'd think they'd be full of vitamins and good stuff. But I feed my little guy 5 different frozen foods during the week (all of what I suggested above except for tubifex worms, which I can't find in my local pet stores...

I'll just add a few bits of advice that have been really great for me with my bettas: Bettas aren't big eaters, but they will beg for and eat WAY more food than is good for them. A good rule of thumb is feeding a portion of food the size of the betta's eye (which happens to also be the size of...

Good call on using Google, thanks for the idea! Never occurred to me that a browser might effect it, but I'm using Firefox too.

I think a rough rule for choosing heater size is 5 watts per gallon, isn't it? So for a 20 gallon, as said above, you'd choose a heater that's 100 watts (5X20). Hope that helps! PS: I've used three Stealth heaters now and have nothing but fabulous things to say about them. My other, glass...

I'm super new here and I've been having the same thing happen to me... since there's no specific betta section, I tried searching "betta" to see what posts had been made about them recently, and the search turned up no results... seemed really odd when there's even a tag for posts that's "betta"...

Hi everyone! I'm brand new here so I thought I'd start off by showing you one of my tanks! This is my 12 gallon - I'm working on a fishless cycle with it right now and when it's done, it'll be my betta's new home!