dragon14
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Our female betta that we have had since mid October 2014 is bored. She hangs out at the bottom a lot. We had some fake plants, she could care less. We got her a viking helmet decoration recently and it has a hole in the back and the front is open of course. She's been in it a few times, but, she doesn't seem to care about it much.
She also has a betta leaf, but, doesn't seem to care too much about it, uses it once in a while.
She's in a 5g Fluval Chi with an in-water aqueon filter, and a 50watt aqueon pro heater. No substrate (easier to keep clean) and 1 ramshorn snail which we are not sure we are going to keep keeping with her yet. She's been like this before we put the snail in, though.
She used to be in our 10g tank when we had that set up with the pygmys (who are now in the 20g tank that we have). We thought she was snacking on their tails/trying to get to them, so we got her her own tank, but then we lost another pygmy or two after she was out of the tank and their tails had gone missing before they died, and they were intact after we moved her. So that's a mystery and another story.
Anyway, so, I would love to have her in a bigger tank but we don't really have the room. The fluval chi works better for us because it is higher vertically and fits better in the location that we have her sitting on than a regular aqueon 5g tank does. I wish we could give her more horizontal space though, a 5g aqueon tank would be better for her in that regard but it is what it is.
We hate that she just hangs out on the bottom sometimes and feel bad that she seems so bored. Sometimes she hides near the filter too. She's an intelligent, inquisitive fish, and she gets way too excited about feeding time (she actually jumped out of her tank and landed on the floor one time, thank goodness she didn't die or suffer any injuries that we know of, it was about 5 ft that she fell) so we have to be really careful when feeding her now.
My question here is, any ideas on what we can do so she has more to do and is not so bored?
She also has a betta leaf, but, doesn't seem to care too much about it, uses it once in a while.
She's in a 5g Fluval Chi with an in-water aqueon filter, and a 50watt aqueon pro heater. No substrate (easier to keep clean) and 1 ramshorn snail which we are not sure we are going to keep keeping with her yet. She's been like this before we put the snail in, though.
She used to be in our 10g tank when we had that set up with the pygmys (who are now in the 20g tank that we have). We thought she was snacking on their tails/trying to get to them, so we got her her own tank, but then we lost another pygmy or two after she was out of the tank and their tails had gone missing before they died, and they were intact after we moved her. So that's a mystery and another story.
Anyway, so, I would love to have her in a bigger tank but we don't really have the room. The fluval chi works better for us because it is higher vertically and fits better in the location that we have her sitting on than a regular aqueon 5g tank does. I wish we could give her more horizontal space though, a 5g aqueon tank would be better for her in that regard but it is what it is.
We hate that she just hangs out on the bottom sometimes and feel bad that she seems so bored. Sometimes she hides near the filter too. She's an intelligent, inquisitive fish, and she gets way too excited about feeding time (she actually jumped out of her tank and landed on the floor one time, thank goodness she didn't die or suffer any injuries that we know of, it was about 5 ft that she fell) so we have to be really careful when feeding her now.
My question here is, any ideas on what we can do so she has more to do and is not so bored?
