dlwn88
Aquarium Advice Activist
Hey guys,
This is probably an easy question I should already know the answer to but I've never dealt with keeping betta so I'd figure I'd ask. My girlfriend got a betta about a months ago, in a decent size bowl. I usually don't really bother with it, my two tanks keep my busy, but today I decided to use my API test kit and found that although my girlfriend has been doing her water changes about every week, ammonia was past 8ppm!! I quickly did several water changes to bring it way down, and even added a tiny drop of Prime to help. Talk about a hardy fish, it looked perfectly fine in there.
I'd imagine fish bowls, just like tanks, can cycle, the only difference I see is no filter thus no real oxygenation of the water. I know the majority of people that have betta's in bowls probably don't think to this extreme but could I add a tiny but of gravel from my established 75g to get things going? There's currently no nitrite or nitrate in the bowl, just a ton of ammonia, which is currently down to 1ppm atm. Any other advice would be great.
I jokingly sent her a txt saying to help I put the betta in the 75g with the cichlids and she called me all worried before I even had a chance to text "jk" ah man that actually made my day . The water in there is sure a lot better then that bowl though.
Thanks,
Dave
This is probably an easy question I should already know the answer to but I've never dealt with keeping betta so I'd figure I'd ask. My girlfriend got a betta about a months ago, in a decent size bowl. I usually don't really bother with it, my two tanks keep my busy, but today I decided to use my API test kit and found that although my girlfriend has been doing her water changes about every week, ammonia was past 8ppm!! I quickly did several water changes to bring it way down, and even added a tiny drop of Prime to help. Talk about a hardy fish, it looked perfectly fine in there.
I'd imagine fish bowls, just like tanks, can cycle, the only difference I see is no filter thus no real oxygenation of the water. I know the majority of people that have betta's in bowls probably don't think to this extreme but could I add a tiny but of gravel from my established 75g to get things going? There's currently no nitrite or nitrate in the bowl, just a ton of ammonia, which is currently down to 1ppm atm. Any other advice would be great.
I jokingly sent her a txt saying to help I put the betta in the 75g with the cichlids and she called me all worried before I even had a chance to text "jk" ah man that actually made my day . The water in there is sure a lot better then that bowl though.
Thanks,
Dave