baron1282
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Last night my wife and I did an impulse buy. We bought a Crown Tail Beta.
We got a 2.5 gallon tank, a heater for it and a little wispier tetra filter. Also we bought CaribSea Ready-Water.
I have had a Beta for five years before he died. I kept the guy in a 1 gallon aquarium, that I never cycled and I always did a weekly cleaning of everything. Took the beta out put him in a bowl and cleaned the whole 1 gallon.
With that said, I have never thought about cycling a 2.5 gallon tank. Plus with Beta's I never cycled my other guys tank and he grew to be awesome looking and lived for a good five years. I even moved with him in the back of my car across country. I read that people don't really cycle beta tanks and I was wondering if that was true? I still don't think you need to as long as you do the water changes. Besides isn't cycling a 2.5 gallon just almost impossible? The only thing different I got on this tank is the filter, the last tank I had my other guy in had no filter and only had a bubblier for O2 exchange. What are your thoughts on keeping beta's healthy and happy, and do you think cycling a small tank is not going to happen?
We got a 2.5 gallon tank, a heater for it and a little wispier tetra filter. Also we bought CaribSea Ready-Water.
I have had a Beta for five years before he died. I kept the guy in a 1 gallon aquarium, that I never cycled and I always did a weekly cleaning of everything. Took the beta out put him in a bowl and cleaned the whole 1 gallon.
With that said, I have never thought about cycling a 2.5 gallon tank. Plus with Beta's I never cycled my other guys tank and he grew to be awesome looking and lived for a good five years. I even moved with him in the back of my car across country. I read that people don't really cycle beta tanks and I was wondering if that was true? I still don't think you need to as long as you do the water changes. Besides isn't cycling a 2.5 gallon just almost impossible? The only thing different I got on this tank is the filter, the last tank I had my other guy in had no filter and only had a bubblier for O2 exchange. What are your thoughts on keeping beta's healthy and happy, and do you think cycling a small tank is not going to happen?