2cvbloke
Aquarium Advice FINatic
That pet shop, they have too many temptations, and today, I was charmed by another blue Siamese fighter fish, and as my tank was looking empty without a fishy, and as the snails were taking over, I thought I'd buy the lil' fella!!! 
He's more sociable than my first one, he flares a lot more too, I just hope he lasts longer than the first...
At last test, the tank parameters were fine, no off-the-scale colours, it all came back as cycled, so the filter's doing it's job...
Just one question, do Bettas not like fastish water flow? He seems to struggle in the water flow which I have going (to try to prevent an "oil slick" of algae on the surface), and he hasn't quite figured out that the plants are a safe haven for him yet. The main reason why I ask, is the cheap filter, although working perfectly, won't slow down even if I lower the outlet to minimum, so to slow it down I have to block the outlet off with sponge or filter wool, but then it clogs up with gunk and ends up stopping, and I still cannot use my Fluval2 as it's in the big tank with the Ichy fish...
The plants though, I think they're most definitely terrestrial plants as they are breaking the surface aswell as producing large roots which I can't keep under the gravel annoyingly!!! But I like them...
He's more sociable than my first one, he flares a lot more too, I just hope he lasts longer than the first...
At last test, the tank parameters were fine, no off-the-scale colours, it all came back as cycled, so the filter's doing it's job...
Just one question, do Bettas not like fastish water flow? He seems to struggle in the water flow which I have going (to try to prevent an "oil slick" of algae on the surface), and he hasn't quite figured out that the plants are a safe haven for him yet. The main reason why I ask, is the cheap filter, although working perfectly, won't slow down even if I lower the outlet to minimum, so to slow it down I have to block the outlet off with sponge or filter wool, but then it clogs up with gunk and ends up stopping, and I still cannot use my Fluval2 as it's in the big tank with the Ichy fish...
The plants though, I think they're most definitely terrestrial plants as they are breaking the surface aswell as producing large roots which I can't keep under the gravel annoyingly!!! But I like them...
