Well Water
Ray,
I’m kind of offended. Maybe you should read my post more carefully? Or maybe look up my prior posts before accusing me of keeping my girls in their cups. The Bettas normally live in a 10G community tank that is well planted with all sorts of nooks and crannies for them to hide in. I feel the cups would be the safest way to travel with them considering they need air as a labyrinth fish and I’m sure they’d prefer the fresh stuff that gets in the cup from the holes in the top vs. stale stuff in a bag. I’m kind of picky about the air they breathe - if I notice the top of their aquarium gets too misty, I’ll open the flap because I know I wouldn’t want to breathe that air.
Bettas, when in their cups, require 100% water changes - so yes, 1 ounce per day *would* be 100% new water. I will probably keep them in their cups until I can refill the tank and ensure the parameters are under control. I estimate about a week for that, which would give me enough time to do the water changes I mentioned. I’d love to do a whole fishless cycle but I don’t think that would be realistic. If I did the water changes in the cups, it would go like this: Day 1: 100% water change to 1 ounce well, 7 ounce old Day 2: 100% water change to 2 ounce well, 6 ounce old Day 3: 100% water change to 3 ounce well, 5 ounce old Day 4: 100% water change to 4 ounce well, 4 ounce old Day 5: 100% water change to 5 ounce well, 3 ounce old Day 6: 100% water change to 6 ounce well, 2 ounce old Day 7: 100% water change to 7 ounce well, 1 ounce old Day 8: 100% water change to 8 ounce well
However, I am considering Lenny’s suggestion of the drip in a bucket method. I just know the girls won’t be happy about sharing a few cups on water in a pail. They do fine in their planted tank, but I would never put them in less than the full 10G together (which I know isn’t a full 10G but hell, its better than the 2-3G the drip method maxes out). So I’m debating between a 4 bucket drip and the cup method I mentioned above.
-Lana, who is still insulted that Ray of all people on this list couldn’t be bothered to read before being ridiculously rude.
On 5/17/08, Raymond Wetzel wrote: > > Aside from the fact that your proposed method of changing out 1 ounce > of water per day (for 8 days) will not serve to exchange the old > water for new completely (you’ll still have 34.88% of the old water > remaining) — although close enough to introduce the fish to > the “new” mixed water, are you saying that you normally keep your > Bettas in 8 ounce cups??? If that’s the case, why do you bother > keeping Bettas at all if you can’t give them the conditions in > maintaining them with some quality of life? > > While we know that Bettas don’t need much water to survive (they are > shipped in 2 ounce plastic bags of water from the Far East), surely > you can’t enjoy very much of them besides seeing their physical > appearance in very confined quarters, their eating and their > occasionally coming up to the surface for additional oxygen. These > tiny shipping bags, and even the small display globes the fish stores > use for them, are only meant as temporary containers for these fish > until they are sold. Most breeders in this country use at least 2 > quart jars for their male stock, and that is only until they are sold. > > You would gain so much more from them (as would they) if you were to > allow them the luxury of living in a more natural setting of a small > aquarium where they could interact with their environment (substrate, > plants, perhaps a few other small fish and/or snails) where you could > further enjoy their behavior. If you don’t have the additional room > for one or two 2 1/2 gallon tanks, I would question your capabilities > of being able to properly maintain these fish if I were you. > > BTW, if you plan on being in the hobby for any length of time, it > would be more to your benefit to get some water testing kits, to > enable you to know your water parameters at any given time, and > afford you the convenience of having these facilities at hand. > They’re not very difficult to use. Ray > >
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