Well Water
I apologize I was not clear that my betta ladies are community gals. 
I did try to ask this moving question (with a lot more detail) last month and since I didn’t get any answers at all, I kept it simple this time (apparently too simple).
It is good to know that the air in bags will not get stale that quickly - do you know how many days a betta could be kept in a bag comfortably? We will have at least one overnight on the trip, if not two (depending on what time we leave).
I think we’re still not on the same page with the amount of water being changed in the cups. I don’t do PWCs with the cups, I do complete water replacements. IMHO, there is too little water in the cups to be changing a mere 10% of the water daily. They get totally new water every evening when they are in their cups.
-Lana
On 5/18/08, Raymond Wetzel wrote: > > Lana, I regret that you were offended by my reply. It, of course, > was not intended to do so as I was only going with what I understood > from your message. Although you did memtion a 10 gallon tank, it did > not appear clear to me that you housed the Bettas in it, especially > since you mentioned “bettaS” (pleural). As such, with your not > expressly stating anywhere in that post that you kept Bettas in the > 10 gallon, coupled with the common knowledge that not more than one > Betta can be kept in one tank (unless they’re females), I did not > understand it to read that you were keeping Bettas (pleural) in the > 10 gallon tank. If you have female Bettas, that was not clearly > stated (at all) either. > > Understanding your post as it was presented, I had no reason to > research the history of this thread. Since it seems now, from your > reaction, that these wwere not the facts, it appears as though this > was just a case of mis-communication resulting in a mis- > understanding. BTW, atmospheric oxygen sealed in fish bags will not > go “stale” anytime soon, so there was no cause for the “caution” > taken with using cups (with perforated lids) for the fish to > transport them. > > As for your numbers, with one ounce of water per day (for 8 days) to > replace the water in an 8 ounce cup, I’d just like to point out a > major factor which you are missing. With each succeeding 1 ounce > water change of the 8 ounce cup, as each day goes by, you will be > increasingly changing out (removing) more and more of the fresh water > that you’ve been adding the previous days as part of the exchanged > water. As I stated, the end result of your water changing method > will result in your still having a remainder of 34.88% of the old > water remaining in the cup, although I this figure is a result of > carrying water changes out for 9 days. For changing water for 8 days > it results in still having 43.06% of old water — and it goes like > this: > > One ounce water change per day, of an 8 ounce cup, for 8 days = a 10% > by volume of the water being changed daily (old and/or new). > > First day — Changing out 10% of the 100% of old water leaves 90% of > the old water remaining (now with 10% of new water). > > Second day — Changing out 10% of the 90% of old water remaining > leaves 81% of the old water remaining (you’ve removed a portion of > the new water you’ve previously put in). > > Third day — Changing out 10% of the 81% of old water remaining > leaves 72.9% of the old water remaining (you’ve removed a yet larger > portion of the new water previously added). > > Fourth day — Changing out 10% of the 72.9% of the old water > remaining leaves 65.61% of the old water remaining (tou’ve removed an > even larger portion with this, of the new water previously added). > > Fifth day — Changing out 10% of the 65.61% of the old water > remaining leaves 59.05% of the old water remaing (with even more new > water removed). > > Sixth day — Changing out 10% of the 59.05% of the old water > remaining leaves 53.15% of the old water remaining. > > Seventh day — Changing out 10% of the 53.15% of the old water now > remaining leaves 47.84% of the iold water remaining. > > Eighth day — Changing out 10% of this 47.84% of the old water now > remaining leaves 43.06% of the old water still remaining (with a > greater portion of the new water being removed each time, as the > previous amount of it is increased each previous time). Ray >
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