I got this little boy a few days ago and was letting him get accustomed to his tank and haven’t thought of a good name yet for him. He is an elephant ear betta! Any name ideas?

So, I've had a bad history with bettafish dying on me in my 8gal. I've done everything correctly, heater, filter, thermometer, water preamiters, live plants.

I haven't gotten another betta since they kept passing away, I used to feed them pellets and frozen blood worms.

I won't be setting up this tank for some time and need some assistance with it.

This is all questions for my rectangle 55 gal: What type of soil do I use? What plants are the easiest to take care of? What type of plants should I use? Can I have guppies and a betta in the same tank? What type of filters? (I have a sponge filter already and a normal filter) How do I reduce the current in the water when the filters are on? What type of heater should I get for the 55 gal?

What do I do when my PH in the tank refuses to lower? (It's the water we have out here, I use water conditioner, I've tired to lower the PH but it refuses)

I love owning betta fish, I want another but I get so sad when they die. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. The last time I posted about how they kept dying I got a lot of hate when I was looking for help, I felt very discouraged after that post.

I plan on having soil under 2 inches of sand, not sure if that's even necessary. I don't even know where to get the soil that doesn't cost $100 a bag (I'm I'm Canada). I don't know what all I need for the tank, I plan on cycling it for about a month before adding any fish, I want to add shrimp as well.

I also need a good place to buy driftwood for the tank.

I don't support big brand petstores, I go to a smaller local fish store for everything.

Sorry for weird format on mobile, any help is greatly appreciated.

Our tank is finally cycled and we will be getting a fish this weekend! It's for my 6 year old, so I'd really like to do everything I can go avoid immediate heartbreak. When we're at the pet store, how do you tell which fish are the healthiest? Or is it just luck?

i feel like i can add more plants in my tank so my betta can hide more but idk what else to add. Or if i should also add more substrate, cuz its hard for the plants to grasp on the “dirt”

it’s a 5 gal tank so its a fair-ish size for my betta and there one other smaller fish a chinese algae eater but he usually likes to hang towards the bottom, recently been liking the the floating plant I just added and the one on the right.

any suggestions??

I'm checking the water parameters every few hours and they're all met. I also added some media from an existing tank and biomedia pebbles.

I have a betta and I recently brought tetras home which all died and had ick, now my betta has ick. I bought theses and I'm wondering any tips on using them? Do I put my betta in a seperate tank? Do I do water changes to the main tank? Cannot put it in the main tank without staining (it's bright blue). Thanks.

Hello guys, I know these kinds of posts are looked down upon in most pet subs, but I was wondering if anyone has insight of what could be wrong with my male beta. For about a week he has not been able to move to the surface to eat, and mostly remains in a laying position. We have tried to nudge him with a net, but he doesn’t make an attempt to move. We have already tested the water for ammonia, and everything is good. We have a heater, live plants, filter, and 5 gallon tank. We feed him tropical fish flakes. I’m wondering if there may be something wrong with his swim bladder, but I want to make sure before we take any action.

I’ve never seen these bubbles which weren’t here this morning… I come home from work and they’re here??? Her tank is 3.5 gallons and she does have a filter and heater…

So I've had my betta for a month now and I feel like he eats way more than the average just by how people describe feeding theirs. He looks like the "thin" BCS so I let him eat but maybe there's a bigger issue? For example I slowly feed him 10 bug bite pellets, he'll eat them all. Evening is a small chunk of frozen blood worms (roughly 15 i'd guess) and he'll snarf them up. No bloat issues yet. Normal? Worms?

Decided to put 3 Amano shrimp in my 5.5 Gal Betta Tank, tank is full of plants and wood, and soon as the amano arrived yesterday betta was curious but never attackeded the shrimp, now he doesn’t care about the shrimp anymore - now second day the shrimp are super shy or afraid idk, they spend the day completely hidden under the filter intake or one of the pieces of wood, can’t see them leaving for eating or anything, this is a normal behavior for them? I understand they maybe are afraid of the Betta… but he don’t give a f* for the shrimps anymore. My concern is that the amanos are not eating and may die of starvation.

This is my Black samurai betta fish I don’t know what to name him. I was thinking Elvis but I feel like that doesn’t match him very well. Any suggestions? (Also he doesn’t live in the cup I was acclimating him and thought it would be the best moment to get a photo)

Hello!! I’m looking for a good tank mate for my male Betta fish. I’m looking online but I want to be 100% sure that it’s safe. I have a 5 gal tank so I can’t do a super big fish either. Also this is an old pic I have a different setup now with real plants and a light.

a person i know said that he studied some program like water something (i really don’t know the name in english (we had that conversation in my native language so i don’t know the program’s english name but it’s where you study water and underwater life, fishes and so) and when i mentioned that i bought my betta this and that and that like his tank, plants etc. he said that they can live in small tanks and doesn’t require a big one, i said yes they can “survive” in there but they need a big tank, when i said that he goes “i have an diploma on that and they don’t require a big tank they do fine in small ones too” what do you guys think about this conversation i know they need big tank, i’ve read many articles about this so why a person who have a diploma about this say something like this

When we got him home we noticed he has a dip in his back. He is eating and acting normal (excuse his big belly I had just fed him). I was just curious if anyone knew what it could be and if there’s anything I can do about it. I treated him twice with kanaplex already. Thanks in advance!

I guess, 4 days and he is already that confy