BETTA fry and water changes?

Question

so its been five days and their tank is pretty clean
cept the bottom which i clean everyday
should i be doing any water changes soon?
and how much should i change
thanks

-Ivan

Answer 1

The water should be changed about once a week and keep roughly about a third of the old water when you clean it

Answer 2

Five day old fry are way too young to be doing water changes. I never do any water changes until at least 2 weeks. At five days they are barely at free swimming stage and just little tails with eyes and are very fragile. They will be fine in the not perfect water.

When you do water changes, use airline tubing and let the water out slowly, release the waste water into a bucket or jar so you can see if you accidentally sucked up some fry, which you can scoop up and put back into the tank with a brine shrimp net.

Trickle the new water into the tank, not too much at once, you can shock them. Use aged water that is the same temp as the water in the tank. Take care and Good Luck!!

Answer 3

I cleaned mine about 3x a week when I spawned them. I used regular airline tubing attached to the thin, rigid platic tubing for an undergravel filter - this way I could vaccuum up all the stuff that accumulated on the bottom of the tank. It takes a while with this thin of siphon, but it let me avoid the fry.

I never really measured, but I'm thinking I changed about 15-20% at a time once they were swimming and eating.

Answer 4

once a month about 50%