I've heard that there is a plant that helps keep a non-filtrated fishbowl clean. My daughter has a beta, and we have to change the stinky water about twice a week. Any advice is appreciated.
2007-06-12 08:35:52 · 11 answers · asked by Izdiwaj 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
java moss does help a little. however, there's nothing like a clean filtered and heated tank. do NOT add another fish or snail, this will just add to the waste production and make things worse. try feeding the fish a little less.
you could cut your water changes back to once every other month if you got a small 2.5 gallon with a filter and a heater or never if you get a 5 gallon (just suck 20% of the water out of the tank with a gravel vacuum or turkey baster and replace with clean conditioned water). this would be much healthier for the betta and much easier on you. they make cheap plain small tanks or you could let your daughter pick out a pretty colored and sparkley one.
2007-06-12 11:25:36 · answer #1 · answered by Kylie Anne 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The beta is probably in one of those single fish bowls and therefore does not any filtering or cleaning system. Make sure your daughter is not overfeeding the fish. Leftover food is the #1 reason for pollution and smell in the water.
I do not have live plants, but if algae begins to grow there are tablets you can purchase at the pet store which help reduce the algae. You just pop one in the bowl and wait a couple days. There are bottom feeders you can purchase that will also help, but you have to make sure the bowl is big enough for two fish.
Also when you do clean the bowl, make sure your daughter (or you) rinse everything in hot water thoroughly before puting back into the bowl. This will kill lots of bacteria and help keep it cleaner longer.
2007-06-12 08:42:27 · answer #2 · answered by loving_life 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could use anacharis (if the tank gets decent light) or java moss to remove nitrates, but you'll still have to clean out the bowl. Like the above posters said, the fish will be best off in a 5 gallon tank with a small filter and heater. You can get these pretty cheap and all you would have to do are weekly water changes of about 25-50%.
2007-06-12 14:28:27 · answer #3 · answered by Carson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My brother has a beta fish, and he only cleans the bowl about every other week.
We have the bowl standing on a shelve, (no sun gets to it), and he has a lavalamp behind it for light what he turns on for 12 hours a day and turns it of at night.
The water doesn't smell and isn't cloudy
He has also a REAL plant in it what helps out with oxygen
He feeds the beta once a day with beta pellets, about 4 piece
2007-06-12 08:57:44 · answer #4 · answered by Kribensis lover 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would try to get some java moss or jave fern. Try to get some that are small and pointed so there is room for the fish to swim in. Only change 50% of the water in your betta fishbowl.
2007-06-12 08:40:29 · answer #5 · answered by Chris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope -- if there was a plant in that water, the plant would get stinky too. Keep changing that water, and that Beta wil be very happy <:-)
2007-06-12 08:39:54 · answer #6 · answered by aattura 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i prefer to propose a 14 gallon or extra (even regardless of the undeniable fact that a 10 will artwork) Guppies are tropical fish and prefer a heater for a healthful existence span. Bubbles are good too! this variety of small place could lead on them to unhappy. and because you have 2 adult males, you do no longer prefer to get in straightforward terms a unmarried lady. they're going to chase her to dying and one will bully the different male. And particular, guppies CAN populate a tank like no ones organization, particularly in case you have plant life around so the infants can conceal. so as to guard against the adult males bullying one yet another, you ought to think of approximately offering a 'harem' including 2 women people for each male. Now, in case you do no longer prefer to reproduce, follow adult males.
2016-10-17 01:24:22 · answer #7 · answered by zaragosa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about a plant, but my brother had this little sucker fish that just sucked up all the dirty stuff in the tank. It ended up getting pretty big. I was surprised b/c he didn't really need to feed it since it ate all the yucky things... I don't know much about fish, but my brother told me they help to keep the tank clean.
2007-06-12 08:41:14 · answer #8 · answered by Sum 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
kylie has the best plan -- i keep mine in 2 1/2 gallon unfiltered. plants do live off of detritus and java moss will use nutrients that algae would use to grow but if you want to clean less get a bigger home for them.
2007-06-12 12:36:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. But there is a fish called an algy eater. Guess what it does. It eats algy!
2007-06-12 08:43:14 · answer #10 · answered by Rangerfan619 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋