Recent content by Islandlife

I was watching him today. Fed his the dried brine shrimp this morning but he didn't even look at it. Gave him a couple of pellets but he also let them just sit and float. I'm going to take my net to work tomorrow and switch him and my other guy. Water might be cycling... OR this guy might...

I've had, over the years, lots of regular bettas. Never tried to breed them buy have always kept at least 1 or 2 at any given time. One in my office and one at home. I recently came across a 5 gallon old fashioned flat sided aquarium. Put about 2" of brown aquarium gravel in the bottom, an...

Will look for this. I much prefer natural growing plants to plastic. I tend to shop in Petco cause it is closest and hopefully they'll have some. Thanks for the info!

Something else I do which all Bettas have seemd to love is I clip off philodendrons and root them in the water. I usually take several long sections of the vine, break off the lower leaves and put the ends into the water. The leaves still on the vine decorate the top of the aquarium. As the...

At a garage sale I found some old old fish tank ornaments. Ceramic. All styled into Asian type houses, bridges. About 10 to 12 pieces in all. Must've been some BIG and very decorated tank. On of the pieces has open 'windows' in it. The betta in the aquarium I have this in just LOVES to...