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Betta home - good and bad

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EDIT- People have been asking about my dividers, here is how I made them :)
The dividers I have in there are plastic mesh ([link]) (used for cross-stitching) slipped into poster hangers ([link]) and then securely stuck inside the tank :D The best way to secure it to the tank is my using aquarium-safe silicone :) Heres another angle of my tank, so you can see it better - [link] taken before I had live plants :P



...Staring my betta Albie. On the right, is how I shamefully kept him for a few months. On the left, is how he is kept now, in a 16g (60l) divided tank. He has just over 5g to himself :)

Left is good (not perfect), right is NOT good.

(Ahem... ignore the insane-ness of the light.. I broke the glass lid when I was cleaning the tank.... it now has a temporary lid of plastic sheets...)

For your betta to start being happy, a minimum of 2.5g (10l) of heated, conditioned, filtered water, with live or silk plants (not plastic, as they tear the bettas fins), a lid (bettas are jumpers) and a hiding place for your betta.

There is never too much room for your betta, only too little :)

Also never keep males with females, as they will still fight.. and certainly, never, under any circumstances have two males together, unless you want your fish to look like this - [link] :no:
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lokiliciouss's avatar
May I ask what plants you have in that tank? And how you filter / heat it?

I plan to do something like this in the future when I actually have the room for a larger tank. So for right now they all have their own tanks or a couple divided ones. xD I've always been curious on how people properly filter their larger divided tanks.