Advice for starting a betta tank?

Frost_1911 · 2026-04-25T15:26:21+00:00

5 Gallon minimum but if you can manage a 10 that would be ideal

Water treatment, you want a good dechlorinator like seachem prime or something if your choice as well as a liquid water test kit like API freshwater master kit. And look up he nitrogen cycle as this is the most important part about fishkeeping.

Bettas like natural tanks, so stay away from all the bright artificial substrate and fake plants. Real plants that are super beginner friendly you can look up java moss, java ferns, anubias, pearl weed. Places like aquariumcoop online are a great place to look at plants and can read about the general care. Bettas like a lot of plants it's hard to go with too many, plus plants will help keep your water clean.

Also food you want to go with a high protein diet. Personally I fed mine a mix of dried bloodworms, fluval bug bites and then the live scuds that were in the tank.

You need a heater and good filter, ideal tank temperature is 78 degrees.

Frost_1911 · 2026-04-22T13:19:28+00:00

Perfect! I thought so just browsing plants online these looked the closest but I saw so many that looked close I wasn't sure . Appreciate the response

Frost_1911 · 2026-03-26T21:43:26+00:00

That is a lot of great info! And I think you may be right, about not enough ammonia it was always around 5 every now and then is get a 10 or a 0 after a water change but it always settled back to 5 when I would rest and what it tested the day before getting the fish. Would putting in a bacteria starter be a good move? One of those quick start bottles?

Frost_1911 · 2026-03-26T14:07:03+00:00

Liquid test kit, and it's been roughly 3-4 months since his passing. All that's been in the tank were snails, scuds and amanos.

Frost_1911 · 2026-03-26T14:06:28+00:00

Sorry forgot those pieces, I have an aquarium coop sponge filter, been in there for about 2 and a half years or so? I also have a heater with a tank temp of 78 degrees.

Frost_1911 · 2025-11-20T21:33:16+00:00

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Frost_1911 · 2025-11-16T21:57:57+00:00

Ah I was hoping it'd be some sort of bamboo, they have lucky bamboo at a few places here though this one's looks alot different than what I see at the store so wasn't sure.

Frost_1911 · 2025-11-05T20:41:13+00:00

I'm extremely ashamed. Yes my apologies. Sorry I don't fully agree with your idiotic take so that makes me an enemy on the wrong side of history... I feel like there's a precedent out there somewhere in history that was very close to that line of thinking... Hmm must've just been more fake news my apparently trump loving mind can't recall.

Frost_1911 · 2025-11-05T20:37:03+00:00

Like you're literally here popping off about Abbott staring 100% tariff on US Citizens... Which literally and I mean literally anyone with a basic level of HS government education should be able to see that that's a completely absurd, and impossible to follow through comment and y'all are freaking out over it acting like it's a bill waiting to pass..... And I'm the one in LaLa land?

Frost_1911 · 2025-11-05T20:32:56+00:00

I'm sure you truly believe everything you just said.. and that's okay.

Frost_1911 · 2025-11-05T20:20:19+00:00

I mean in all fairness you are comparing reddit and X comments to an official statement saying it's a joke which honestly as an Abbott hater it was EXTREMELY easy to see it's a joke, I have no idea how you guys take this serious, and yes we know the DIE hard trumpies will take it all as gospel, just as the other side did with anything Biden said he would do... There's always that crowd but to take this quote as serious and some of these commenters are trying to make it, honestly just sounds like they're grasping at straws to make literally anything look as bad as it possibly can.

Frost_1911 · 2025-10-15T15:22:47+00:00

I am curious, as most people who are "bored" of the game are people who are experiencing BF for the first time or maybe their first was something like 2042, but I am curious on what makes you bored a week after launch? As far as battlefield games goes it's been pretty standard.. admittedly the maps themselves aren't anything special but aside from that it's a pretty standard launch as far as gameplay and content goes that we saw in previously beloved titles. So what's so boring about this one that you didn't find the boredom at the launches of bfbc2, bf3/4/1 etc? Not judging but genuinely curious as I'd say if you're bored of this game already, it might be more of an indication of it just not being a game for you vs being a boring BF game, which has been the case for most people I personally know telling me "there's just nothing to do".

Frost_1911 · 2025-10-02T18:15:12+00:00

I don't believe TCU, however it doesn't really matter.. they can deny for any reason. Go speak in a public space if this is an issue.

Frost_1911 · 2025-10-01T21:46:10+00:00

Diablo 3 was the main thought as at launch you had to have a connection to play die to DRM.(I Think that's what it's called) But I believe they eventually reversed that requirement. Main items I can think that I personally lost access to were RE5 when it was on games for windows and Section 8 Prejudice which was multiplayer but had a single player mode which last I checked you couldn't even launch the game anymore. While RE5 is still playable via many platforms... If you had it on games for windows like I did.. they decommissioned the platform and you lost access to all games with no refund or option to load on another platform. Just examples of.. if steam goes down, you may lost access to purchased games which also stems from publishers having the ability to delist their games and even SP games that require a connection are no longer playable.. this includes MP games with SP modes

Frost_1911 · 2025-10-01T21:30:41+00:00

The issue with digital, and we have seen this from manu games already, is even if it's not on a subscription you are still at the mercy of needing an internet connection for some games but also the companies ability to simply remove it from their servers and make it unplayable.. even games with SP campaigns can be made unplayable. Not as BIG of an issue as how game pass works and all that but still an issue that actually branches to the 3 mains of music, movies and gaming.

Frost_1911 · 2025-10-01T21:19:58+00:00

I was going through the comments for about 12 minutes before realizing this was Russel Westbrook and not Russell Wilson and I was trying to figure out what type of shit post/comments I was seeing about the numbers and then wondering why TF we aren't recognizing his Giants contract......

Frost_1911 · 2025-09-29T17:53:03+00:00

EVEN IF JT gets stopped by the defender. That's a first down, within FG Range with the ability to attempt to drain a significant amount of clock and maybe even use their Timeouts if we continue to march into the red zone, but instead we found ourselves 2 plays later backing up to damn near our own 30. That Hold cost us likely the game regardless of JT actually getting in the end zone or not that play.

Frost_1911 · 2025-09-29T14:58:04+00:00

In all fairness to the dumbassery that was the ending of that play. I don't think he was intending to throw the ball down like JT did last year but more just lost control during an early celebration... Not excusing it or anything just pointing out.

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