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I just received a betta fish as a gift from a wedding ceremony.

I know these fishes are carnivores, can I feed it my own blood?
>> Anonymous
>>343753
I always feel sad for the fish stuck in those tiny bowls.
>> Anonymous
>>343756

You can put a beta fish in a 110 gallon tank and it wont use it... unless you put two of them in there then they would fight... but they would probably only use about 1/4 of the tank
>> Anonymous
I had a friend who owned a series of bettas that lived in a normal sized fishbowl and they all lived, at the very least, 5 years, and I know one made it to almosst 7. I'm sick of the faggots crying BUY YOUR BETTA A 203843984903249023 GALLON FISH TANK OR HE'LL BE MISERABLE AND DIE IN 2 MONTHS YOU GODLESS FISH KILLER.
>> Anonymous
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We have a pretty blue and pink Betta that's lived in a rounded glass vase for four years so far. It has a plant in it, so he feeds off that whenever he wants and we feed him daily.


His name is chester.
>> Anonymous
>>343822
The average betta lives 3 years, and they are almost a year old usually when they are sold.
To have a series of 5+ year old fish is astronomically improbable.

Do you lie to yourself about everything?
>> paula !3GqYIJ3Obs
>>343837
betta fish can live up to 5 years as long as you don't suck at taking care of them.
>> Anonymous
>>343761
That is SO not true. You have no idea what you're talking about.

>>343822
Neither do you. You can keep a goldfish in a bowl for years, too, doesn't mean you should.
>> Anonymous !ww.sneyT9A
I had a betta that lived in a 20gal tropical fish tank with a bunch of tetras and a pleco. It pretty much always hung out in the same one spot, up near the top in one of the corners. It didn't seem to care about the other fish. I think it lived for about 3 years.
>> Anonymous
I had one in a community tank with Tetras for about 5 years before it jumped out and the cat ate it. It was peaceful and it swam all over the place. They are good swimmers if they have the room.
>> Anonymous
>>343834
Bettas don't eat plants.
>> Anonymous
>>343853
/I/ did not. I said it was a FRIEND who did. I don't give a damn one way or another about fish.
>> cichlid !!WhOQyKVA829
>>343887

Fucking truth.
If given warm enough waters and more space, happy fish is happy. I've seen really beautiful bettas given 5 gallon tanks at the local fish store. They arn't really active swimmers by nature though.
If you want an ADHD swim-tastic fish, get some danios.

>>343753
OP, no fish survives on blood.
Many MANY fish are carnivores besides the over-hyped piranha. Just feed them betta food.
You could buy live (frozen) bloodworms, and your betta would probably love you for it. You'll notice he'll be more active and colorful if given these on occasion.
>> Anonymous
>>343895
Actually, the candiru is a fish that survives entirely on blood.
and it sometimes crams itself up peoples dicks and vaginas and holds itself in with big spines.
>> Anonymous
I've always owned bettas, there's hardly been a time when I didn't have one. I had some odd disease rip through my tanks and kill only my bettas this year, and I'd had the one for almost two years.

Apparently it ran it's course and I have another purple, pink and gold one in my community tank with gouramis, a large angelfish and a female swordtail.. He's actually pretty active (If only to flare up and put the angel fish in his place).
>> Anonymous
>>343888

They eat the roots/algea of plants.
>> No Name
I had one in a 10gal tank with tetras but the tetras nipped at his fins and stressed it out. He ended up with a fungus and it was too late to treat him. Male bettas are better off in a tank by themselves.

Frozen bloomworms is like crack to fish lol.
>> Anonymous
>>344923
no, they don't. Bettas are carnivorous. If you see them picking at the plant it is usually because you are starving them. but even then, they won't be able to assimilate anything from the plant material.
>> Anonymous
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

Bettas cannot survive on plants any more than a snake can.
>> Anonymous
Art

Members of the group monochrom prepared blood pudding out of their own blood and ate it. The performance (staged in 2003 in Vienna) was accompanied by political essays about the 'autocannibalistic' tendencies of the global economy. The event, called "Viennese Factionism: Auto-Blood-Sausage", also can be interpreted as a critical statement about art, art history and the art market (Viennese Actionism). ORF FM4, Arte

Who cares about why they did it. YOU do it. Feed it to fish. Take pics.
>> Anonymous
I want one of those giant silver and red bettas
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