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Anonymous
has anyone here giving all this advice (and by advice, i mean 'cycling means running the filter for 2 days' and 'put females with males lulz, they raep each other') actually kept a fish alive for more than a few weeks? jesus h. people
OP - clean water, a tiny heater and aquarium salt are good things to have. filters are completely unnecessary with bettas, because they get a great deal of their oxygen by breathing air.
1. keep his water clean. the smaller the container he's in, the more frequent his water changes need to be. if he's in a bowl, 100% water changes. if in a tank, 25% weekly changes.
2. gradually acclimate him to salt. get a cup, put some of his water in it, let the salt dissolve and slowly (over the course of hours) add the salinated water to his bowl
3. give him an aquatic heater (minimum bowl size = 2+ gallons), it should say on the box what size they're made for. the raised temp speeds the life cycle of the parasite, the cysts burst, and the salt kills the larvae
READ THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE SALT CONTAINER FOR HOW MUCH TO ADD. it varies sometimes
the most important part of keeping fish healthy is clean water, a clean environment and aquarium salt are the best disease preventative measures
and my apologies for coming off like an asshole in the beginning, seeing some of the fishkeeping info floating around that will only wind up killing the fish annoys me
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