These Will KILL Your Betta Fish!! Top 5 Reasons Bettas Die! 

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Hey excuse me can I put a female Betta with a male Betta in a 10 gallon

@@Bro-kt2uo u can do that fore mating only and that to u got to be careful

Hey I love you guys 🥰 you’ve helped me so much and I’ve been watching for a LONG time :) one day I’ll get a betta from u and everything she needs 💕

@@Bro-kt2uo i have a male and female betta in my 40 gallon community tank and they are super peaceful so honestly it depends on the specific betta because i have another male that has to be by himself because he is so territorial/aggressive. and having lots of plants helps a ton!

My pets mart just took all their glow fish bettas and made a sorority out of them so more people look at them and buy them it made me happy watching them all swim around they legit looked happy

It is illegal in uk fish stores are required by law to give stocked fish a reasonable living space

My local petco is keeping the females in sororities too 👍

@@CookieCrafter475 they need to ban selling fish imo. As much as I love them, but they suffer and die so much in stores or by owners that don't take care of them very well. It's so sad and cruel :/ I got my 1st betta ever in a wedding in 2010, cause they were table decorations, so at the time I didn't know anything about bettas, so he only lived for 3 months in his 1 gallon tank. It was actually my parents betta, but they had him in my bedroom. We only changed his water once every 2 weeks... Now that I know more about fish keeping, I feel so bad about that fishy 🥺

Why hasn’t this happened yet. We need to protest about this

I did the same thing, His name is Neptune! I impulsively bought him with a 5 gallon tank when I was going to the pet store to get cat toys. I didn't buy him until I was educated enough to get a basic 5 gal set up. :) Hes my happy boi. I'm gonna upgrade him to a 10 gal tank at some point in the year.

i had the same experience, i rescued 4 female bettas and 3 were eggbound and didnt make it thru the night. one was sooo beautiful too bright pink with baby blue. the surviving one is just red but what she lacks in color she makes up for in personality! shes super friendly and loves to interact too

Peaches is a cute name 🙂

@@betsybenson6417 Thanks. He used to be all peach colored, but as he has gotten older he is changing. People at pond shop told me as Betta's age. color will change.

Peaches is a boy, but will keep the name for him.

Thanks for watching 😊

i love the foreground. Hubba hubba!

Wow it's really strange it lived that long in a bowl. Mine lived for an year and a half and died because of my absence. Good job. Bigger is sometimes better

same honestly, mine only lived about two and a half years. We live in a cold part of the world and it blows my mind how coincidentially his tank was in the warmest room in the house where the temperature almost never dipped below 70 even if it was in the negatives outside, and could get as warm as 80 in the summer months

@@luckymuddypawdidn’t you buy a tank heater?

@@NEnigma777 nope, my bedroom is directly above the furnace room though

GOOD FOR YOU--IF THAT IS POLICY THEN IS MY POLICY TO YELL OUT THE CORRECT ANSWER TO CUSTOMERS😡

Sounds like the Betta should be rescued from you!

@@InFideScientiam bro we all make mistakes. They did the right thing when they realised it. Downgrading tank not the best thing but getting rid of the rock, yeh

@@fraud6156 I don’t make mistakes

@@InFideScientiamyou probably do constantly but you just refuse to accept responsibility, I’ve made mistakes before but that’s why I micromanage my tanks and nothing goes wrong very often now, I did and still do lots of research and I genuinely believe there will never be a point where I’ll know it all.

You should've called me Drew!

@@rootsnwhiskers8351 Wait are u actually Lisa

Roxy likes to hang out with me when I do videos now 😊

@@rootsnwhiskers8351 she is precious ,🐾🐾

Thank you! I have an obsession with house plants lol

Plants.. right. That's what I was looking at as well...

She a talking doll

great job!!

Petco that I go to is great with their Betta's. They do have some Betta's in cup's, but they have a high turn around rate. They also keep Betta's in about 6 of the community tank's as well. The PetSmart's in my area are a different story.

im glad your petco had good bettas,,, the one I got my betta from had multiple dead and decaying bettas, and the one I adopted was in a phase of near death starvation :/

You're ABSOLUTELY right! I purchased 3 different Bettas in a week because they kept dying.

This is very true. Our first Betta was from a local pet shop. The tanks never looked that clean, Bettas were in with other, nippy fish and often other Betta (usually just the females, but tanks were small and the females were covered in stress stripes) etc. We used to go in to get other pet bits. One day I sent my son to look at the fish while I got bits. He fell in love with a male Betta. We'd never had fish and I didn't want to get a full set up and then a month later, he's not interested, so we left it. We had a holiday booked and I knew nothing about fish, definitely nothing about Betta. We kept popping back and he kept looking at that one fish, he even named it. That's when I knew, if he didn't get sold he would be coming home with us at some point. I did loads of research. Got a 10 gallon tank with a heater, filter, live plants, some with big leaves, so he could rest on them as I'd read Bettas liked that. He also had a floating log thing. I started cycling the tank. A couple of months later, the tank was finally ready and we went to pick him up. He was a veiltail, but his poor fins were a raggedy mess. It was 6 months since my son had first seen him and fallen in love. He was a full grown when we first saw him, not young and we'd not been in there and looked at the fish before that first time we saw him, so he coukd potentially have been in those cramped, less than ideal conditions, with nippy tank mates for over a year for all I know. He was a goid sized male when we got him and hadn't grown since the first time we saw him, so my guess was he was a minimum of 9 months old when we got him, but he could have been a lot older than that. He loved his new home, which he shared with a couple of nerite snails. Sadly we only had him a year and a half before he passed away. His fins started growing back shortly after he moved in with us, partially because of the regular water changes and partly because of the Indian Almond Leaves I put in the tank with him. I think unfortunately, his life before he came to us limited how long we would get to enjoy his company. I also very much doubt they were that bothered about good genetics either, so that may have been a factor too.

You do realize that they live in muddy shallow pools of water? The worst thing you can do is clean your tank too much. Oh and get a few snails to help clean the poo.

I treat them very good but they don't live a long life. My bettas lived few months until almost 2 years. In nature a Betta live 1 or 2 years but in captivity he can live more than 3 years but it's not the average. Lisa don't speak about genetics and breeding who can short sometime the life of fishs (example Guppies who can live 5 years in 1960's).

Just cycling my betta tank. 15 gallons, live plants, smooth rock formation for him to investigate, betta hammock for him to rest on. 😊 hopefully he will be happy x

@@snapdragon2441 😊

Eduardo thank you so much 🥰 I'm glad the girls are doing well!

And the boys 😊

@Madeleine Canning - putting cat fish in with bettas is a great idea, but catfish like being around other catfish, so you should have 4-6 catfish and not Just one, or your one catfish will be stressed and lonely.

and make sure to cycle your tank

Oh WOW I wish I could see that beauty!! That's my goal , with a couple houseplants rooted at the top. What a lucky Betta!!

Thanks for watching 😊

Thanks for watching 😊

Awesome 😊 you're gonna love her!

Thank you so much 😊

Thank you Lumpydog 🙂

Had one with endlers but they nip him during feeding time so I swapped to green neon tetras. Been peaceful ever since

Male bettas go with guppies?

Don't keep them with guppies. The baby guppies nipped at his fins. I seen it to late. He was not happy. Now I struggle to get him healthy. I gonna get rid of all the guppies. I have him in his own tank now.

@@taniamans2026 I have that same issue, the guppies nipped at my betta's and i just had to euthanize him today, saw the fin rot too late and i couldn't get my 5 gal tank cycled in time. I'm new to fish keeping but my next batch of fish i'm getting in my 10 gallon will be neon tetras and otto's. I'm new to fish keeping so i guess now i know, that these guppies are too feisty with bettas R.I.P Comet. :(

My betta lives with mollies :)

how exactly did you keep your last one, water type, foods and all that

I Get The " Rock Works Under Construction Signs Out " And Place These Around The Aquarium. Also Lowering The Speed Limit During Construction Works . ( Having Advised The Police Department And The Hospital / Veterinary ) There Hasn't Been Any Major Issues .

@@boboften9952 😂👏

Don't wait! Those leaves have healing prperties & other benefits Hurry.

@@vblackwell3347 Thanks. He's all healed now but I plan to get one when next I go to the fish store for blood worms. His favorite!

Thank you Paul 😊

@@rootsnwhiskers8351 Your welcome 😊

They are all separated by dividers to btw.

Thank you CJ 🙂

I decided to move my 3 ember tetras from my community tank in with my beta. They were totally lost in the bigger tank. In the 10 with the beta they seem to be doing well. He is ignoring them because they're so small... and they're fast enough to evade him if he decides to go after them.

If your betta is living it up in a 10 gallon, might I suggest a few shrimp or snails if you want to provide "roommates"? Ramshorn snails are decent for algae cleanup and don't spawn lots of babies in the tank (they lay their eggs above the waterline, so you can scoop them out if you don't want more), plus they come in several beautiful colours. Shrimp have a roughly 50/50 chance of surviving with your Betta since like most carnivorous fish they might try snacking on the smaller/weaker shrimp, but it all depends on your fish's temperment and how many hiding spots the shrimp have to escape predation. It's entirely possible they might get along!

@@thejasminedragonmerchant6843 Thank you! I actually put 6 ember tetra in the tank and they are doing well. I just ordered snails which are coming today. I was wondering about shrimp. I may try that. Thank you!