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    Thread: Help needed asap

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      Help needed asap

      ok well here is my issue so you may or may not know that I am going to camp on saturday and I have alot of tanks. my mom doesnt want to take care of all the fish. I have 4 betta tanks and she says she wont take care of all the tanks so I have to make a pond for them I have bred bettas and now that they fight but I know given enough space they will all calm down and take there tertories and it will be heavly planted. so now to the pond question I am going to buy a pre formed liner becuase it needs to be seperate from the other fish in the pond it will have a it will be tied into the pond via a low flow pump becuase betta dont like heavy currents. so my plan was to add a t and a ball valvue off one of my pumps have water be pumped in and have a diy retro gravity flow back to the pond look at the drawing and tell me what you think of this idea I leave on saturay so needs to be done fast also will post pic of the preformed pond I am going to be using for this. also I will inclued how I am going to modify the prefored to fit with my pond.
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      Lot's of plants, low flow in, trickle out.... Sounds like a plan.

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      you could get floating baby fish cages that are made out of netting and float them in your pond. it would save you a ton.

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      How long are you going to be gone, and how large are the tanks your bettas are in now? The good news is that bettas are extremely tolerant of poor water conditions. The bad news is that they are not tolerant of each other. I would be afraid that plants alone will not be enough to prevent them from finding each other and causing significant damage.

      I do agree that the floating cages would be a good way to go, but I am not sure you need something as big as a preform pond. If your current tanks have established filtration, they can go a long time with no maintenance and an even longer time without feeding. The bigger the tanks are, the longer they can go unattended.

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      Well I have done beta pond in the past. Ski a confident with that one for the cages it just not really a good idea because of space and the fact that it is going to. Be for about a month when say plants I ran FILLED with hornwart and other things like that so they can hide. Now does the bd check out will it be ok?
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      If you are going to have it above ground before you go, make sure it is placed in shade so that you don't cook them. Those black plastic things heat up fast in sun.

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      well being that bettas usaly are kept at 80 degrees in my heated tanks they like it warm there tropical.
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      This amazes me...a kid goes to camp and a mom can't feed his fish?
      Will she feed them twice a week while you are gone?...even once/week and you'll have over 90% survive. I used to raise Bettas for store credit(mostly) back in the 1970's.
      The local Mont-ala bar provided me with all the used paper cups I could get out of there trash cans for the males. As long as I kept a betta wet it lived to die of old age.
      I'd leave the fish where they are and not waste all that money on an unproven system. Your losses will be less if they stay where they are and your "mom" feeds them once a week...
      Do you go out and harvest mosquito larva? Is that her issue... certainly dropping a few flakes/pellets of food in each container every couple of days isn't too demanding on her schedule? Perhaps you can pay her? (Does that sound as odd to you as it does to me?)
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      well yea we arent the best of freinds we have had some problems in the past but we have found ways to coexits can anyone make some sugestions of what I should add to the setup when not houseing bettas it will house a turtle so can any 1 suggest anything for the turtles.
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      what is the advantage to placing them in that "thing"?the only thing they are going to eat is each other. without knowing anything else about your bettas i would say at best 20 will survive a month in that thing IF you have proper planting. And only a few will be healthier than if you left each in a cup in a room where they stayed between 72-80 degrees
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      a cup that they can't jump out of
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      Barley 20 it's like 3-4 at the most and I'm not worried about them jumping again anything about setup and update it will have a bd it will be a 2 in shower drain with a ball vauleve to only only a little water out.
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      They sell small feed pods for vacation feeding. Why not leave them where they are with one of the pods? I also raised betas and I don't think plants are enough to keep the males away from each other.
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      if there are only five bettas then you don't need to filter the thing at all...as a mater of FACT it'd be better if you didn't. bettas do not like a current..any current. The whole reason they can breathe air is because they live in STAGNANT water....
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      the thing you have to worry about is predators...a bird will eat them like jelly beans, and they move about as fast. Net it.
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      alot cheaper would be to get a bucket(dollar store) for each betta and sink it in the ground so that it has some buffering of the temperature.
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      LukeF... That's the best idea I've seen here! Nice one!

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      i'd have said it sooner if he told me he only had a few bettas. way back in the 1970's I'd have 400-500 bettas at this time of the year (warm weather meant I could "expand my operation outside of my bedroom). of which 3/4ths would be males, the rest were fish to young to want to fight or female breeders.
      I can remember my biggest catastrophes were when a strong shower would whip through my side of town while I was still at school. It'd blow a bunch of cups over but it'd get the ground good and wet so I could pick em up and put them back in cups without losing many.
      Finding mosquito larva was the hardest part of the job. they'd grow if you fed them tetra min flakes but not like when they got mosquito larva..I bet I was responsible for half the mosquito bites in my neighborhood.
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      i've turned bettas loose in the swamp and in lotus tubs in the yard..I wonder how they tasted? They never lasted long.
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