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Spider-betta
With great betta, comes great responsibility.
Created on 2003-07-12 00:37:35 (#1177330), last updated 2009-07-06
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picture by Joseph Tame
It's true that wild bettas live in rice fields or padi. It's not true that they live in puddles. The picture above is of a rice field - the water is kept at a depth of at least 6 inches up to a few feet for most of the year. This water is drained shortly prior to harvest, and it is at this time that bettas utilise the survival tactic given to them with the labyrinth organ: the ability to survive in very little water.
Some small 'betta bowls' don't even allow 6 inches in water depth, and those that do certainly do not allow a betta the space to stretch his fins and swim as he does in the wild. The common argument "but they live in puddles in rice fields!" is utter rubbish - the natural environment for a betta encompasses smaller pools, slow flowing streams, and shallow but otherwise very large bodies of still water.
With that in mind, welcome to
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bettafishowners!New Users: Please read the memories section before posting, as we just might have the answer to your question book marked! :D Also: please check out National Fish Pharmaceutical's page if you need help diagnosing disease or deciding on a treatment - it's quite a comprehensive resource.
And you Betta look sharp!
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vcartist is a big Betta Dork, but she is the Betta Mod. So you'd Betta behave, or she'll make you wish you were a Betta person.catdraco! cAt is happy to answer questions about Bettas, or about web-type things (using html, posting images, and the like). Her Bettas don't like staying still for photos - but cAt is prepared to forgive this misdemeanour, as she loves them anyway.and...
stormcat! A good source of betta info - and lots of fun to boot. Play nice, now!cougarfish! One of our newest mods.kyboshia! Our other newest mod who also know lots of information about bettas and is also happy to answer any questions anybody may have.A few rules to follow please:
- No Flaming
- No Spamming (this includes community advertisements - you want to post one, you ask a mod)
- No Trolling
- Only Pictures of Naked Betta Fish please (again, no community promos) *
- And please stay on topic. Anything and everything about bettas! :)
*Large images are Betta behind lj-cuts, as some people have slow connections, some people post at work (naughty!), and others just have very long Friends pages. We LOVE to see photos of your Bettas, though, so if you need help with use of the lj-cut feel free to ask
catdraco.Important note about photos:
We love to see betta images. The more, the better! But we do insist on a certain amount of consideration for community members' friends pages. To this end, the following policy regarding image posting is in place:
All pictures wider than 400 pixels must go behind a cut.
1-2 pictures may be posted without a cut if they are under 400 pixels wide.
When posting multiple pictures, all but one picture must go behind a cut; and the picture left un-cut must be 400 pixels or less in width.
If you're unsure how to use an <lj-cut>, please ask
catdraco. cAt may be reached at catdraco @ livejournal.com.The mods don't want to run around cleaning up after you, but if you don't edit your post with an <lj-cut> on request, we will delete your post. If we're in a good mood we'll repost it ourselves for you, but don't count on any of us being in a good mood if we have to delete a post - because we hate doing that! =)
We love to show off our fish. This means that sometimes we will use pictures of your fish to make backgrounds, icons, that sort of thing. If you post pictures here, we'll assume it's okay for us to do that. If it isn't, please put a note with the photo when you post it - something like "personal photo only". Most people love to see their bettas becoming "famous", but not everyone does. If we use one of your pictures, and you aren't happy with the idea, please contact
catdraco directly on catdraco @ livejournal.com and we'll sort it out lickety-split.Please note: we do not encourage the theft of copyright images, ever.
thank you to
allblood_nroses for this lovely icon.qgirl for the lovely multi-color betta fish icon.and thanks to
nicalycab for her betta background for the community!For future reference, users have had problems with the following vendors on Aquabid:
Wwwrarebettascom
Hopefully we won't have to update that list too often. =(
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