Betta Channoids

**akababy** · 2nd Jun 2010, 09:43

Hm.. Ok will monitor the male this few days.. So you guys think I should quickly get him a partner?

**Mudskipper** · 2nd Jun 2010, 10:48

Something that you should consider doing is aging your water. in other words, rather than use tap water with anti-chlorine, do that and keep the water in a pail for a few days before using it. Of course, must aerate it. I usually put some ketapang leaves in the pail too so that the water turns brownish. Wild bettas tend to like that.

As for rushing out to get a female, I would hold off for now. No point spending the extra bucks until you are comfortable and ready to do it. For now, take care of your male and learn from this experience. Good luck.

**akababy** · 2nd Jun 2010, 11:49

Thanks bro! Do I add anti cholorine if I aged it?

**Mudskipper** · 2nd Jun 2010, 12:31

Yes, you can but check on amount. Long time ago, I didn't know that you can kill fish with too much anti-chlorine too. This was before I got into wild bettas. I killed a whole tank full of almost 100 endlers. So sad. All died within minutes some more. Don't overdose on anything.

**johannes** · 2nd Jun 2010, 14:19

It is better for you to add antichlorine and aerate the water at the same time.

Seachem prime is good, a little pricey, but it is concentrated so you only need to dose little amount and the good thing is that overdosing is not a problem..

**akababy** · 3rd Jun 2010, 09:08

haha yeah i now very scared always add at least half cap to a small pail of water... Really need to aerate 3 days ar?

**Mudskipper** · 3rd Jun 2010, 11:18

It's up to you. I personally won't use any water from any of my pails that are less than 3 days old. By then the water is nice and brown by the tannins from the ketapang leaves.

**exotic_idiot** · 3rd Jun 2010, 14:50

Originally Posted by akababy

Fellow brothers... my female B.Channoides just died... When i came back from work today.. I don't know whats wrong aren't channiodes suppose to be a hardy fish like normal betta?

Came back and saw her floating lifelessly at the surface =( Super depress now.

Check my water parameter looks ok and ph seems to be on the low side due to CO2 injection. Now i am only left with the male.

My harlequin and cardinal tetras are as usual doing well but the female B.Channoides died =(

Any bro can help me out? My most expensive fish so far and i am only left with the male now...

You can get your new female from green chapter.. If only get female it's only half the price of a pair.
Don't be too sad, a lot of people encounter same problem before. Sometimes not even your fault that your fish die.

**Mudskipper** · 3rd Jun 2010, 14:55

Green Chapter/Midori have great quality fish. My first pair of channoides was from them. Cannot go wrong buying from them.

**exotic_idiot** · 3rd Jun 2010, 20:22

Originally Posted by Mudskipper

Yes, you can but check on amount. Long time ago, I didn't know that you can kill fish with too much anti-chlorine too. This was before I got into wild bettas. I killed a whole tank full of almost 100 endlers. So sad. All died within minutes some more. Don't overdose on anything.

That's true.. I encounter once that I just topup water straight from the tap and my killifish somehow just reacted swimming abnormally and start trying to jump out of the tank, I just add in anti-Chorine and it's fine after few minutes.. If not might find floating or dry up bodys somewhere..

**akababy** · 3rd Jun 2010, 23:19

hm.. ok green chapter ar... i go find where is it

**kenny** · 4th Jun 2010, 00:00

My channoides female also just died about a week ago....
And since then, the male hasn't been eating much. I feed it frozen blood worms it also didn't care...he used to be very voracious at feeding time.
should I be worried ?

**Mudskipper** · 4th Jun 2010, 08:20

I think we need to keep in mind that wild bettas (as far as I know) are not monogamous fish. They don't mate for life, so I think that any bonds that are built last pretty much during the course of mating/spawning. I had a lone male alone in a tank for a while and he did just fine...he didn't rush for the food anymore because there wasn't anyone to compete for food with him. But just yesterday, I placed him back in a tank with some others...and he started rushing for food again.

Unless there are other conditions that are making him listless, I would not worry too much. Keep monitoring and as long as he does eat, he should be fine.