Hello, I was wondering how i could make a betta pond?
What would be an ideal container or material to make this pond out of?
I realize betta cannot be in deep water, so i will lower the water level down to around 7-9 inches and throw a bunch of water lettuce and amazon frogbit in there for cover.
What would be good filtration for such a pond? cant be too strong for the betta, but i guess it cant be just a few sponge filters…?
This will obviously be heated at around 79-80F…so i guess ill need a few heaters.
The reason im am looking into doing this is because i need a large amount of water to house a lot of plakat betta fry. Im planning of only housing females in this pond, and ill pick out the males as they grow…
Thanks for any help!
Thank you answer man, that does give me an idea of building a wooden-board support for the pond…but i am wondering i i can ust use a big container instead of a kiddy pool..
neils, I like the way you think lol.
Yes, than kyou hope, realize thats true now, that they have more room. but im not going to risk that anyway. the only way im putting males in there is if i get some hemaphroditic males from the batch. for anyone’s info hemaphroditic males are very rare, and they barely have any agression to other males. they are also sterile…

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Hey,
So my friend is going back to college, and wants a betta fish. Well, getting the fish or not is not up for consideration, she intends to get the fish no matter what. It’s the only pet she can have there, and plans to go through with it regardless of what I say or show her ( my many guys and gals are living like kings and queens in 5 and 6 gallon filtered and heated homes).
The thing is, she’s perpetually broke.
So, I’m going to get her the heater no mater what, that’s not a problem. At the very least, they’ll be the proper temp.
The problem is the actual housing.
She wants to get either the 1.5 water wonders tank with filter http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3804454 or a larger roughly 4 gallon glass bowl she saw at Home Goods.
Either way, they work out to be about the same price, so no help there.
What’s better for the betta fish? Space or filtration?
I’m a poor college student myself, so helping out with a heater for her x-mas present is as far as I can really go (I’m tapped out after x-mas shopping).
In the long run, what’s best for the betta’s health; about 4 gallons of water to stretch his fins out so to speak, but no filtration, or a smaller tank that has a filter?
Help! I want to steer her in the best direction : (
13.99 is for just the glass, not lid, no light. and since betta’s are jumpers, that a majot no-no. a ten galloon with the cheaoest top is about 30$, beyond her budget.
And I wish any were near me sold a plain rectangular 5 gallon, but no such luck, they’re all expensive kits like the eclispe ones.

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Hey,
So my friend is going back to college, and wants a betta fish. Well, getting the fish or not is not up for consideration, she intends to get the fish no matter what. It’s the only pet she can have there, and plans to go through with it regardless of what I say or show her ( my many guys and gals are living like kings and queens in 5 and 6 gallon filtered and heated homes).
The thing is, she’s perpetually broke.
So, I’m going to get her the heater no mater what, that’s not a problem. At the very least, they’ll be the proper temp.
The problem is the actual housing.
She wants to get either the 1.5 water wonders tank with filter http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.js… or a larger roughly 4 gallon glass bowl she saw at Home Goods.
Either way, they work out to be about the same price, so no help there.
What’s better for the betta fish? Space or filtration?
I’m a poor college student myself, so helping out with a heater for her x-mas present is as far as I can really go (I’m tapped out after x-mas shopping).
In the long run, what’s best for the betta’s health; about 4 gallons of water to stretch his fins out so to speak, but no filtration, or a smaller tank that has a filter?
Help! I want to steer her in the best direction : (

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im thinking about building a water filtration system for my house but i cant find where to get the ion resin for the system(i think its called Purolite S-930)

anyone have any idea where i can buy this stuff?

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I work at a park, and we have a 1.5 million gallon pond that houses Japanese Koi and goldfish. when the pond was installed the park management opted not to install a filter system, and now 7 years later itd be very difficult ( and more expensive ) to retrofit some mechanical filtration into the pond. what we are looking for is some kind of bio-logical replacement. we had catfish but either they died or are just in effective. at this writing the pond is undergoing a cleaning and will have fresh well water pumped in. I’m thinking maybe some snails,but not sure if the fish will eat all of them ( they’re swimming pigs ) i have also considered some other algae eater fish. temperature in the water usually hovers around 55, and the deepest section of the pond drops to 4 feet so the fish will have somewhere to go to for the occasional cold day. we’re in central Florida, so most fish are available. so any suggestions regarding fish are feasible

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