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Originally Posted by Nevada77
I just want to say that I have been basically following the advice of the petstore and my betta is doing great! I change the water abot every 3 weeks. As long as I feed him the pellets (not flakes) and only a few at a time 4 or 5 times a day the water stays very clear. I was also told that bettas live in rice patties and the water there is not very clean and clear.
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well you haven't had him very long have you.
did they give you the logic behind how water is different in the winter than it is in the summer??
Rice patties are huge. They grow RICE in them (go figure). They are not very deep but they are like fields. You should do some research. Bettas do tolerate less oxygen in the water than other fish, but just because you COULD survive in a vented closet, doesn't mean you'd enjoy life in there. These fish have supplementary air breathing as an evolutionary adaptation for drought... and drought doesn't happen all of the time (there is also a flood season where there is PLENTY of water.) Anyway, you don't really seem too open to my advice, and there are millions of bettas out there living short, unhappy little lives, so what can I do?