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How much aeration needed?
Koi-lo wrote: "Tynk" wrote in message ups.com... Koi-lo wrote: "Shorty" wrote in message oups.com... Pearling means bubbles of gas sitting on the surface of the plant. In this case, it refers to a situation when the water is saturated with oxygen and the additional oxygen produced by the plants does not dissolve in the water anymore. Then, you can see the bubbles of oxygen sitting on the plant. But if you get this in the first two days of water change, this is more likely to be all the gas dissolved in your tap water. I'm not an expert at this so correct me if I'm wrong. ========================= I believe you are correct. The plants pearl on sunny days in my betta tanks on a sunny windowsill. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy Troll Information: http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o ========================= I believe you are correct. The plants pearl on sunny days in my betta tanks on a sunny windowsill. Tanks??? You have them in tiny little bowls. Those are not tanks. ====================== Check my new aquarium webpage. BTW do you keep your bettas with gravel and plants? My bettas have always had gravel and plants. It's cruel to keep them any other way as I'm sure you agree. How do you make sure everyone who buys your bettas provides them with live plants and gravel? -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/h/shastadaisy Troll Information: http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o How do you make sure everyone who buys your bettas provides them with live plants and gravel? Sorry, I forgot you had asked this question..I was so excited about your boy's larger housing that I totally forgot you asked about this. When I gave to people, they were either neighbors, friends, etc andf I hardly ever charged them. However, word of mouth people that came to buy I charged a very nomimal fee and it was usually less than what the current price at the shops were. I would ask them about what size tank they would be going into, as well as explain the proper care if they didn't already know. When I was breeding with regularity (yrs ago), it wasn't like it is now. Bettas were given proper care and kept in tanks with common community fish. People hardly ever kept them in small bowls. Of course some did. However, it really wasn't the norm, nor were they even near as popular. Not even close! NetMax probably remembers this, as well as other old time hobbyists who have been in the hobby as long or longer than I have. ( since the 1970's). If somebody were to tell me that they wanted to keep it in a little bowl I would simply deny them the fish. Plain and simple. Folks who didn't already know the proper care were educated. Heck..back then I the smallest tank I can remember there being were the AllGlass 2 1/2 gallon ones. Not sure on if they were out in the 70's, as I used 5g's back then for tiny tanks. How about anyone else...I can't remember. Back then people didn't have these tiny tanks to choose from or those horrible contaptions they're selling for Bettas these days. Those clear plastic things that have an area that's almost a V shape in the middle for the Betta to be housed in. It holds like a couple/few ounces of water. These things are horribly cruel. I even stopped going to one of the local shops because he started selling these things. He got all excited when I walked in one day and couldn't wait to show me these new Betta "tanks". I did one of these faces...= O I said..I can't believe you are selling such cruel things and walked out. He knew better too. He's a local shop trying to compete with the chains around him and I'm sorry, but he could have done better than that. There's many 1g set ups with even a light that he could have sold for less money than he was selling these torture chambers for. I will say some of these things are getting a little better. Some have gotten to be a gallon or more and have these mini power filters and some even have mini fluorescent lights above them. Those are ok in a constantly warm house or for somebody in a warm climate. (when talking Bettas that is) But a couple/few ounces of water? Horrible. |
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