How to Keep a Betta Fish

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Summary: Keeping a Betta fish involves observing its color, condition and behavior every day as well as maintaining a high quality of water. Keep a Betta fish with tips from a pet store owner in this free video on fish care.

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By Michael Mavro
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Mike Mavro is the owner and operator of Orvee’s Pet Center in St. Petersburg, Fla. He has dedicated more than three decades to the care and maintenance, health and wellbeing of fish...read more

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"There's a lot of different types of Betta fish to choose out there, and once you choose the Betta fish that's right for you, we need to figure out how to take care of that Betta fish. Once you set your bowl up, you're going to look at your fish on a daily basis and check your water quality. You can do this when you're feeding your fish. I do recommend a pelleted food. It helps keep your water a little bit cleaner, and you just need to feed him about two or three palates a day. Over feeding can cause your Betta fish to become bloated, and it can mess up the water quality itself. So, it could be two days or every four or five days that the bowl needs to be cleaned. Again, we're going to check it visually and decide if it needs to be done. And when that is done, what I do; is I simply take my Betta fish, and I pour everything into another container. I, then, take the bowl itself and clean it out and as long as I'm maintaining it on a regular basis, I never have to use soap or any other chemicals. So, once my bowl's clean, I fill it back up with water. I use a chemical to treat that water so it is safe for my Betta fish, and you simply need to follow the directions. Once, the bowl has been sitting there for a couple of hours, we should be about the same temperature. So, your fish is going to acclimate easily to his new container. I take the net. I fish my Betta out of the container he was in and simply put him back in. Now he's back there. You can enjoy him. You can give him a good talk. My name is Michael and we've been talking about how to maintain your Betta fish."

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