Regretting marine betta

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Megatrev62

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Nice fish and doing well but I regret the purchase. For a $100.00 he is rarely seen. Keep that in mind folks if you're thinking of getting one.

Thought would be out more once in there awhile. Too bad.
 
Megatrev62 said:
Nice fish and doing well but I regret the purchase. For a $100.00 he is rarely seen. Keep that in mind folks if you're thinking of getting one.

Thought would be out more once in there awhile. Too bad.
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But that's what everyone said in your original thread:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2022053

Mine will poke its head out during feeding and comes out once every couple of months to stretch and that is it. Don't even know if it's alive or not till feeding time.
 
Well, I have one in my 35g with plenty CENTRAL live rock forming a cavern system with connected tunnels and a main overshadowed area.
See the Betta plenty and it is an extreme beauty. It certainly does not need more than a cavernous system he can hang out and hide at will. i thus can confirm advanced aquarists claim that a 30g is sufficient in a kind of species tank.

It gets along extremely well with my other inhabitants - a small stigmatura blenny, spawning pair of centropyge argi, flame hawk and a. guttata goby with shrimp.

Currently very happy with this mixture of differently behaving fish.
The betta is the mysterious centerpiece, very elegantly moving and kinda stoic.
The cherubs are extremely active and swim all around the tank, constantly looking for snacks. The goby is..watching and you all know the funny behaviour of the tailspot and the flame hawk. No aggression but for day one (the tailspot being the biggest threat to the others!) after having put in the tailspot and the hawk last.

Keep in mind I bought the betta very small at 3" thereby reducing any risks for him taking smaller fish. I also have a cleaner shrimp with no problems with the hawk or the betta. Of course there is no guarantee to that.
 
from what my LFS told me, a very reliable source and the biggest coral trader in this part of Germany, even hesitant to advertise that he is selling fish - he wants to reduce influx of ignorant customers- , and seeing how little mine is interested in the "small" cherubs and/or the blenny, I would assume that the safety median is probably at or around 2cm (so still well below 1"). Steve, do you think that is right?
 
hyperge said:
from what my LFS told me, a very reliable source and the biggest coral trader in this part of Germany, even hesitant to advertise that he is selling fish - he wants to reduce influx of ignorant customers- , and seeing how little mine is interested in the "small" cherubs and/or the blenny, I would assume that the safety median is probably at or around 2cm (so still well below 1"). Steve, do you think that is right?
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It is very difficult to establish a threshold. I would be more concerned about neon gobies and fish such as clown gobies. I would not be concerned about dwarf angels or blennies with this particular fish. There are other "reef" fish that have similar concerns such as cardinal fish.
 
I'm going to open the rock work up a bit and see if this may help. Just kinda getting used to outside movement in the room too I Suppose.
 
It also seems that at least ours is quite curious. He even is doing some kind of "flashing" once a couple of days where he swims quickly to the glass, aligns parallel to the surface, and spreads its fins in quick succession to show that he/she is there (and possibly ready for some food). Not a mirror thing, but interaction with the world outside (me). Apart from that the betta often pokes its head out from under the rock plate and looks what I do when I am close to the tank...

But I can easily imagine how difficult it is in larger tanks to see much of this fish.
 
How long have you had yours? For the first week we had our, we never saw him at all. We have had him ~5 months now, and I see him at least a couple times a day even in our over-extensive rock work. When I say see, I should qualify it though. I often stand in front of the tank looking around (150 gallon) and find the little lurker hanging out under an overhang or catch a glimpse of his polka-dotted side. We usually see the whole fish at dinner time though.

I hope yours ends up being a little less secretive, but for ours, he is my favorite fish in the tank.
 
Gulp! Just realized that I have not seen my Arabian Pseudochromis in a couple of days. I hope my Betta did not indulge in a small but really stunning snack!
 
Had mine for quite a few months, in with a bonded pair of black and white clowns plus matted file fish. Great fish that comes sailing out of it's cave at food time. It's about 5-6' and out quite a bit now that it's used to me :)
 
Mine has never touched another fish even though some were barely 1".
He was very shy for the first few months but now makes a few laps around the tank every day to check things out. That and he will come out to eat when i start feeding shrimp pellets.

One of my favorite fish in my tank.
 
sagecx said:
Mine has never touched another fish even though some were barely 1".
He was very shy for the first few months but now makes a few laps around the tank every day to check things out. That and he will come out to eat when i start feeding shrimp pellets.

One of my favorite fish in my tank.
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Same with me - mine hid in the beginning, have had him for a couple of months and he is out frequently, swimming the length of the tank. How long have you had yours?
 
Mine has been with me for a year so far and they are very hardy his original tank crashed when the heater got stuck on and heated the water to 96 degrees! He survived fine and now lives in my peacefull reef tank and seems to do great.
 
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