If you want to get a male fighting fish it is best to have them in a small tank alone because they are quite aggressive and can kill or harm other fish, even their own kind.
Females can sometimes be kept together in groups of four or more, although it is best to only do this once you get to know your fighting fish a bit better and understand their temperaments.

Before you get your fish clean out their tank/bowl (It is best not to use any chemicals because they can toxicate the water). Fill the tank/bowl with fresh rain water, as in some towns the tap water contains many harmful chemicals for a fish. It is good to add a few drops (following the directions on the bottle) of water treatment, to neutralize the chemicals in the water and make sure that it is well balanced for your fish. You can buy water treatment (sometimes known as conditioner) from your local pet store (the one you got the fish from).


Fighting Fish are quite intelligent, and, just like humans, can get bored easily. A few tank decorations are perfect for keeping your fighting fish happy and occupied. Here are some ideas for decorating the tank:
- Make an interesting backdrop for the tank, to brighten it up. You could make a collage with cutouts from magazines, or just draw a scene for the background.
- Fighting Fish will love a few plants, as they are great for hiding in and make the tank a lot more interesting.
- Putting pebbles on the bottom of the tank is a good idea because they will hide all of the dirt, waste, and unwanted food for a while!
- Believe it or not, Fighting Fish enjoy toys, such as a ping pong ball that will float on the surface and that they can push around with their noses.
- Fighting fish also love bright colours and shiny objects to explore. What I have done with my Betta is wrap marbles in the colourful, shiny Easter egg wrappers, and my fish loves it!
- A few interesting shells or non harmful objects can make your tank look great and captivate the attention of your Fighting fish for years!
If you live in a particularly cold place, it is a good idea to set your tank up with a heater, because during the cold weather the fish will become very inactive and perhaps sick with the cold water.



Bettas can live in small bowls, but you need to do several things. 1) In anything less than 5 gallons, they will require 25% daily water changes and 100% every week. This is to keep ammonia levels down. Bettas constantly release their waste into the water as ammonia, which can kill them and burn their fins away. It takes a little more than a day for ammonia to reach a dangerous level in a 1 gallon, so please keep up with daily water changes. 2) Bettas are tropical fish and need a constant temperature between 76-82* F. you NEED to buy a water heater, or your fish will become lathargic, more prone to disease, and die. Bettas are very hardy fish and can live for upwards of a year in cold water with dangerously high ammonia levels, but can live for 3-5 years if you are willing to spend the $17 dollars for a preset heater at Wal-mart (unless you go with a bigger tank, then invest in an adjustable heater from a pet store) and take 5 minutes out of your day to change his water so its not poisoning him. Please see bettafish.com for more info on proper care for betta fish.

Feeding: I give my betta food named betta bites, they are good for the fish and he seems to like them. Sometimes bettas get picky about food and so was mine at first but then they get used to it. Some bettas will eat fish flakes, but the pellets made especially for the betta are the best for them and they also revive the colour in the betta. If your fish doesn't eat them at all try a different food. You can give them 2-3 pellets for starting, then you can go up to four pellets when your fish gets a little older and you can feed him twice a day.

How to feed them: You put your finger at the top of the bowl and when the fish comes to your finger drop the pellet and he eats it. Make sure not to feed the fish right away because you want them to swallow it, right? That's about it for this part and here is a thing you need to be cautious about when you clean the bowl.

Sub-tropical and coldwater fish can live without heaters BUT you must note that just because a tank doesn't have a heater in it, doesn't mean it's coldwater! To have a true cold tank you need to install a chiller, which is far more expensive to buy and run than a measly heater!

Fish from all temperature ranges will be stressed out by temperature fluctuations (such as you having the heating blazing during the winter, and air conditioning during the summer!).

What fish you can keep also depends on your tank size. Goldfish are the most common coldwater fish, they also need very large over-filtered tanks. Smaller fish like White Cloud Mountain Minnows and Zebra Danios need to be in shoals in at least 15-20 gallons or more.

Research fish species very carefully!

no, goldfish are however multicellular organisms

Could be water quality, temperature, or he could just be constipated. Could be close to death, you can still save him/her though.

good luck!

There are currently 28 recognised Betta species.

no it does not .

yooh feel nothing .

Goldfish have teeth, but not in the way that you expect them; they are called pharyngeal teeth which are near the throat

On average, 4 to 5 years is fairly common. One thing to remember is that when you buy your betta fish, particularly the males (with the pretty fins), they are usually about 2 years old already when you buy them.
The average life span for a beta fish to live is 1-2 years. Or in some cases it can live from 5 to 10 years!
for a year or more depending how to take care of them

Betta fish to not hibernate. If you fish is acting lethargic, make sure that the water is not too cold (78 to 80F is best), and that the water is clean.

It could be because he/she has over-eaten or because he/she has dropsy. If only the "chest" is swollen, he/she has probably eaten too much. Don't feed him/her for a day or two, or give him/her a small piece of a pea (put a frozen pea in a little water and microwave for 10-15 seconds, then cool it down and cut it up, no skin). Start feeding him/her a little less at meal times.

If the whole fish is swollen, and the scales are sticking out (a little like a pinecone), it is dropsy. Dropsy can be caused by many things, including bacteria. If it is bacterial, it can be treated. Go to the pet store and look for fish medication. Good ones to look for are Maracyn or Maracyn-Two, but they are not the only medicines out there. Read the label of each brand carefully to see what will treat dropsy the best.

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If it's a female, it could simply be that she's gravid (filled with eggs).

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No, this isn't a good idea. The betta might nibble the axolotl's delicate gills, and a big axolotl could swallow a betta, but the most obvious reason why the two are incompatible is that they prefer very different water temperatures. Bettas are tropical fish that require relatively high temperatures of 25-30 degrees Celsius, whereas axolotls prefer their water cooler, around 15 degrees.

Well, no but they are a lot better with them. For your fish, not for show, if you have gold fish, if you don't put a light in they will go silver. This is because of the lack of light.

2 or 3 years. If you are lucky maybe even 4 years, but no more than 5 at the very most.

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Yes. I'm sure the natives in the countries they live in often eat them with rice, soup, and other things.

Other species of the family, gouramis, are definitely used for food.

Yes. It not only provides water circulation and oxygen but houses essential bacteria that keeps your water quality healthy. As soon as it's turned off, that bacteria starts to die. The only time you turn it off is when you're doing you're weekly partial water change.

All water conditioner needs to do is remove the chlorine or chloramine from the tap water. Of course it will be OK for Goldfish.

Most of the time it is for dominant male spot. Fish have a pecking order and that order is every so often tested. The dominant male gets the food, the women and the choice locations. A fight could also occur from any one of those three named above. Territory is also a very big fish fight causer.

They don't actually fight. The male kills the female if she isn't ready to breed when he has access to her and if you leave them in the same tank for too long after they breed. They can only be together for that short time it takes for her to give him the eggs to fertilize and care for.

It means the fish is sick, and most likely will die. It can be any number of things including cancer and bladder infection.

Not in the same way that people 'burp' but they can and do 'gulp' air.