Betta caresheet for fish stores

HI guys. This one's to all betta owners out there.

I made a sheet with all my newbies mistakes, and started documenting other people's mistakes too, with the hope that newbies could learn through our collective bad experiences. I put it alll under: . Tan saw that and decided to print it out and give it to people she gives her fry to. Now this is my idea: wouldn't it be good for all you betta owners to put together something similar (including information dispelling the myth of the tiny mudpools pleeeease), and to give a pile of them to your local petstores to give when they give when they sell a betta?

We could get really ambitious and start preparing these sheets for other very species requiring very specific care, but I was thinking perhaps let's start with bettas.

If the format is well presented, am sure most of the stores wouldn't mind. On the contrary, you'd be doing them (and the bettas) a favor.

What do you say?

 

That is SUCH a great idea!!! The people at stores give people misinformation about Bettas and the caresheets there give the whole dirty puddle story. So it's no wonder most people think Bettas should be kept in bowls. Maybe if we started giving stores care sheets with correct information people would read them and actually give their Bettas proper care. If any stores object, we just remind them that 5 gal tanks cost a lot more than half gal bowls. ;D

If we want to make this easy, we could start by having someone paraphrase Rose's Betta care guide. Then we could add any other little details, things like common diseases and how to treat them, and common beginner mistakes.

 

That is SUCH a great idea!!!  The people at stores give people misinformation about Bettas and the caresheets there give the whole dirty puddle story.  So it's no wonder most people think Bettas should be kept in bowls.  Maybe if we started giving stores care sheets with correct information people would read them and actually give their Bettas proper care.  If any stores object, we just remind them that 5 gal tanks cost a lot more than half gal bowls.    ;D

If we want to make this easy, we could start by having someone paraphrase Rose's Betta care guide.  Then we could add any other little details, things like common diseases and how to treat them, and common beginner mistakes.

armadillo have you ever hada betta you should get one you seem to be very into them!

 

I want one so much it hurts! We're going on holiday and cycling a couple of tanks, that's why I have to wait. I'll tell you what, if I write a lot about them now, imagine the sheer volume when I actually do have one!

I've definitely got the huuuugest soft spot for them.

 

I want one so much it hurts! We're going on holiday and cycling a couple of tanks, that's why I have to wait. I'll tell you what, if I write a lot about them now, imagine the sheer volume when I actually do have one! 

I've definitely got the huuuugest soft spot for them.

oic arew you planning on rescueing one or getting one from miamiaquariums.. what is he site fot that anyways do you know cuz I don't think its this..I just like to look at them!

 

Am in Europe, so I guess they won't ship all the way here. I think I'll try to get one for free as my store actually freezes them when they have finrot! I begged him to try to cure him and he promised he would, but just that one... So I'll go by again and if I see a sick one, I'll ask him to give him to me rather than kill him.

 

wow are you serious he freezes them..theyre so easy to cure thou?!

 

Yes. I went to point it out to him so he could cure him, and he just said, naaah, this one's a goner, am going to freeze it.

 

HI guys. This one's to all betta owners out there.

I made a sheet with all my newbies mistakes, and started documenting other people's mistakes too, with the hope that newbies could learn through our collective bad experiences. I put it alll under: . Tan saw that and decided to print it out and give it to people she gives her fry to. Now this is my idea: wouldn't it be good for all you betta owners to put together something similar (including information dispelling the myth of the tiny mudpools pleeeease), and to give a pile of them to your local petstores to give when they give when they sell a betta?

We could get really ambitious and start preparing these sheets for other very species requiring very specific care, but I was thinking perhaps let's start with bettas.

If the format is well presented, am sure most of the stores wouldn't mind. On the contrary, you'd be doing them (and the bettas) a favor.

What do you say?

this is soooo my favorite topic right now. I think it's great idea in theory, but I don't think that most LFS owners/clerks would be very amenable to the suggestion that we might know more about a fish than they do. I have seen staff actually get hostile when I disagree with their opinion, or correct their information.

 

that's stupid to put a fish down for fin rot and it's inhumane to freeze them on top of it.

 

that's stupid to put a fish down for fin rot and it's inhumane to freeze them on top of it.

Ditto! That makes me really mad. I don't get it...the fish could easily be saved, and then they'd make money from selling him! But for goodness sake if you're going to do it, euthanize the poor fish humanely!!

 

Well it's the same old story. The store thinks they're euthanising the fish humanely.

 

I wonder if you could set up an arrangement to "foster" those fish, treating their fin rot and then returning them to the store? Surely the LFS would have no objection to this kind of arrangement, since they could only gain profit this way. Of course, you might get attached to the little guys, and not want to return them ...

 

I wonder if you could set up an arrangement to "foster" those fish, treating their fin rot and then returning them to the store? Surely the LFS would have no objection to this kind of arrangement, since they could only gain profit this way. Of course, you might get attached to the little guys, and not want to return them ...

that's likely to happen.. we have 2 'rescue' bettas that got permanent homes here.