water temperature for betta fish
What temperature is good for Betta Fish water?

I just got a betta fish ( I named it Swimmie). I have it’s home and I have the water conditionor. I used bottled water that was already room temperature and then I added about 1 cup of cold water from my Brita because I ran out of bottle water. Its been about 12 hours and I haven’t put swimmie in it’s home yet because the water is cold to my touch. Do they like cold or warm water?

They are a warm water fish and need temps 78-82.

water temperature for betta fish

How to Take Care of a Betta Fish – The Essentials For a Betta Fish Owner

Owning a Betta is a great joy to any pet enthusiast, they flit about, respond to their owner coming in the room, and can easily be trained to eat food off of the tip of your finger. The only problem is that they’re just as delicate as they are fun to own. Below I’ve put together some essential “how to take care of a Betta fish” tips and even given you some questions to help determine if you’ve got all the knowledge you need to own a thriving Betta!

Tank Size: It is important to know that Bettas come from the vast rice paddy expanses of eastern Asia. Because of this, they are used to lots of space and are always happier when able to move around. An idea size ranged for a Betta fish tank is 5 to 10 gallons. My Betta is always very active in his ten gallon tank and always has a place to go whether he wants to explore, hide, or just get some exercise in!

Temperature: The perfect temperature for Betta fish is highly debated but anything in the range of 76 to 86 degrees Fahrenheit will work great. I keep my tank at about 82 to 83 and haven’t had any complications. The most important thing to remember about a Betta’s water temperature is that it should stay constant, so if you have a tank maintained at 82 degrees, keep it there. Rapid fluctuations in temperature are stressful to Bettas and can be detrimental to their health.

Feeding: Feeding Betta fish is another subjective debate in the pet owner world. While opinions from every direction can be confusing, I can offer you what has worked well for my fish. I choose to use pellet food because it is easy to measure food intake in pellets (overfeeding is then #2 killer of bettas, second to poor water quality), and it contains a full blend of nutrients. Live foods have a hard time delivering a well balanced diet and flakes are tough to measure out consistently, for these reasons I feed mine pellets. I like to do smaller meals twice per day, two pellets when I wake up, two before I go to bed.

Questions for every Betta fish owner from Betta Care Made Easy. Do you know…

-How to maintain proper water conditions?
-When and when not to use a filter?
-How to correctly setup a Betta tank and the 5-part checklist?
-What to do if your Betta won’t eat?
-How to care for Betta fish that are ill, and how to diagnose and cure every Betta sickness?
-The step by step surefire instructions for breeding bettas?
-About heaters and thermometers and how to get your temperature right?
-Why the wrong type of lighting can kill your Betta?

Everything you need to know at http://BettaCareMadeEasy.info.

Originally published at How To Take Care of a Betta Fish

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If I put a couple tropical fish in my Betta’s tank, would I have to lower the water temperature?

I want to get a couple tropical fish for my Betta’s tank, and I’m not sure if I would have to lower the water temperature…

Look, almost any fish that’s small enough to fit in a 5 gallon tank with a betta and another small fish and not outgrow it is actually a schooler that’s happiest in groups. When stocking a tank, you need to think not only about the size of the fish, but its behavior. You’re thinking about temperature and size, and that’s great, but there are other factors – are they aggressive? Do they prefer to live in groups? If so, does it matter what gender the fishes in the group are? So on and so forth. If you break the “rules” of what makes a fish of a certain species comfortable, that’s when things go wrong – maybe the fish just never acts very interesting, maybe it gets sick and dies, or maybe it goes on a rampage and attacks your other fish. It’s just bad news all around.

In the source, I’m linking you to an FAQ of possible betta tankmates. A couple I would suggest at that tank size:
- Two African dwarf frogs, if you’re willing to give them the frozen food
- One apple snail, IF your water has the right gH and kH values (that’s general and carbonate hardness; you’ll have to get a kit).
- Nothing at all (what I do). Just have lots of fun playing with your betta! Seriously, I never get bored with the little dudes. I revamp their tanks all the time and switch around their food lots. There’s always something new they’re doing.

Happy research!

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