Keeping fishes in a room?

• Time wrote on 2010-08-19 03:28

  Quote from Paul;130209:

  Ah, Betta fishies... Use to have a bunch, constantly buying them after the other died because we kept making them fight each other... They're pretty easy to take care of. Look for a nice color one if you get one. :D
  
  The last fishes we had... killed each other... I guess we shouldn't have tried keeping those Piranhas.

  
  Uh.....
  
  

  Quote from Yogurticecream;130463:

  I think I'll go for a beta fish, thanks.

  
  Cool, if you have any questions remember to ask them here!
• Tatsu wrote on 2010-08-19 04:11
  It's called Betta Fighting.
  
  Our bettas never lasted long for some reason. Hell, we bought another male one abotu 2-3 weeks ago. It was murdered by a group of fish.
  
  We did have a neon tetra that lasted for years and finally died few months back.
• Kraken wrote on 2010-08-19 04:20
  OK. This thread has some major problems. Initially I ignored them in the name of keeping peace, but damn it, I won't let it go on.
  
  Why are so many of you recommending a fishbowl? Fishbowls are cruel because they are hardly capable of the filtration required for a fish. They can hardly be cleaned, and what goes in the substrate stays in the substrate, impacting the health of the fish. If you decide to put your fish in a fishbowl, expect yourself to become one of those imbeciles who sees fish as "replaceable" and buys a new fish every month because your old one died of ich/air bladder disease/parasites/etc. due to the horrible conditions of a fishbowl.
  
  Damn it, check out sites like this before choosing to abuse an animal.
• Time wrote on 2010-08-19 04:28

  Quote from Kraken;130538:

  OK. This thread has some major problems. Initially I ignored them in the name of keeping peace, but damn it, I won't let it go on.
  
  Why are so many of you recommending a fishbowl? Fishbowls are cruel because they are hardly capable of the filtration required for a fish. They can hardly be cleaned, and what goes in the substrate stays in the substrate, impacting the health of the fish. If you decide to put your fish in a fishbowl, expect yourself to become one of those imbeciles who sees fish as "replaceable" and buys a new fish every month because your old one died of ich/air bladder disease/parasites/etc. due to the horrible conditions of a fishbowl.
  
  Damn it, check out sites like this before choosing to abuse an animal.

  
  Um, when did someone mention a fishbowl?
  
  In fact, the only size tank that was mentioned when you were" initially ignoring them to keep the peace" was by Sin and I, Sin said that they dont need big tanks, which is true, one fish=not very large tank? I said I kept it in a vase thing with a plant (which now that I looked up, is called a betta fish vase) it can be cleaned with a sink...Very well to, its just like washing something that you would eat off of, you do it carefully, and the substrate can also be cleaned very well, heres a picture of what im talking about, although mine was a bit larger

  [Image: http://www.bettatalk.com/images/betta_in_a_vase.jpg]

  and I checked my first fish lived for 5 years in that...
• Kraken wrote on 2010-08-19 04:39

  Quote from Timexpo;130543:

  Um, when did someone mention a fishbowl?

  
  
  

  Quote from Sevian;130207:

  you don't need to stir the water or anything IMPLIED NON-TANK SETUP

  
  
  

  Quote from Timexpo;129455:

  I had mine in a big vase with a plant in it...They ate the plant roots or something...

  
  
  

  Quote from Sin;129453:

  They don't even need a big tank, small containers are perfect for them.

  
  
  Trust me. As a person who has experience keeping fish, a setup that isn't in a tank does not work.
  
  This is somewhat what an on-the-cheap fish enclosure should look like.

  [Image: http://www.fishlore.com/YourTanks/zubair-fishtank.jpg]
• Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-08-19 05:57
  I have a small plastic tank. Probably not as big as the one shown above but it's rectangular.
  
  Someone I know used to keep fishes in a bowl but as Kraken says the fishes died eventually in one year, so I'm not doing that.
• Time wrote on 2010-08-19 15:15
  But....As I just said, I have had a fish live for 5 years in the vase, another one for 4 years, and my sister had one for 4 years as well, it works fine, you just have to clean it when the water looks a bit less then clear...But whatever...