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This
fish bowl kit has one Blue Male
Betta, live plants, and some gravel.
Accessorize your bowl with silk plants
around your bowl (not inside the bowl),
and put it on a piece of marble or tile.
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Click
here now to buy a Fish Bowl Kit from us.
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This Fish Bowl Kit includes a 1.5-gallon plastic
bowl with a plastic cover, your choice of one
Male
Betta or one
Female Betta (your choice), one
Live Aquatic Plants, a 3" Fish Net, and the
correct amount of cultured
gravel. You'll need to get some fish food as
listed below in the paragraph titled Recommended
Diet. This Fish Bowl Kit
is a very good item for children, senior citizen,
shut-ins, and everybody else! Click
here for more information about fish for kids.
It is also a beautiful
center piece for decorating and Feng Shui. Click
here for more about Feng Shui.
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Note: for many years
we sold this kit with two Aquatic Snails,
but under
current Federal Law it is not legal
to ship snails across state borders
without a special federal permit for
each state. The cost of the permits
is so high that it precludes shipping
snails. So we do cannot ship snails
at this time, and we do not include
them in this kit, but we still recommend
snails, and encourage you to find them
in your local fish stores. |
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Click
here to listen to a Special Show
titled "Fish Bowls", an MP3 PodCast, hosted
by the Bailey Brothers on Pet Fish Talk.
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Appropriate
Home
This item includes a 1.5 gallon bowl. Click
here for more about fish bowls. Keep
this bowl away from sources of hot and cold air
such as heaters, heater vents, cold or sunny windows,
drafts, air conditioner vents, etc. It's is important
that this bowl be kept cool at about 65 to 75 degrees
F. Put it in a place away from extremes of hot and
cold.
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Recommended Diet
BettaMin™ Floating Flake Food and Tetra™ Freeze
Dried Blood Worms both made by Tetra™ and available
in most stores that sell pet fish. We also feed
the fish in our fish bowls a few live Black Worms
three days a week and occasionally some live or
frozen brine shrimp. A little bit of live food is
very good, but too much seems to cause problems.
Click
here for more about feeding fish. I feed
all the inhabitants of my fish bowls a few Black
Worms every other day. Click
here for more about Black Worms.
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Compatibility
You can add an
African Dwarf Frog, but it will need to eat
live food such as live Black Worms at least three
times a week. Click
here for more about Black Worms. Click
here to read more about several other groups
of compatible fish.
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Why Does This Fish
Bowl Kit Work?
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Several
visitors to this site have sent us comments, saying
that they were worried that one Betta are too many
animals in one bowl. We appreciate their concern
for these animals, and it might seem like too many
animals. But the crucial test is to actually try
it, and we have tried it many many times. It works.
Why?
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1.5 gallons is 6 quarts and that's a pretty
big fish bowl. We might put one Betta in a half
gallon bowl but 1.5 gallons is much better.
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Notice we recommend putting the bowl in a cool
part of your home where the water is 65 to 75
degrees F. not 78 to 80. The lower temperature
allows more oxygen in the water and less fish
waste because the animals' metabolism is slower.
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The cultured gravel provides a lot of surface
area that is covered with the essential nitrifying
bacteria that turn fish waste into harmless
residue. |
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We recommend that you change 20% of the water
at least twice a week and replace it with bottled
drinking water. Click
here for more about changing water in fish
bowls. |
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We recommend that you feed floating pellet food
that's labeled for Betta Fish plus freeze dried
blood worms, because these foods float and leave
less residue after being digested than most
foods. |
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We strongly recommend you check your fish bowl
10 minutes after each feeding. If there is any
uneaten food, remove it with a small net. Click
here for more about feeding your fish.
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These animals are adults and have low metabolic
rates. Why is that important? Because they'll
metabolize less food, so they'll eat less food,
so they'll produce less waste, the water will
stay clean, and they'll remain healthy.
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We know that one small goldfish will not
do well in a fish bowl, so we don't recommend putting
goldfish in bowls. It took us a long time to find
the unique combination of this large bowl with the
right amount of cultured gravel, food, and animals
that fit together and do very well together.
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This
isn't just a "first thing I thought of" combination
that might work. It's the pieces of a puzzle that
finally fitted together to produce a combination
that does work. Click
here for more about keeping fish in bowls.
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Cautionary Comments
A couple of good folks have sent comments saying
that they took this plan for this kit, then went
out and "bought all the parts and put it together,
but it doesn't seem to be working." We checked and
found out they had gravel but not cultured gravel,
or they couldn't find any Aquatic Snails.
The
cultured gravel and the Aquatic Snails are essential,
and this combination doesn't work well without them.
We'll be glad to ship you the cultured gravel and
the Aquatic Snails, or the entire kit, and anything
else you need. But please for sake of the animals
do the entire plan, or it may not work.
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Size
and Lifespan
Most of these animals can live for 2 to 3 years
in this fish bowl.
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