What is the best way to humanely raise a Male Betta Fish?
There isn’t One True Way of betta keeping. There are choices to make and benefits and drawbacks to each choice. Here is a great discussion about those choices: http://www.bettatalk.com/housing.htm The choices include individual container (no filter), filtered small tank, betta “barracks” systems where the fish are on a single water source, and divided tanks systems. All have benefits, all have drawbacks. The industry standard is gallon square jars that are changed frequently– as much as daily up to 1x/week. As an example of one way to do it, here is the fish room of one of the best betta breeders in the world, Phil Lafferty. He keeps his bettas in quarts and beanie baby containers (half gals), but does frequent water changes: http://www.bettacave.com/fishroomindex.h… Here’s another excellent set up, using gallon squares,
