So I got bubble a new tank. I wanted to get him a nice 2-5 gallon tank, one that had a filter so his water would be nice. However, when I went to get him a tank I found that the 10 gallon was the same price as one 5 gallon tank and cheaper than the other one... so he now has a private 10 gallon tank. Mostly private, I put all of the snails in there in hopes of them not dieing because the water quality was so bad(like it was in their tiny tanks). I am hoping the snails will breed although Bubble doesn't seem to like the snails so I don't know if he will let them. He can't seem to hurt the big ones, but he picks up the little ones and spits them back out, and if he really wanted them to not breed he could eat the eggs.
He really likes the space, he is constantly swimming around. He loves the barrels and swims through them a lot, I think he would really enjoy the ship, so I might put that in there for him. This tank is a bit taller, so it would fit better. I swapped the filters, the new one on the puffer tank and the old one on this tank, but they are both too powerful. Bubble is a pretty bad swimmer(like most bettas) so even a small current can be too much. I put the less powerful puffer filter in his tank but it was still too much so I put a bit of rag around the intake and its just right now. The new filter is too powerful for the puffer tank so I had to do the same to it, but its too weak now. I think I will swap them back and then just put a little more cloth on the new filter.
Can you tell the difference between a dwarf puffer and a female betta? Well, it doesn't seem Bubble can. He gets really excited whenever he can see the puffers and has decided that he should start building a bubble nest. Before I put him in the new tank his nest had grown quite a bit. The puffers were excited by him at first but after figuring out that they couldn't get to him they lost interest.
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