Recent content by Kimi Kwon

Bettas, in the wild, eat insect larvae... basically blood worms. They're carnivores and won't eat plants unless driven by starvation. They also eat shrimp. In your aquarium, however, I suggest betta pellets. I find that flakes are messy and not as good as pellets... just IMO though :)

I established a 2.5 gallon aquarium with a heater for my girl betta. She was formerly bossed around by other female bettas so I decided to rescue her (she has no damage done). Since I put her in the 2.5 gallon tank, all she's been doing is hanging around the heater and hiding in the plants. She...

If you want to stick with tetras, that'd be fine. :) Make sure to NOT get a pleco or catfish as your bottom feeder/algae eater! As for other tank mate species, tetras do well with: -platies -guppies -mollies -danios Tropical fish like these. The "basic rule" is 1 inch of fish per gallon. For...

Plecos for a 10 gallon, even 20 gallon tank is unreasonable. There are tiny sucker fish sold at petstores that you'll want to buy. Plecos grow to 2 feet long and do best in 80+ gallons :] Even with the sucker fish, you'll have to clean the water. If you get a siphon, remove 25% of the water...

Okay so I love it how everyone is automatically saying you got a pleco... I had two sucker fish as well and they were teenie little ones, which are the ones I'm guessing you have. My fish also died when I put them in. My guess is that they started eating all of the helpful bacteria and what not...