I know im askin alot of questions but please help with watever you can on bettas, african dwarf frogs, snails?

Question

1. tell me everything you know about bettas ANYTHING YOU KNOW!

2. tell me everything you know about african dwarf frogs ANYTHING!

3. tell me everything you know about snails, what kind is prettiest which one do you recomend? and agasin tell me EVERYTHING you know about them!

ok so say you are looking at this question and say i know about bettas and snails but dont know anything about african dwarf frogs...you can just skip it...and so on with everything else! thanks in advance! PS i have done research but want to know some more and just wondering kinda but i need help thanks!

Answer 1

ok lets start with bettas it is a myth that they are this great terror of the fish tank and will kill any other fish they just have a bad attitude towards their own kind the best site I have found for them is

www.bettatalk.com

I don't know much about the frog since they wouldn't last in my tanks my fish would eat them

snails stay away from pond snails like rams horns or nirtile s as they will reproduce and over run the tank

there are several types of apple snails that would do fine fo most people you have the yellow mystery,and blue mystery that get about the size of a quarter

then the one I know of by the name apple snail that gets the size of a baseball

the nice thing about the apple snails is in order to reproduce the eggs have to be laid out of the water in tanks they try to get by the light with most tank hoods this isn't possiable so they don't tend to reproduce

but if they do they are large enough to easly pick out the excess to control them or just tear the egg clutches off from where they were laid

Answer 2

Ok this may be a long post but I will try to keep it as short as possible.

1. Bettas are very colorful and pretty tropical fish. They also have huge personalities and have kinda gotten a bad rep for being highly aggressive (unfounded unfourtunately). Although you cannot put more than one male in the same tank, you can keep more than 5 (I do not recommend less) females in a tank the size of 10 gallons or bigger. Males usually have longer fins and female shorter fins although this is not always the case it is a pretty good standard to use when trying to s*x them. Females are also generally smaller than males. Bettas need at least 2.5 gallons of water that is heated and filtered. They are good community fish most the time although they should never be mixed with guppys or dwarf gouramis because they have been known to mistake these fish for other bettas and attack. If interested in breeding bettas it can be a difficult task I don't really recommend this until you have some more experience. Anyways you can only mix a male and female betta together when they are ready to mate. You can tell when the female is ready to mate because most of the time vertical bars appear on her body. The male will then build a bubble nest, males will also do this when they are alone and happy with their living conditions, only then can you put the male and female together. As soon as they are done mating you must separate them again. Bettas are carnivores and to be the healthiest they will need a varied diet of flake food or betta pellets, frozen, dried, or live brine shrimp and blood worms.  Also for their habitat they love plants either fake (silk) or real and some type of decor they can investigate as they tend to be quite nosey. Bettas are also not very skittish fish they are the only fish that I know of that when you stick your hand/net in the tank will not swim as fast as they can aways from it. I have even had one that would either swim into my net every time or swim right up so he was touching my hand when they are in the tank.

2. African Dwarf Frogs are cute little additions to any tanks. They are very sociable creatures. They need at least 2 gallons a piece. Although 1 African Dwarf Frog should never be put in anything less than a 5 gallon aquarium. These frogs only belong in tropical fish tanks and also need filtered and heated water. They also need tons of places to hide as they can be quite shy. African Dwarf Frogs are fully aquatic and don't need any dry land. The biggest mistake is that most people in the stores actually end up buying the wrong frog. There are two types of frogs sold in pet stores one is the African Clawed Frog these are the little white ones, these guys get huge have big appetites and can get pretty aggressive as they get bigger. African Dwarf Frogs are darker they will stay small are shy and peaceful creatures. The other way to tell them apart besides their colors is that an African Dwarf Frog will have all 4 webbed feet where as African Clawed Frogs will have 2 clawed feet and 2 webbed feet. ADF are carnivores and need to be feed frozen, live, or dried shrimp and bloodworms they will NOT eat flakes. When feeding what I recommend is using a turkey baster and putting the food inside then putting it right by the frog and letting the food out. ADF are close to blind by nature so therefore having a difficult time finding food and must be pretty much given their food. The cool thing is you can have them get used to taking food right out of your own hand.

3. I don't know as much about snails as the other two. Personally I find snails to be the best algae eating creatures for a tank as long as their are not live plants. I don't recommend getting more than 1 because it is easy to get a snail problem in your tank when they breed. Mystery snail get to be about the size as a golf ball and apple snails about the size of a baseball. I personally find the black mystery snail to be the prettiest. They have a light blueish color shell and are fully black in color. When snails grow their shells grow with them. Also, if there is a lack of algae in your tank they should be fed algae tabs to make sure they are getting enough food. They are also omnivores and their diet should be supplemented with shrimp bottom feeder tabs or pellets every once in a while.

These fish can coincide together wonderfully. I personally have a 10 gallon tank with a betta, gold mystery snail, and 2 ADF, and 2 Otos to help with the algae the snail couldn't reach. However with ADF extra care needs to be given to make sure they are getting food such as feeding them using your turkey baster or your hand. This is actually a really good set up for all 3 of these creatures if you would like to have all 3 but you would definately need a 10 gallon tank.

Good Luck!

Answer 3

Bettas are very hardy, and don't need to be in an established tank. They will eat flake food or betta food. Males will fight and kill other males though. I don't know anything about the females. Bettas can jump, so if you're keeping it in an open tank or bowl, don't fill the water too high. I've lost one this way. On the plus side, bettas are laberynth fish (They can breath air with lungs) so they can last quite a while out of the water, just so long as they don't dry out and they do get back in water eventually.

African dwarf frogs don't need an established tank either. They like to live in groups and are quite smart for their size. They eat flake food and frog food. They shed their skin, but are generally very clean creatures. They can breath outside of water, but are the one frog that lives its life completely in water (not on land). They should be kept in complete water, no land. They need to be able to get to the surface to breath because they have no gills.

They like to float at the top, so if you think it is dead, poke it and it should start swimming. They sort of play dead a lot of times. Be sure that they are eating though! If they aren't happy they will starve themselves. A good way around this--or to get them to start eating--is with bloodworms. African Dwarf Frogs LOVE bloodworms.

Snails I don't know a whole lot about. I know that pond snails are asexual, so they don't have to have a partner to reproduce, but I don't know if it's the same with larger snails, say mystery snails. Snails will eat plants though. This is good for algae, but bad if you have fragile live plants. I suggest getting algae pellets for them to eat on, or just drop some lettuce in there tied onto wood or rock. Blanch (boil) the lettuce though, so that no chemicals or disease get into the tank.