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Aquarium Care of Bettas (Animal Planet Pet Care Library)

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An indispensable resource for recent and veteran betta fanciers, this text does not burden the reader with esoteric details concerning betta genetics and pigmentation, nor is excessive attention paid to the diversity of wild bettas which amateur hobbyists will never see. (Much of this detail is covered in _The Betta Handbook_ by Goldstein.) _Aquarium Care of Bettas_ discusses how to give your betta a good life, simple things like providing him more room to move and breathe in or adding salt to the water or changing the water often, all of which can make a huge difference in quality of life. The text is lively and accessible, with plenty of full-color pictures demonstrating types of Betta splendens. Consultation of this book can be the beginning of an inquiry into whether to provide heat and filtration to a betta tank; research online reveals that so many small heaters can cook the fish. I have consulted my copy several times already and will continue to do so.

I bought this book and have read it cover to cover. I thought I knew how to maintain a tank and feeding for a betta until I read this book. It uncovers all the myths that surround betta care even in the pet shops!!!
Excellent for anyone thinking of buying a Betta! They need more than just a bowl to survive. Bettas also need a mini heater, mini filter, and at least a 1 gallon tank per Betta!!!

This book is extremely helpful; with honest advice and clear, concise explanations.

I bought this book for my Mom, she has a new male Betta. We learned so much and the pictures are colorful. We were also happy it arrived so quickly.....thank you!!!!

The author explains in great detail simple but not stubborn ways to take care of Betas. I will recommend to a friend.

The book was exactly how it was described. I am very pleased with my purchase.

While this is not a HOW TO STEP BY STEP GUIDE, it does provide useful information about Betta care. I recommend it.

This book features basic tips on caring bettas, example tank sizes for betta, amount of feeding and treatments of various diseases. Inside the book contains many tips and pictures about betta. This book is good for starters, but quite simple for experts. Actually, many websites also provide good tips on caring a betta. Anyway, I like this book.

this book provides basic knowledge about care of bettas. very useful. anybody who would like to learn more about betta will find it valuable.

Ok, this was a kind of nice little book. But not really. The information inside of this book was VERY basic. It never went into details about betta housing (just kept on referring to betta bowls, tiny little bowls in which a betta WOULD NOT be happy in). So thats what took away some starts, was the lack of useful information.

This book had a lot of pictures. Pictures are all well and good, but not in this book. Most of the pictures were of older, boring 'veil tail' finned bettas. Those are bettas of the past. Now we have half moons, and crowntails, so much better. But there was one image of a half moon, and one or two of delta tailed bettas. So the betta community was not represented in the least by this book. Just old veil tails.

Overall, not a good book.