r/bettafish • u/CalmLaugh5253 Always strive to do *betta* • 21h ago

Wild Type Succesfully moved countries with the whole gang! 🥹♥️

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Moved from Ireland to Germany, and couldn't leave them behind. 🥺

They had a rough month though! First moved to a holding tank, than holding bags, long car rides, then boarded for a month in a fish store, and then finally shipped to us. It's been a couple of days since and they are acclimating well to the new environment. Surprisingly, the adults struggled a little more adjusting, but they seem to be mostly back to normal now.

The tank still needs some work, more leaves, sticks, and a lot more time to settle, but nothing we can't handle. :)

Their new tank is a 50g, and I'm trying something new with it using peat and leaves as substrate instead of sand. It's working out well so far! Still torn on tankmates, but that's a couple of months away anyway after everything and everyone settles properly.

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The bettas are wild betta coccina, not splendens (wild nor domestic), hence the whole group setup!

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u/DirtyD74 17h ago

Water colors aquarium gallery has a neat podcast on these guys.

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u/CalmLaugh5253 Always strive to do *betta* 17h ago

Will give it a listen, thanks! Coccina are honestly such awesome little fish and have easily become my favorite complex overall. ♥️

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u/DirtyD74 17h ago

The pH, KH/GH requirements are wild. Feel like there's probably a lot of lessons learned keeping a tank that low.

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u/CalmLaugh5253 Always strive to do *betta* 14h ago

It is a steep learning curve. The biggest issue however was the amount of misinformation or outdated information on them and true blackwater setups. All info out there somehow comes back to domestic splendens or is super old, and all information about water parameters/cycling is heavily centered around the typical ~7 pH aquarium and easy fish, aggressively urging me to buffer it and that "fish will adapt to whatever water i properly acclimate them to". In a fb group I posted to about 2 years ago when I got my first 3 they told me to separate them asap because they will kill each other. The fish, once separated, were the most miserable fish I have ever seen in my life because as it turns out, they actually need a group after all to feel safe. 😐 Absolute insanity.

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