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Hi Serena -Very Nice Choices, Betta's!Since you have had many in the past I won't have to address basic care. Whew. So my aesnwr to your Q will be all fun stuff. Maybe some will be new, maybe some will inspire some ideas of your own.My betta's both male and female like to chase and bite at the laser light I shine in the tank.The males love to spread out over a leaf. Females barely know there's plants in there at all.One male in a currentless tank like to tuck in under the bottom leaf at night. Like a blanket!So low lying or high these guys do love plants.I like to keep Ghost Shrimp, excellent scavengers and a blast to watch too. Some males like to eat them. Females don't. They keep the tank free of the tiniest bits of food, don't take up any room, don't multiply very easily, skim the surface upside down when feeding flake, so transparent I can see the wall thru their body and I can watch the development of the larvae thru the pregnant ones body.Some males like to swim thru tubes I put in there.One female likes to gaze at herself for the longest time in the thermometer reflection.( you didn't say what you have male or female so I'm just throwing out general ideas )That same female likes to shimmy up to the intake on the filter, let it suck up her fins flat, she just hangs there for awhile until something else catches her eye, then she swims off.Some males love to do same thing sort of w/ air stones.I can share anything w/ them. They always listen.I like to mix up the furniture from time to time, their like a cat in how they have to reinspect everything all over again.Sometimes I hover over them with pellet. Some of them jump. They gave me that idea. One female esp. will jump after watching me feed everyone else first.For food and a long life ? idk ? I feed mine Hikari Gold pellets and they always get some flake when I'm trying to feed everyone else. Supp. with Hikari Ocean Plankton ? they all go nuts over that, and freeze dried bloodworms ? the usual.I know many people swear by live mosquito larvae (which comes from a stagnant bucket in the backyard) or freeze-dried bloodworms. All I know is I fed ONE bloodworm, cut up, ONE time to both a male and female and they both soon died of dropsy. Now there are meds out for dropsy but, why go there?I culture my own live food. I have complete control over quality. Again, the usual ? microworms (many say the adult Betta's won't eat them, they do, just takes them awhile to realize it's live food. That's where Tetras help. Betta's watch and realize something interesting going on over in the Tetra section And live brine shrimp, once the baby brines have eaten thru their yolk sac (about 12 hrs after hatch) their value goes down in fat and rises in protein. I'm looking into Daphnia. Supposedly brine shrimp and daphnia are laxatives, who knows. I used the pea trick but haven't had to in a long time.Tubifex and copepods are just nasty. If I can't stand the smell or look of them I'm not growing them. Personal preference ? other people love them.The local Petco takes such good care of the Betta's and told me they add salt to the water when they change out the tubs so now I do too. I'd read so many pro's and cons it just left me confused so I left it alone until now. bc teaspoon to a gallon of water at water change time.Hope this gave you a few new things ? ideas and such,Angie The exrpetise shines through. Thanks for taking the time to answer. IP:192.99.2.73 TIME:"2014-03-25 (火) 16:22:24" REFERER:"http://masterwiki.net/?cmd=edit&help=true&page=Siamese%20Fighting%20Fish%2C%20Help%20and%20Advice" USER_AGENT:"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0"
