I'm considering buying this new fish, but I will have to get another tank. I wanted to get your opinions. This would be my first betta.

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It says it's a halfmoon, but it looks more like an HMX to me, since it has rounded edges. It's $45 plus shipping just for the fish :sick: , and I'll have to get the tank and everything first. I'm thinking about just a 2 1/2g bowl with a little bit of black gravel at the bottom. I'm not sure what I'll do about filtration yet (maybe one of you has a good idea for filtration in a bowl). For the light I was thinking about a clip-on reading style light over the bowl.

Anyway, what do you all think? I've been wanting to get a betta to put on my nightstand for a while now. Originally I wanted to get a crowntail, but after seeing the halfmoons I think I want one of them instead.

not for 45 bucks . it wouldnt even make show class.

if you get a betta get a 5g kit with lighting and filtration . its well worth it, the betta will exsplore every inch of that 5g and every ornament

im kinda wanting to get a black orchid hmct . search for one and you will see why

Yeah it definately wouldn't make show class for having the rounded fins, alone... but it was the best looking one I saw. I did like the black orchid, but not quite as much. To me it's ok to spend that much, as long as I'm getting the fish that I want, and I certainly can't find anything other than veiltails at any of my LFS's.

Does the 5g kit come in a bowl shape? For some reason, I just want a bowl shape. I havn't seen any at the LFS's that are larger than 2 1/2g. For a brief moment I thought about starting up another 10g... but I'm kinda sick and tired of 10g tanks... they seem to be collecting in my house. I want larger or smaller tanks.

not bowl shapes but they have bowfronts

That might be ok.

$45!?!?!

:blink:

My boyfriend and I got his mother a betta bowl and everything for her birthday one year... (The bowl, food, dechlorinator and a book on bettas - no betta. ;))

Then we got her a HOB filter. ^_^ I think it was Jebo brand, but I'm not sure. However, it sucked up her betta and killed it. :( Got no idea, how. It was surprising that it could fit in.

I'm not very helpful, sorry. :P

Are you going to be heating the tank?
I don't know how you're gonna attack the heater in a bowl? :mellow:

Yeah, $45... I can't find these HMX's in my LFS's. :$:

I probably should go with a heater, just to keep the temperature steady. Guess that means I'll have to go with a bowfront tank... or I've seen some of those wave tanks that look pretty nice... though I havn't seen too many that I would consider big enough.

As for HOB filters... You can put nylon over them to keep them from sucking up your fish (it also provides an extra place for benefitial bacteria to grow). I learned that after mine sucked up 5 guppies in one night, and clouded the water from chopping them up in the impeller... poor fish. :sick:

The tank we got my boyfriend's mother is like this, but about 4 times the size and a different 'pattern' for the glass... But is this what you're refering to as a 'wave tank'?

You can get bettas like that that are bred in Thailand and that are true HMs on Aquabid.com

waste of money in my oppinion

I keep a few bettas and use no heaters or filtration. 90-100% water change once a week and they are good to go. Oxygenation is a mute point so filtration would only serve the purpose of a bio cycle in which is not entirely needed with bettas.

that is how my auntie keeps hers