Betta fish are a popular choice for aquarium enthusiasts due to their vibrant colors, unique personality, and low maintenance. To create an aesthetically pleasing display with live plants, you need a vase, aquarium gravel, aquarium plants, a Betta fish, and other items. A DIY Betta fish plant vase requires a few supplies including a vase, aquarium gravel, aquarium plants, a Betta fish, and a few other items.
To make a DIY Betta fish plant vase, you’ll need a few supplies including a vase, aquarium gravel, aquarium plants, a Betta fish, and a few other items. Follow a step-by-step guide to set up and care in 2024.
Additionally, keep the water temperature between 76-82°F (24-28°C) with a heater to keep your fish comfortable. Use gentle filtration using a gentle plant like Anubias, which can be floated and provide shade for fish. Plants with broad, sturdy leaves are ideal for male betta fish, as they have long fins and need frequent rest.
Caring for a Betta fish in a vase involves feeding them regularly, changing the water regularly, and cleaning the vase. Feed them what they will consume in 2 minutes, and use betta pellets such as Tetramin Granules Tropical Fish Food. Avoid feeding them fatty betta pellets.
In summary, keeping a Betta fish in a vase with live plants not only looks beautiful but also provides a natural environment for them. Choose plants that are easy to care for, such as Java Fern, Java Moss, Amazon Sword Plant, and others, and follow a step-by-step guide to ensure a healthy and comfortable environment for your Betta fish.
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The first time I watched your website, I clicked away because I was ashamed. I didn’t have a heater, filter, and colored gravel. Now I’m excited to explore and have nutrient rich substrate (shoutout fluval), live plants that I haven’t killed, lights, and a happy tank. My fish, snail and shrimp have a good home and I can comfortably watch your articles without feeling guilt
Hi!🌞 I’m a new subscriber and really am getting lots of good info from you. I’m especially loving all the plant and Beta tank info. We have 2 Betas right now but I’m sure I will come home with more. I can’t resist them. I’ve been trying to find another white opal but they have illuded me so far. We had a beautiful one who developed a swim bladder problem and died after almost a yr!😪 I was in tears! I also have a 5 gal fluval tank in my kitchen with cherry shrimp and Endlers. I want more articles and love how honest you are about what you did wrong or right. Always a fan,Jennifer💜
Thanks for this article 🙂 My young betta Namiko always plays within the plants. He swims through the leaves, getting excited and goofy. He is such a little sweetheart 🥰 My other betta Indigo loves Amazon frogbit, especially the long roots for exploring. He always sticks himself between the leaves to sleep at night. Live plants are the best in any tank ❤
My betta loves the amazon frogbit and Anubias too! I ordered my first crypt and jungle Val from aquarium coop so I’m excited to see them grow out. I have an amazon sword that I got from petco that shedded most of its leaves except for two new leaves so it’s exciting to watch that one grow. Always had a black thumb but seem to be doing okay with aquarium plants!
I’m getting my first betta soon… hopefully. I do want to use live plants because of all of the benefits it brings, but I’m not sure if it’s the best idea to use live plants in my first fish tank ever, I’m worried I might struggle (I don’t have much experience when it comes to fish) Would you recommend using live plants? Or should I just stick with fake ones until I get the hang of things? Great article by the way!
I just subscribed to your website. You are great at explaining the how and why things work. I am setting up my first ever aquarium with live plants. I only have a small amount of room to place an aquarium. I bought a 5 gallon tank. I am going to put a Betta in it. I do believe I have over planted it though. It looks very jungle like. I hope my fish friend will be okay when I get him. At this point, I am cycling the tank. Once the water parameters are correct, I will be adding my fish. I am extremely happy that you did the article about setting up a sponge filter. I had watched several articles from Aquarium CO-OP about filters and made the decision to add a sponge filter. Once I received the filter I realized, I didn’t know how to set it up. Thanks to you, it’s up and running! Thanks again.
How long should I cycle a new planted tank before adding my betta and tankmates? I’m 15 and I want to start a planted betta tank. But all the research I’ve done and articles I’ve watched have said to cycle the tank for a couple months before adding the fish. I plan to cylce the tank for at least a week to get the Nitrate and PH levels safe. But should I wait longer? I also want to put in a couple snails to help with algae growth. And I was thinking about a small 6-7 school of Ember tetras. I could really use some advice, tips, or just info. Thank you!
Great article. I use anubias broadleaf in my betta tanks. I also put some of the pothos in the tanks. My fish use the pothos leaves as hammocks, all I can see at night is the tips of their tails hanging off the edge of the leaves. The leaves do eventually start to rot, but it takes months, and then I just replace them with new leaves from the mother plant.
Excellent article; very informative. I just bought a betta and am keeping him in a Fluval Flex 15 (with 2 Endlers and a mystery snail). I noticed that he is often lying in the substrate under plants or sometimes in them. I was concerned about this until I saw your article. I guess bettas are lazy fish. I often see any of my community fish hanging around the bottom among plants, but I rarely see them on the substrate or lying in the fronds like the betta does.
Interesting! I also removed the moss balls and hornwort from my betta tanks because no betta I’ve had interacted/enjoyed either plant. I have a decent carpeting of littorella uniflora and my betta loves to lay on top or squeeze between plants. They root really well, so he hasn’t lifted any and I can vacuum over them no problem. I had ONE plant, with five leaves and it looked completly different when I bought it. It died back, in fairness it was in sand, so when I moved it to Tropica soil, it took off and covered two of my tanks! Tropica soil is so light it’s really easy for runner plants to propagate. It’s actually a really nice replacement for the non-aquatic mondo grass I got duped into buying early on!
Can you discuss the topic why betta fish often to wide its mouth aside from gasping for air for no reason is that normal? Because so far my betta is in the fish ball but I put live plants still I’m worried if it needs to have oxygen/airpump Thank you so much I always watch your informational vids. 🙂
I love betta fish so I got one in May .. and then a few days ago here in mid Nov. i got a female one to see if they’d hook up and make babies, I’m keeping the male in about 25 gallons and the female in about a quart. for now. I kind of want to hobby and gift with this. . . no commercial enterprise in em. But ! they ought to be happy. This may help. They’re in stagnant water, and it probably drops below 70 sometimes. is that ok? they keep flippering and living and eating, so good, huh?
I actually just purchased the plant I think it’s a stem plant but it’s has large leaves that are kind of one side is green and the bottom is like a reddish purplish. I just planted them into the gravel because they don’t have a rhizome and they don’t actually have Roots so I’m assuming it’s a stem plant. I actually bought too many plans because I didn’t realize how many came like in a little container when you buy them. pretty much added plants to everything I have because I really had no idea how many plants there were.
Someone HELP ME OUT! Im a Betta lover from age 13 and had 9 bettas in total which each of them i had for atleast 3½ years… i used the same tank for them which is my 3 gallon tank and they seemed pretty fine with it… ive never used live planrs before and im willing to add some to my tank but i dunno what to choose! i was thinking about Anubias bc i dont have any substrate and i havent any fertilizers… will anubias be a problem? and also my tank is a feet in height…
Hello so I have a 10 gallon tank with 11 live plants 3 fake plants I have a nice open space in the middle with a few decorations a sunken ship with plenty of holes to swim through. A small castle which liberty “my betta” doesnt fit in so it’s a good hiding spot for any other fish I add. a peace of fake coral it’s small. And a log which I super glued 3 small java furn to a smallish rock and put it on the log and I also glued 3 more small ones to a rock and put it near the front of my tank . I did get 3 amazon swards I will be trimming them often and 1 potted really tall grass thing I forget what it is call. And a potted crypt I dont remember exactly which kind though. I have 1 male beta red white and blue double tail, and 3 zebrafish, they all get along swimmingly but I want to add some more fish/shrimp. The tank water is nice and green tinted and has been set up for 2 weeks. With not even a single plant or fish loss. I want to get 5-10 shrimp and 2-3 neon or ember tetras, and 2-3 harlequin fish. What would you recommend is that okay I know the tank is fairly new and I would space them out like next week get the shrimp then if all continues to go well for a week or 2 get the harlequin fish and in another week or 2 get the tetras. I am planning on trading out the fake plants for more real plants, and tomorrow I will be setting up a double sponge filter the upettoolsUPETTOOLS Aquarium Biochemical Sponge Filter, Ultra Quite Aquarium Air Pump Single Head Bio Sponge Fish Tank Foam filter and with the shrimp being added I really feel like the tank will thrive with all real plants and more fish especially if I wait a week or 2 between adding a new species I have a gravel bottom so I would love some loaches instead of the tetras I just dont think it’s okay to have them since I have gravel.
I have a 120 gallon tank, with 1 ruffle sword, anubias nana, 2 amazon swords, trident Java fern, Java fern, 6 pieces water wisteria, another type of plant that you tube won’t let me write, 5 water lilies, and water sprite. As for fish, I have an 18 inch common plecostomus, 2 mini plecos, a half moon betta with a gold tail, named Hypersonic, 6 African Pygmy frogs, 9 amano shrimp, 6 zebra nerite snails,11 ember tetras, 11 neon tetras, 6 albino Cory cats, 1 bronze Cory cat, and lots of rocks and driftwood.
Irene, I had no idea you had your own website. I need to get my wife to start perusal your articles. We are about to setup our first Betta tank. We got just got a 14 gal Aqueon frameless cube (about 15 inches on each side) from Petco for half price! Anyway, I know we want to avoid Amazon Sword and we have some Windlov Java Fern in another tank we might move over to the new tank, but what is your opinion on regular Java Fern for a Betta?
I’ve never liked fake plants.. They feel way too “fake” – just knowing they’re fake would annoy me.. I use pothos, and bamboo as they’re easy for me to take care of.. They are only partly submerged.. My betta likes to swim around and lay on the roots.. He likes to build bubble nests around the plant’s stalks / stems as well.. 😅 I use pennywort, too – I have this plant growing wild all over my yard (and pennywort is one of the floating plants that’s recommended for aquariums), so I like to use them in my tank as well… Before I put the root stems in the tank, I clean them really good and remove the leaf stems that are already on the the root stems because the leaves will melt and rot away.. but when in the water, the root stems will start to grow new leaves that are used to growing submerged in water.. 😊 I also have a little sponge filter in the tank, set to low pressure, that way there’s some movement of oxygen / water for the plants and my betta.. I keep him in a 5 gallon, and he has never jumped out.. so, I don’t use a lid. I also don’t have the water filled to the tippy top like some ppl do… The water level stays around 1 1/2 inches below the tank’s top rim. 👍
Plants are great, but make sure you leave enough room for the betta to swim the length of the tank – & enough room for it to be able to roam the bottom of the tank. Speaking from experience, if you make a jungle out of your fish tank, your betta might not be able to work it’s weight off, & as a result it becomes very each to over-feed your betta – which leads to health complications… So keep the plant-life sparse, add a few large pebbles for the betta to sit on or hide behind, maybe a little tunnel or cave, & your fish will be suitably active…
Hi may I know why is ur blue colour betta have a black head like bacteria infection. My betta is a blue or turquoise samurai and his head have the same issue and top and right side is cover with black thing and the left side is just blue. When I first got him it is not like this. Can u tell me what is going on with my betta
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Here’s an attempt to summarize the article. I have a hard time understanding the plant names so if I got any of them wrong, please let me know. 1:18 Surface/floating Plants: Amazon frogbits, redroot floaters?, water spargins? 2:42 Plants with Lily Pads: banana plants? dwarf aquarium leaves? red tiger lotus 3:08 Plants with Wide Leaves: Anubias – no need for substrate – leave rhizome on top Apongetons (betta bulbs) Java ferns 5:28 Pillowy plants Cryptocorynes: Wintyne? Tropica? Bolbitis (African Water Fern) 6:32 Bonus plants Pothos (Devil’s Ivy) 7:15 Plants to avoid Marimo Moss Balls – releases filaments that you need to keep removing Hornwort – sheds needles and leaves everywhere Amazon sword – they get pretty big so they are unfit for small aquariums