The Green Spotted Puffer: Care, Feeding and Tank Setup

The Green Spotted Puffer Fish

The Green Spotted Puffer (Tetraodon nigoviridis) is a colorful fish native to Southeast Asia. They are recognizable by their yellow-green backs dotted with black or brown leopard-like spots. Green Spotted Puffers have become very popular in home aquariums due to their spunky attitudes and unique behaviors.

All About Betta Fish: Care, Behavior and Tank Setup

The Betta is a colorful fish that requires special care.

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About the Betta Fish

Betta, also called Siamese Fighting Fish, are among the most colorful and interesting additions you can make to your home aquarium. They are both fierce and fragile, and require a unique set of conditions in which to thrive. Many people keep Bettas in tanks or bowls separate from their other fish, which is fine. But few people realize Bettas can be fine community fish as well, under the right circumstances.

In the wild, Betta (Betta spendens) can be found in ponds, slow-moving creeks and rivers in Southeast Asia. They are Anabantoids, which means they can breathe air above the water through their mouths as well as obtain oxygen from the water through their gills. This is why you’re able to keep a Betta in a bowl without filtration or water movement: They can exist in low-oxygen water environments where other fish would perish. In the wild, this means rice paddies or even muddy puddles, for short periods of time.

Betta Fish: Halfmoon Betta Fish Care and Tips

Betta fish are low maintenance, beautiful fish that can add personality and interest to your life or home. Often called Siamese fighting fish, Betta's are vibrant fish that can survive without the help of a filter or expensive aquarium filter, and they are the only fish that can do so well.

Contrary to popular belief, goldfish do require filters to survive, although they can live shortened lives (by about 70%) in simple bowls. In my more naive days, I still believed the cartoons that portrayed happily swimming goldfish. It was a very Dr. Suess-esque dream that was shattered upon the rapid succession of goldfish terminations that I suffered. Calypso, Cinnibar and all the rest weighed heavily on my conscience until I discovered betta fish, more specifically, Halfmoon Betta Fish.