Betta jarring help :(

I've heard people on betta forums discuss ways of keeping them warm when you don't have a fish room. The method that seems to be popular is as follows:

Get a large plastic tub, but all the jars in the tub. Fill the tub with enough water that the jars are 75% covered. Put a heater and powerhead in the tub. Now you have warm, circulating water that will keep all your fry happy.

But would 75 degrees be ok? I would continue to do water changes everyday for the jars

75 is about where I keep my tanks. I don't see why that would harm the fry.

Phew, that's good. People were yelling at me that I would end up killing them if I didn't get the heating right.

Than you !!

I do what 'Betta Maniac Does' with the large tub. I use a deep tray so I can fit more jars in. But remember the surrounding water in which surround your jars may be 75 but the heat that is conducted into the water within the jars may be lower. So measure the temp of the water within the jars so that they are at optimum levels.

I also find its best to put 2 smaller heaters at either end of the tub/tray, because I found if one heater is used then the jars nearer the heater are warmer and further away are cooler. Hope it helped!

Swan

It did thank you hmm where would I find a big tray now :/

Betta Maniac said:

I've heard people on betta forums discuss ways of keeping them warm when you don't have a fish room. The method that seems to be popular is as follows:

Get a large plastic tub, but all the jars in the tub. Fill the tub with enough water that the jars are 75% covered. Put a heater and powerhead in the tub. Now you have warm, circulating water that will keep all your fry happy.

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that's quite genius.


I wonder if you can build lots of dividers in a large tank as well.

Dividers would be nice too

With a long tank

How do you do a water change on a large tank with lots of dividers instead of jars?

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How do you do a water change on a large tank with lots of dividers instead of jars?

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The dividers have to be perforated so the water circulates, so you just suck it out and fill it up like any other tank.

kchan said:

It did thank you hmm where would I find a big tray now :/

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walmart has some sterite under-bed storage containers that are huge, and pretty cheap. and if you wanted to, instead of putting jars in the tub with the bettas, you might be able to figure out a way to divide the tub like a regular tank. but idk, that might be a bit hard.

You could try using silicone and some window screen from the hardware store. I used this to create compartments for my sump/refugium on my salt water set up. Its definitely not pretty but works.

How would I know when to separate them?

Is a quart jar an ok size??

It's kinda hard trying to decide how to keep the fry warm and what to put them in why didn't I ever think of that?!
How's this ( about 30 fry)
I set up a 55 g tank with a few inches, enough to keep some jars warm( 19-24 quart jars)

Any advice?!

A tray would be nice but I'm afraid the heater would melt the plastic and im having trouble finding jars...

heated fry jars

You can do what i do and go too wal_mart and buy there long totes fill them half way with water and put a heater on both ends of the tote wal_mart sells 50 watt preset heater for 74 degrees fully submersible and i use glass out of a small pic frame and put under the heaters so the heater wont melt the tote thats how i keep my jarred fry warm in the winter and my one gallon tanks. hope this works for you.