I agree with the others about the lack of surface area for a betta who would need plenty of surface area to get oxygen. I've maintained a few of these kinds of tanks and there are a couple of other issues with them as well. They're difficult to clean because of the limited amount of space at the opening and magnetic scrapers don't do so well on the rounded surface. The other issue for anything tropical, especially a betta who needs the warmer temps is how to get a heater in there appropriately. Standard submersible heaters use suction cups to attach to glass but on the curved glass they don't stick/hold well which leaves them hanging and floating in the water. Not a good or safe situation plus it looks awful. The other type of heaters that hang on the side of a standard tank won't fit on those tanks properly to hang and those cannot be fully submerged. About the only fish I would attempt to keep in a tank like that would be white cloud minnows because they stay small enough and can tolerate an unheated tank... but then you still run into the difficulty with cleaning, especially trying to do gravel vacs.
Dawn
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> Has anyone had one of these? I like the look of them. I can see a
> CrownTail Betta and snail on one of these.
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> Another question I have is: How do you calculate full set up weight of a
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> Lynne
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