My betta fish is always hiding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree on the plants! But don't buy them from Petco/PetSmart or you may get bonus snails that you weren't planning on. I now have to cull snails in our betta tank because they breed like rabbits. The PetSmart plants also did not do well and we eventually pitched them.

We now have nano marimo moss balls and narrow leaf java fern, and our betta loves to rest on the moss balls and hide in/swim through the ferns. This is where I bought our plants:

https://aquaticarts.com/collections/freshwater-plants

The ferns came weighted down, which is good because we have a gravel bottom and I don't think the original plants did well with the gravel.

This is funny because we bough a plant from Petco about a month ago then last week noticed a tiny snail in the tank. DD is thrilled though and theres only one so no baby snails expected

[Anonymous]

Snails are hermaphroditic. You don't need two to have a snail population explosion. We felt the same way at first (Yay! Bonus snail!) and now we have to pick them out by hand.