(08-21-2013, 03:56 AM)cpwebsite Wrote: As a result, you can get like a 1 gallon bowl and then every week scoop up some water, dump it, refill and add prime and do a 20% weekly water change with like 2 minutes of effort.
I have to disagree with you.
There is no room in a 1 gallon fish soup cup for any of the mandatory equipment such as a filter and a heater. Without proper filtration, there won't even be nitrate. You will get the toxic ammonia instead and it will kill the fish within weeks. Without a heater, the betta fish's immune system will fail eventually and die to diseases if not freeze to death first.
The bottom line, you just can't keep the water at stable temperature, PH, hardness, etc. with such small body of water. Fish will die rather quickly in this unsuitable environment.
Like we have been saying, you need a minimal 5 gallon for a betta fish. You need this much room to keep water conditions stable, and you need the room for proper equipment in order to keep the fish alive.
