heres the problem...
everyone thus far has given you EXCELENT information reguarding the keeping of betta fish, your the one who took attitude when people told you betta should NOt be kept in tiny vases and NEED a minimum of 1 gallon...
so yes my post was harsh but only after about 3 pages of people trying to NICELY tell you that a tiny little bowl or vase is NOT a good choice for keeping a betta despite what the "experts" at
petco/
petsmart tell you..and despite what the "experts" who make those tiny little "betta tanks" will try and have you belive.
you didnt want to hear actual advice...you want people to agree with you and when they didnt and i particularly got agrivated with the fact that after asking for advice you blatantly ignored and Argued about the FACTS of keeping betta from people who im sure have had many more than 7-8 of them...(i know theres at least a couple of betta breeders on this forum...(i even posted a link to a WONDERFULL betta forum with lots of amazing information for you but i doubt you even checked that out))
i realy do wish any fish a long happy and healthy life but the fact of the matter is, betta fish cannot
happily live in tiny vases of 1/2 gallon bowls...
can they survive?! sure they can...
but thats like saying a dog can survivie in a tiny cage so its OK to put them in one for the rest of thier life...
just because you CAN doesnt mean you should...
and spouting that its ok to keep betta in tiny little fish prisons because "experts" make them drives me crazy because its such a MASSIVE case of misinformation which many dont care to learn any differently...
those bowls, vases and tiny tanks are NOT made by fish experts anymore than allglass company who make fishtanks are fish experts...there not..they simply make little glass/plastic boxes to be sold to people who keep fish...
its up to the person buying the fish to do thier homework...
ill use my own fish as an example...
gigantor is a blood parrot cichlid.
He is almost 9" in lenght and a good age...
his exact age, i dont know.
i got gigantor from a rescue situaton, hed ben kept in a 20 gallon fishtank with an adult oscar who had been beating the snot out of him...he was missing most of the scales on both of his sides, he hid all the time and wasnt a happy fish...hed lived in this situation for years aparently...and had grown form a tiny 1" fish-ling to an almot 8" (when i got him) adult, he ate no problem, and "officially" a 20 gallon tank is mroe than enough water for the 2 adult fish...
he ate, he sat around in the plants, he grew...
for all effective purposes...he was "healthy"
but because the oscar was beating him up the owner gave him to a petstore locally...there usually pretty good with fish and ive shopped there before.
i found gigantor crammed into a 10 gallon tank...big enough in water volume sure...an 8" fish, 1 gallon per inch being the general rule, but he couldnt move, the tank was barely long enough for him to turn around...
be ate, he sat around in his 1 little plant and he was...for all effective purposes, "HEALTHY"...
does that make it right?! is it "ok" for an 8" fish to be cramed into a 12" long space simly because hes still alive and eating?! NO...
they gave me gigantor, he now lives very hapily in a 30 gallon tank (soon to be 55) guess what, he eats, he grows and does everything he did in the 2 tanks which were much too small for him...
the difference however is my "LAZY" fish is now acive, he swims he chases the other fish, he moves his "furniture" around, hes active...hes not just healthy...hes HAPPY
the RULE for keeping all tropcial fish (betta are a tropical fish) is 1 gallon per 1 inch of adult fish...bettas can actually grow to 2" full grown (bigger for the "king" subspecies" so given the RULE used by almost all tropical fish keepers, a betta would actually require a minimum of 2 gallons.
due to the fact however that betta are labyrinth fish many betta folks agree that they can happily live in aproximatly 1/2 that given gallonage as long as the water is kept imaculatly clean...so...1 gallon IS the minimum for a betta fish.
(for goldfish this rule changes to 10 gallons per goldfish minimum for deep bodied fish like moores and 20 gallons for long bodied fish like comets...)
your the one who took the attitude first when people were trying to educate you and save yet another betta from a life in a Wholley inappropriate "home"
as a side note, my spelling and grammar is attrocious...i have a brain injury and quite frankly hate spell check...
however i feel that if your going to get a PET, you should at the minimum be able to spell the name of that species correctly....
to me its the equivalent of someone getting a doberman and calling it a dovermun...if you dont know what its called...you shouldnt be buying it.
if betta bowls weere created by "experts" then what where goldfish bowls also created by the "experts"? 
