Vivariums containing bettas and shrimps!

 Vivarium refers to an enclosed containers of live animals under certain controlled conditions. In this manner, little maintenance is required. In this case, little fish such as bettas are used. Little shrimps or lobsters may also be used, but they would require some feeding once in a while. The bottles, when closed, formed a natural ecosystem that require little care, but is fun and enjoyable watch.

I've attached pictures of the setup with bettas and shrimps so you could see how the setup looks like. Your setup might not be exactly the same, however, if you like we could try to make it as similar as possible if we have the same accessories.

Right now, you could own a set at just $55 for the betta setup and $45 for the shrimps setup. If you have any other setup or different animals, contact us and we will try to help you. Leave your selection in the memo as I'm still new to Qoo10 so do not know how to set the options. For the Betta setup, the other $10 would be collected during the meetup. Please give us up to one week to prepare your setup as we will need to acclimite the tank for the shrimps/fishes. Once we are done, we would contact you for the collection.

Area for collection would be at Toa Payoh MRT. However, we could discuss about other area.

The care for the vivarium is actually very easy.

Put the vivarium in a brightly lit area, fluorescent light will also do. 

Don’t put the vivarium under direct sunlight. It will cause algae to grow on the bottle surfaces.

No feeding is required unless there are mini lobsters in the vivarium. Fish and shrimps feed on the marimo. You can feed fish food if you want to, this can reduce the chance of the fish fighting one another, but feed very little amounts so that the water will not be dirty too soon. For vivariums with mini lobsters, feed only about two to three times a week.

If possible, try to change a third of the water every week so that pH of the water would not be too high. Preferably, use water that is allowed to stand for a night to reduce the chlorine level. Carefully scoop out the water with spoons or small measuring cups so that you will not disturb the sand bed below. Then carefully add the clean water in the same way.

Quickly remove any dead creatures using a plastic spoon from the bottle as soon as possible so that it would not infect the others.

Do not disturb or scare the creatures unnecessarily or they may die.