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So you want to raise bigger looking bettas, huh? Here’s a few tips on how to do it. First and most important of all, provided a constant supply of good quality food. This applys to all types of creatures, a constant supply of good food means more nutrition and thus giving it a chance to grow bigger. Next, change the water regularly, make sure that the water conditions are optimum. A cleaner living environment prevents the fish from getting sick. Now the third trick to growing bigger bettas relate to exercise. I find that keeping my bettas in a small tank that has a little water current almost always result in growing bigger bettas. My guess is that in order to stay in one place, the bettas will have to fight the current. In this process, it is actually exercising and we all know what exercising does to a body (look at Arnold’s body from The Terminator!). However, make sure that the water current is not too strong and make sure you provide some resting place for the bettas (a piece of PVC pipe works well) in case they get too tired. One side effect (maybe a good side effect) from this is that when the current is absent, the betta will look as if it’s flaring with all its fins open to the maximum.