What is the average life span of a betta fish?

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Most of these fish can live for 2-3 years in fish bowl.

Normally, bettas live two to five years depending on how they are cared for. Male bettas that live alone in large individual tanks and get daily exercise have lived six years or longer in laboratories. Typically, males purchased from a pet store are over four months old, at a point when their finnage becomes fullest and most attractive. Due to their shorter finnage, females available in pet stores are often only three to six months old.

Betta fish actually live for 4+ years, eight years is not uncommon, in a 2+ gallon tank. In petstores males and females are actually an average of two years old; a female's finnage is alway short.

2-3 years in a bowl but 6-7 in a tank. 8 years is not uncommon, though.

You may find it that your beta lives longer with different plants, and tanks.

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First answer by ID1433561381. Last edit by Mosoccer. Contributor trust: 0 [recommend contributorrecommended]. Question popularity: 36 [recommend question].

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