Terms of use

These terms cover what you can and can't do with Betta Dreams content. Read them once. They're short.

Last updated: 2026-05-03.

Content ownership

All editorial text on Betta Dreams is original work and © Betta Dreams. Short quotations with attribution are fine for academic, journalistic, or educational use. Reproducing an entire article requires written permission. Email hello@bettadreams.com and we'll usually say yes.

Image licences

Images on this site fall into three buckets. Public-domain or Creative Commons images from Wikimedia Commons, NOAA, or similar archives are credited under the image and governed by their original licence. Reader-submitted images are used with permission and credited accordingly. Original photography by the publication is © Betta Dreams, available for editorial reuse with attribution. Always follow the link in the caption to confirm the licence before reusing an image elsewhere.

No warranty, no fish-diagnosis advice

Articles describe what works in general. They aren't veterinary advice for a specific fish. If your fish is visibly sick, the right move is to contact an aquatic veterinarian, not to extract a dosing schedule from a paragraph on this site and hope.

Content is compiled with reasonable care from primary and secondary sources, but may still contain errors. We correct them as we find them. Corrections welcome.

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Don't subscribe with an address that isn't yours. Don't use the subscribe form for automated testing, abuse, or to harass anyone whose address you don't control. Subscribe attempts are rate- limited; persistent abuse will be blocked at the network layer.

Affiliate links

Some outbound links are affiliate links that earn us a commission if you buy. See the disclosures page. Our review standards and product recommendations are not influenced by the commission.

External links

We link generously to primary sources: PubMed, IUCN, FishBase, ScienceDirect, the Merck Vet Manual, breeder sites. Those links go to third parties whose terms and privacy notices apply to your visit there, not here.

Acceptable use

Don't scrape the site at a rate likely to impact availability for other readers. Don't republish entire articles without permission. Don't run automated tools that train models on this content without a written arrangement.

Changes

We may update these terms as the site grows. Material changes get a bumped "last updated" date and, for breaking changes, a homepage banner for 30 days.

Governing law

Any dispute arising from these terms is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the publisher is based. If you're in a different jurisdiction with stricter consumer protections, those apply to you.

Contact

Permissions, licensing, or legal questions: hello@bettadreams.com.