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If you wanted a group of females I would use the whole 10 gallons and not just a section of it. Sororities ideally should have enough space for lower-ranking females to get away from the more dominant ones. This is why it's usually recommended that a group of females be housed in a minimum 10...

10 gallons is perfectly fine for a single male, and is equally fine divided into two or three individual sections. The betta male I house in a 1 gallon breeding net (inside a larger filtered tank) is just as healthy and active as my males housed individually in 5 gallon tanks. As long as bettas...

You can also add some crushed coral to your filter media and this will help buffer your water long-term. Our water has essentially no hardness here, so cycling poses a problem. I just use a pinch of crushed coral in a stocking and over the course of a few days it will start to harden your water...

Haha she's a witch. She lives in a temporary tank with another female in a breeder's net and is always flaring at her poor roommate. I'm currently scouring AB trying to find a nice male with the colour and form I want. I have 10 more females (these are just Cambodian CTs and VTs) coming by...

Thanks for the compliments guys. I was somehow supposed to be cutting back on my bettas but now I'm actually importing a few females to try out in the spawning tank :lol: If I can find a suitable-sized male (she is a big girl) for Fidget, I will probably end up using her as I think she's...

I am sort of new here, but I thought I'd post up some pics of my sorority tank. I have around 30 bettas (not including my wild species) and have been keeping them for around 2 years now. (Yes I know this is a male. He has been living with the sorority since the start - nearly a year - and...

She's probably under-stimulated and doing it out of boredom. A lot of betta keepers call it 'glass surfing'. One of my females used to do it when she was housed in a bare-bottom temp tank. I prefer to house my females in at least 10-15L as they are much more active than the males and like to...

Wood drops the pH of water so I wouldn't add any to your tank if you're aiming for a higher pH. If you have a hardness test (KH and GH) you will be able to test the hardness/softness of your water. Particularly soft water has a low buffering capacity and is prone to causing swings in pH (which...