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How big is the tank?

Namias, they will kill each other eventually. There are lots of debates when it comes to bettas, but few will disagree that you can't keep males and females together without eventual trouble. You might not see the nipping—you'd just find a destroyed tail or dead betta one morning.

Mine books and film for your favourite character names! My bettas are Delirium (from Sandman) and Sigmund (as in Freud). In the past I've had Shelmerdine, Bonthrop and Orlando...

Have you tried daily WCs of 50% over a week? You probably need to give the fin rot treatment more of a chance. I'm currently finding that daily WCs and a very low dose of Melafix are working wonders on Sigmund, who was fin-nipped last week.

Hi Namias, Welcome to the forum. First things first: male and female fighting fish should never be housed together. You need to separate them asap. The only time they can be housed together is temporarily, for the purposes of breeding — but that takes specialist knowledge and care. Move one to...

No one has suggestions on what kind of microrasbora and how many?

*edited to make the first post clearer

Hi guys, Just bought a new Juwel 54L (approx. 14/15G) tank. It's planted, and I've moved the fish from an old 30L tank in: five kuhli loaches and Sigmund the betta. There's probably snails too. Suggestions on new additions? I'd like to try micro-rasbora (e.g. chilli rasbora)—are they hardy? I...

He looks amazing to me!

This one looks kind of cool though (6G): http://www.seapets.co.uk/products/aquarium-supplies/aquariums/glass-aquariums/betta-aquarium-23-litres.html

I *love* three, but they're all pretty gorgeous. Sorry, that's not a critique; I just liked looking.

I like his name!

Good god, it's depressing reading the product reviews for that "tank". :/

Ask him for photographic proof!

I had six glowlights in my 10G with a betta, and they nipped him until I had to shift them to another tank.