Betta Death? :(

[shaund]

Well I woke up the smorning and found my male betta laid of the bottom of the tank with all its fins bitten off! I knew something has been up as its been acting wierdly for a gud few days, lying at the bottom of the tank and hiding , in the tank is 2 female betta which have never had any problems with eachother, and 4 corys which are very calm and never bother any other fish. The ph is spot on and all the other fish are ok and not showing any signs of ill health, wot do u think has went wrong?

 

[Tortea]

You have the female bettas in the same tank as the male.

.....That will be the problem. Read up on betta handling, they arn't called fighting fish for nothing

Tortea

 

[Honeythorn]

The females are highly suspect. If all you had in there was 2 females , a male and the cories, it was almost certainly the females.

Mature females and males of B.Splendens should NOT be kept together in the same main tank unless you're spawning them, and even then you remove the female straight afterwards.

Even when breeding these fish are not gentle, they chase and nip eachother before wrapping.


All this biting and beating eachother up is why it is reccomended that males and females be kept apart always unless breeding ( or immature ) Males don't fight only eachother!

A lone male will usually tend to chase a female around a LOT, and even without nipping the stress of it often ends up being a factor in death.

Or as in your case, if more than one female is in the tank with a male, ganging up is pretty common unless the male is a real bruiser, and what's happened to your male is not unusual at all.


Did the place you got them from tell you to put them together?

Also how large is your tank and is it well planted or have a lot of hiding places?

 

[meguro]

what type of betta are they?

 

[woodstock]

what type of betta are they?

I would imagine betta splendens. I don't see any other type of betta handy at all (as in at an LFS), and it would be hard to see someone get another type of betta (falx, or simplex) without having first-hand experience with a splenden. But just a guess