Bettas Or A Beautiful Community Tank

[the tigrex]

ok so i want to get a new tank im thinking around 60liters and a few bettas or a betta n loads of over fish i love bettas how big must your tank be to have more then one male betta and how many female bettas and over fish can i get in a 60liter what would be a good size for a betta tank or community tank i dnt like catfish or bottom dwellers btw people and i want liek bettas with over nice fish send links to tanks fish help me owt guys

 

[the tigrex]

ok so i want to get a new tank im thinking around 60liters and a few bettas or a betta n loads of over fish i love bettas how big must your tank be to have more then one male betta and how many female bettas and over fish can i get in a 60liter what would be a good size for a betta tank or community tank i dnt like catfish or bottom dwellers btw people and i want liek bettas with over nice fish send links to tanks fish help me owt guys

also i kind like guyppies could try to breed them sometime

 

[metromyers]

Hello Tigrex here are a few things I have learned from this forum about keeping bettas....

first- only one male betta to a tank,no matter how big the tank is.
second-males and females can't live together (except when breeding)
third-females can live together but you need 4 to 5 females, it takes about a week for them to work out the pecking order.

There are a few fish that can live with bettas. Cory cats, oto cats, guppies, and a few others. You need to check out what other fish can live with bettas. Some usually non-aggressive fish like to bite betta's fins.

Betta's are beautiful fish that don't like to play nice with each other, or some other fish, do some research.

Oh and the rule of thumb is one gallon per fish.

 

[the tigrex]

i want to get a baby betat or few female babyies i dno want size tank i getting yet im goijg to pet sotres 2moz

 

[Mauricia]

third-females can live together but you need 4 to 5 females, it takes about a week for them to work out the pecking order.

There are a few fish that can live with bettas. Cory cats, oto cats, guppies, and a few others. You need to check out what other fish can live with bettas. Some usually non-aggressive fish like to bite betta's fins.

I agree with everything you said except for these two bits. With females, I would say 5 is a minimum but the more you can have the better, to disperse agression. I've heard a lot of people say 8 in a heavily planted 15 gallon tank is a safe minimum, depending on the females.

The other issue is that you should never put bettas in with guppies because they're likely to confuse the brightly colored fins with their own species and kill them.

 

[the tigrex]

finding 8 very beaitful baby healy betats gna be hard haha but if they baby they shud be less aggersive

 

[LauraFrog]

They won't be aggressive when they're babies, no. But some will be male and some will be female. Your chances of getting all female 8 babies are almost nil and you can't sex them with any certainty until they are at least three or four months old. You cannot keep multiple males in the same tank, or males with females. It's that simple, and growing on a group of siblings will not change it. They will still start to fight when they start reaching sexual maturity.

 

[the tigrex]

by baby i mean baby or small n the males are big flowing fins females have small fins

 

[metromyers]

But you can't tell male from female untill they are older. It is hard to tell them apart when they are little.

 

[the tigrex]

i was thinking female bettas and guppies would that work

 

[the tigrex]

also i heard female bettas are a bit boreing so what could i put with male bettas that are nice and active and look nice or any completely differnt fish that look nice that are tropical

 

[lilfishie]

i have had bad expericence with females and guppies so i'm gonna say no to that

as for male tankmates, mine happily lives with cories

 

[Honeythorn]

To be honest there are so few midwater and surface swimming fish that work with male bettas , it's best to just keep one on it's own if you don't like bottom feeders.


Females are far from boring, they may not have the long fancy fins of the males, but their colours can be just as attractive . You should take a look at some of the ones in here and see if you like them.

 

[LauraFrog]

If you want to keep male bettas you should really think about more smaller tanks than one larger one, because males just cannot be kept together. They can't be part of a lively active tropical community; they are unsuitable fish for the general community tank.

 

[the tigrex]

how maany female bettas could i have in a 60liter how many guppies cud i have too