Flaring?

[lilacamy931]

Well with bettas one rule would be they have very independant personalities. I personally having 5 boys had to determine what fish I could keep them with if any, some will share and others wont. I do not have any female bettas and if I did would not put her in with any of the boys as she would surely become a target. Most people that have tried this combo have faired badly from what I have read. In terms of the female I would move her. In terms of the rest of the fish that is down to the male and how aggressvie he is. I have one male with lampeyes and it is a good mix, another with khulis. I also at one time had frogs, this worked ok but it was a day to day basis and in the end moved them to a better home rather than risk any damage.

 

[TheSims3Dude]

Hmm, no offense, but I'm really upset right now, I honestly don't know what to do, I don't really have any room for another tank
(my house is really small)
plus I have an anxiety disorder (among other things)
and I'm starting to get a little nervous, sorry! this sounds really stupid, but I'm so ugh!!
I don't know what to do!

 

[The young one]

It's ok, just move the male to your dads tank and leave the female in yours, don't worry it's happened to all of us before.

 

[lilacamy931]

Hmm, no offense, but I'm really upset right now, I honestly don't know what to do, I don't really have any room for another tank
(my house is really small)
plus I have an anxiety disorder (among other things)
and I'm starting to get a little nervous, sorry! this sounds really stupid, but I'm so ugh!!
I don't know what to do!

The easiest thing would be to return the male and keep the female maybe build up with 3 other females if have the space and have a sorority going. How does he behave on a daily basis? Does he just gently protect his space with a show or is he actively chasing everywhere with much hinderance? The female or male needs to go unless you do keep them together and take the chance and maybe get lucky, but it would be a chance to take hon.

Dont get upset hon, we will sort, it may mean taking fish back or rehoming x

EDIT: Sorry just reread to realise you have the male/female together and a commuinity separate, you can try the male in there and keep female where she is!

 

[TheSims3Dude]

He just gently protected his space, he chased her for 2 sec, (that was yesterday)
I checked on em now, and they're on opposite sides of the tank, sometimes they swim with each other,
he seems pretty good now,


EDIT:
No you read it right the first time, I have them in with the community tank

 

[lilacamy931]

Either way then hon move one, the male may do ok by the sounds of it in the community

 

[TheSims3Dude]

Ok, I'll keep checking on them, but hopefully they will both be ok! Thanks though!

 

[TheSims3Dude]

Hey, I took your advice and moved my male to a 3 gallon tank (it's either a 3 or 5) lol
anyways, he seems a lot happier now!
I really want to breed my betta's but I want to do it right, any suggestions?

 

[mobey]

Hmm, I'm just confused. cuz I'm on this other site, bettaparadise.co.uk, (my name's captain_jim57) and I'm getting mixed reviews, some people say it's ok that they've had em together before with no problems, but then other people are telling me it's really bad. I'm at a loss of what to do, and like I said, I've only had betta's once before together and they lived happily with each other... but I do want to make sure that they'll both be ok, should I wait it out for now, like keep checking on them, and go from there? If he's bullying my fish to much move him?

EDIT:
They are not in a tank by themselves, it's a community tank with other fish too
so they have lots of room to swim in (it's a 20 gallon tank) with lots of plants and ornaments

SimsDude I go on b paradise, just had a look and no1 said that it was a gud idea, infact 1 person said it was maybe ok and then the admin dude said actually in that case the fish died, so its not confuzin , everyone says seperate em. so thats what you should do, or return one of them as some1 said. Sorry but they were always helpful to me on that forum and dont want ppl to think dat they said it was ok cos they didnt

 

[mobey]

Hmm, no offense, but I'm really upset right now, I honestly don't know what to do, I don't really have any room for another tank
(my house is really small)
plus I have an anxiety disorder (among other things)
and I'm starting to get a little nervous, sorry! this sounds really stupid, but I'm so ugh!!
I don't know what to do!

If ur house is small and u didnt hav room for more tanks, dont breed em, if you breed em you'll hav way way more fish an old thread on ere explained you could hav like 50 babies so y breed them if you hav a small house and no room 4 more tanks. Dont mean to sound like im havin a go its just it all seems common sense to me, Im new to it all 2 but u hav to lern to walk before u can run and wiv no room last thing u wanna do is breed 4 more

 

[lilacamy931]

I wouldnt go about breeding them unless can house 70-100 fry when they are adult and separate all the male fry as they start to spar. You have to condition the pair with good food, once conditioned for correct amount of time, you then introduce the female in a chimney so the male can see her but not get to her. The female will become eggy and the male if interested will make a bubblenest and they display to each each other. When the correct amount of time has passed, you introduce them and if they are a good pair they will wrap and the eggs get planted in the bubble nest. The female is then taken away and male left to attend the eggs and offspring. Once the fry are free swimming horizontal the male needs to be taken away. You have to get special food for them, when they are old enough separated, and keep all their homes heated and frequently change all of their water as it wouldnt be feasible to add fitlers and heaters to all those tanks! The general consensus I think is all the work, time and money put into it wont gain you much back selling onto a store.

 

[TheSims3Dude]

Ok, you make a good point mobey, I guess I just really wanted to mate them, but maybe I should just stick with livebearers right?


Sorry bout that,
but I'm getting really nervous now cuz everyone is spazzing at me on both forums (I get major anxiety attacks)
and I feel really aweful right now, what do I do?

 

[The young one]

There's nothing to worry about, your male is in his own tank and the female is happy in your community tank.

I would stick with livebearers for now and then when your a bit more experienced with bettas maybe you could breed them.

 

[lilacamy931]

As the young one says hon. No one is spamming as such, we are jsut trying to ensure you know what your heading for if try to breed! It isnt as easy as livebearers

 

[TheSims3Dude]

Ya? Ok, I still really want to try, but maybe if I read up on them more, (I've bred livebearers for over 8 years) I wanted to try something new...