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[mrspickless]

I am totally new, and have made an almighty cock up. I went to my local fish guy ( A local vet) and walked out with a betta male and female. Nor once did he tell me that I should not have these together!! They have been in the tank for about four or five days and they were fine.. but today he is chasing her around like mad and am really worried about her. I want to take her out of the tank and take her back to the shop. What is the rule with Bettas? Can I have two females? The other problem is that I am slowly introducing fish and have found that they male is less bothered by other types of fish, unlike the female who was a bit aggressive to start with. I have guppies as well.. probably totally incompatible!!! Have very little information to go on over here

 

[techen]

I am totally new, and have made an almighty cock up. I went to my local fish guy ( A local vet) and walked out with a betta male and female. Nor once did he tell me that I should not have these together!! They have been in the tank for about four or five days and they were fine.. but today he is chasing her around like mad and am really worried about her. I want to take her out of the tank and take her back to the shop. What is the rule with Bettas? Can I have two females? The other problem is that I am slowly introducing fish and have found that they male is less bothered by other types of fish, unlike the female who was a bit aggressive to start with. I have guppies as well.. probably totally incompatible!!! Have very little information to go on over here

Watch the swear, Can get yo banned. Size of tank?

 

[Nightfall]

No, you can't house two girls together. Girls in smaller groups will have aggression issues. If you want a sorority of females, you'll need 6 or so to keep the peace, plus a large and heavily planted tank to ensure they can escape any bullying.

Be VERY careful what you put with the male! Aggressive fish (like gourami) will butt heads with him, and small, fast fish (like tetras) will nip his fins. Males are very slow moving because of all that finnage and can't escape aggressive, fast fish. Guppies are totally unsuitable, you're right. If you search topics here you'll find lots of suggestions of suitable tank mates. My bettas share their tanks with one siamese flying fox and one bristlenose cat each (both are algae eating species) and they're all very happy together. The bettas will chase the fast foxes around, but the foxes seem to relish the chase and they mostly leave the cats alone, but they can easily outswim them anyway.