How Many Betta's In A Tank

[ReMz]

Killudead...

Can you post all of these articles that you have found... or are you clinging to 1 or 2 things you have read on the internet?

"9.9 out of 10" ppl will disagree with you.... well..... If you think 99% of people that are knowledgeable and passionate about a subject are wrong, you MIGHT just be wrong.

You've gotten some very in-depth and informative responses. These people gave you the benefit of the doubt. I'm telling you that you are a moron.

Since I was overstocked with Bettas, & was not really interested in my last brood of about 120, I never bothered to seperate them.....

Ludwig.. .you have better things to do than defend an idiot on the forums.

I respect your seniority on these forums.... but please read what i have quoted and tell me you are truly an experienced fish keeper with even half a brain.

I said it.

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[bronzecat]

When I say overstocked, I merely mean that I had more than my current market could handle and did not mean that they were overcrowded (stressed)..... and that last brood.... the FISH spawned spontaneously.

LMAO......"Spawned spontaneously"?? Does this imply that you keep your males and females together?? I'd say 120 growing fry in a 3ft tank is overcrowded.

 

[newfishy]

remz, you made me giggle.

 

[ReMz]

i make myself laugh hysterically

 

[LauraFrog]

I just reread my last post and I realised that I left out something important. No flaming intended, so please don't take this the wrong way. It could be that I have it wrong, but this is coming from experience of person after person asking how you could keep two male bettas together. It seems that something about the 'fighting' in the name inflames the One-Upmanship Syndrome.

WHY would you want to keep two males in the same tank? This is a question that is asked unbelievably often, considering just how obvious it is that male bettas absolutely do not get on. It seems to me that people want to keep two males just to prove that they can. It appears to be egotistical, pompous stupidity of the highest degree.

It is so easy to house males using small tanks, individually or with dividers, that to go to the great effort required to keep two males together, at liberty, in the same aquarium seems - I'll say it again - STUPID. The vast majority of people who ask this question seem to want to keep the males together JUST so they can come back on here and say NER NER! I got two males in the same tank! They're still alive! You all said I couldn't do it and I did it anyway! I'm better than you! UP YOURS! (Yes, slightly exaggerated, but you get what I mean.)

If you are bored with normal tropical fishkeeping and you want a challenge, there are challenging things to do with fish and tanks that do not involve two fish or more being constantly stressed, miserable and on edge so that some human can prove their 'superiority' over people who work with the fish's natural tendencies instead of against them.

If you are really willing to build a huge megasystem of a tank, big enough to keep them both in, why on earth would you waste it with small fish, again largely to prove a point? I know that if I had a tank the size of a small room, I would not be stocking it with bettas.

And if you aren't - well instead of tempting fate, if you really want a challenge, wouldn't it be more rewarding to attempt a reef tank, or a cichlid community, or a special biotype that has meaning to you? Or a difficult aquascape like a paludarium, or successfully breeding a fish acknowledged as hard to spawn? If you get these right, it will achieve you respect and admiration on the forums, not flaming and ridicule for attempting something that is, quite frankly, stupid. If you want a challenge, please undertake one that does not compromise the welfare of the fish.

 

[LauraFrog]

Ha, my memory's going. At 14. Pathetic, huh?

Forgot to mention (yeah, I know, I know). Ludwig's fish have been replicated. When a number of young bettas, siblings or raised together since they were small fry, are left in the same tank they are often not aggressive. It seems to me that the tank is so overcrowded that the fish have accepted that none of them have any hope of eking out a territory. There is therefore no point to fighting for territory, or for fighting in general, so they don't fight.

Again, the oneupmanship, if you are willing to maintain such an overstocked tank personally I'd want to do the work to have malawis. Especially since IMO keeping bettas like that is cruel.

 

[carrera]

I just reread my last post and I realised that I left out something important. No flaming intended, so please don't take this the wrong way. It could be that I have it wrong, but this is coming from experience of person after person asking how you could keep two male bettas together. It seems that something about the 'fighting' in the name inflames the One-Upmanship Syndrome.

WHY would you want to keep two males in the same tank? This is a question that is asked unbelievably often, considering just how obvious it is that male bettas absolutely do not get on. It seems to me that people want to keep two males just to prove that they can. It appears to be egotistical, pompous stupidity of the highest degree.

It is so easy to house males using small tanks, individually or with dividers, that to go to the great effort required to keep two males together, at liberty, in the same aquarium seems - I'll say it again - STUPID. The vast majority of people who ask this question seem to want to keep the males together JUST so they can come back on here and say NER NER! I got two males in the same tank! They're still alive! You all said I couldn't do it and I did it anyway! I'm better than you! UP YOURS! (Yes, slightly exaggerated, but you get what I mean.)

If you are bored with normal tropical fishkeeping and you want a challenge, there are challenging things to do with fish and tanks that do not involve two fish or more being constantly stressed, miserable and on edge so that some human can prove their 'superiority' over people who work with the fish's natural tendencies instead of against them.

If you are really willing to build a huge megasystem of a tank, big enough to keep them both in, why on earth would you waste it with small fish, again largely to prove a point? I know that if I had a tank the size of a small room, I would not be stocking it with bettas.

And if you aren't - well instead of tempting fate, if you really want a challenge, wouldn't it be more rewarding to attempt a reef tank, or a cichlid community, or a special biotype that has meaning to you? Or a difficult aquascape like a paludarium, or successfully breeding a fish acknowledged as hard to spawn? If you get these right, it will achieve you respect and admiration on the forums, not flaming and ridicule for attempting something that is, quite frankly, stupid. If you want a challenge, please undertake one that does not compromise the welfare of the fish.

100% agree. Brilliantly put