Three Questions

[fuman_chica]

I don't know if I'm stupid for asking three unrelated questions in one topic, but I don't feel like making three seperate posts, so please remember that there are three questions, not just one!


Question 1:
I have had two female bettas kept seprately for about two weeks, maybe three weeks now. I just bought one more female today, and I would like to put all of them together in a 10 gallon tank. I have never had females before these, and I don't know how to introduce them. Right now I have one of the girls (who was already in the 10 gallon) still in the 10 gallon with two of the other girls floating getting aclimated to the temp. They are all flaring at each other and the one who was in the 10 gallon has been swimming around the two that are floating.

Can I just release the two girls in with the one that is already in there, or do I need to do anything else? I don't want them to fight...that's the thing.


Question 2:
Like I said, I bought a new female today. But I'm not sure what kind she is. To me, she looks like she's PK but I don't want to say that she is if she isn't. So, I have a small video that you can watch to see if you think she's PK or VT or something else. She is the big one in the cup, on the far left side of the video. It should be her, a smaller one that looks almost exactly like her that's loose in the tank, and a white/peach one in a cup. Sorry it is kind of unclear. I'll try to get pictures of her when my daughter wakes up (she sleeps in the room with the fish).

just click on this picture to see the video




Question 3:
Okay, I also got a new boy, and I noticed that his fins are kinda curled. I was wondering if there was any thing I can do (besides clean water and some salt) to help make them look normal, or if he will always have curled fins. I have two pictures of it.

Thank you guys for any help.

 

[BWBettas]

a sun bathe may do him well... it worked for my CT when his rays curled up

Bret

 

[Taridan]

Q 1: You're going to need to get the girl thats been in the 10 gallon in a cup and float her like you are the new ones... while she's in the cup, re-arrange everything you have in the tank. I had three girls in my 30 gallon, and even with full re-arrangements, the two that previously knew eachother ended up ganging up on the 3rd... so, if you see too much ganging up get ready to remove one or both.

Q 2: Its hard for me to tell, as I've only seen VT in real life. Her anal fin has a bit of the VT point to it, but the spread of her tail fin is nicer than what I'm used to seeing... I'm thinking either a good quality VT or a Vt plaket mix? Others can probably answer this one better.

Q 3: Sun bathing might help, His tail looked a bit clamped to me, not sure though... the other thing I've heard of people doing is cutting their fish's tails to promote fin re-growth, but I've not had any experience with this.

 

[fuman_chica]

Yeah, I moved and added new plants and cup (for a cave for now until I can buy one) in the tank and let the two girls out. One of the girls in the cups (one that I had but was in a seperate thing) seems to be taking charge. She's smaller than the other two also. But she swims in circles around the other girls. One of the other girls will come up to her and try to advance at her and she just starts swimming around them and they leave her alone. I think she makes them dizzy.

But they seem to be doing good so far. I have containers ready for them if they do start fighting so I can seperate them right away.

And for the boy, what exactly do I do for sunbathing? How long do I have him in the sun? Do I put him outside in the sun, or just in a window where the sun comes in? There is NO WAY I will attempt to cut his fins. I am no where near confident enough to do that.

Thank you two for helping.

Anybody else who has any help with questions two and three, I'd appriciate it. If sunbathing is all I can do for the boy, that's fine. But I'd still like to hear opinions on the girl's tail type.