yet another betta question!

I have 4 Zebra Danios in with my male betta and they have all been doing fine...
Just a thought! Good luck!

$27 for a female beta? That seems just a bit outrageous... they have them for $5 at one of the fish stores around me.

It's not really a good idea to house males and females together. Even betta breeders only keep them together long enough for them to spawn, then the female is removed to recover from her ordeal.

You can house multiple females together without issues most of the time, but even then you can sometimes have a problem female that needs to be removed.

$27 for a female betta is insane! They are usually cheaper since everyone wants the males instead.

Some people have said that if you have a number of them, like a 3-1 ratio, that they'll be fine. But multiple males or a 1-1 ratio will result in dead fish.

Not experience, just from reading the internet.

I would never put males with females unless I am spawning them. Just not a good idea. And I agree with the others....$27.00 for a female betta is absolutely a raw deal....the only time I would pay that kind of money for a female would be for high quality breeding stock. Most of the females you see at the LFSs are old and wouldn't last long after you get them home anyway, so to pay that kind of money for them wouldn't be very practical.

You could try an African dwarf frog...make very sure you don't get a clawed frog..it would eat your betta. They look pretty similar to someone who doesn't know the difference......but easiest way to tell the difference is, ADFs have webbing between the toes of their front feet....Clawed frogs do NOT.

Otocinclus are good companions..and a couple of cory cats would do as well. Panda corys are very pretty and would be an interesting addition to your tank. Both of these fish would do better to have at least one other of thier species in the tank with them. The betta might peck at them a little at first, but my experience has been that after the initial introduction, they pretty much leave them alone.

you might try taking the betta out for 2-3 days while your new fish get acclimated, rearranging decorations, and then re-introducing the betta.

Anything over $8 or so for a female betta seems like robbery. Anabantids aren't really known for their gentlemanly manner towards females, either... You probably wouldn't have much luck- especially at $27 per female.

Snails, frogs, otocinclus, and cories may work. What have you tried that has not worked out?

Yip, males and females together can be bad. Also, for everyone freaking out about the price, she lives in Australia and if I recall correctly she lives a bit away from the nearest LFS, so it may simply be the exchange, plus a monopoly kind of deal.

Harlock said:

for everyone freaking out about the price, she lives in Australia and if I recall correctly she lives a bit away from the nearest LFS, so it may simply be the exchange, plus a monopoly kind of deal.

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Well that makes more sense. Geeze though, what if petsmart sold single bettas for almost thirty bucks!?!?!

Hi,
My betta is in a 10g as well... tankmates are 4 otos, 3 yamato shrimp, and 1 glowlite tetra (the other tetras in the school have gradually died over the last few months - betta wasn't added to the tank until there was only 1 left).

Males and females together isn't a good thing. There are some obvious ones to NOT put in with bettas - fancy guppies, neon tetras - fin nippers mainly.

my betta certainly seems fine with his mates. If you add mates though, just keep a close watch - as you well know, each betta has their own personality, and yours may want to remain a loner!