Question on keeping bettas

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Southernwind

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Can one keep a male betta in a tank with two females? The tank is a 10 gallon well cycled tank. Can one have two males in there or is the tank too small for them to each have their own 'territory'? I would like to get a betta or two and I'm not sure if I can/should. I have 5 zebra danios in the tank and three raspboras. What combination of bettas, if any, can I add to this tank?
 

FreshyFresh

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Since there's 8 fish in there already, I wouldn't add more than one male betta.
 

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^+1 I agree that it doesn't seem that you have enough room to add another fish.

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I had a male and a female in my 75, for a bit. I had a lot of hiding places for them. When they did confront each other it was brief and just a little flaring and they separated. I took the male out when I added more females. The reason for this was I put a male in a twenty gallon with two females, just for a few hours while I worked on their tanks and the beat him up bad enough he died a day later. The moral of the story, bettas are unpredictable sometimes it could work, other times no. I wouldn't try two males in a small tank, though. My 75 is way more heavily planted and decorated now and I still wouldn't try it. I could see it working in a six foot or eight foot tank that was very heavily planted and decorated but the last time I posted that question, the general negative consensus was one tank, one male, no matter how big.
 
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