Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens)

DGC: that's good :)

FGS flying high: that is true, though with bettas, you always want to try and figure out his personality, agressive ones can tear tankmates to shreds. I once put my first betta into a nice heated 10 gallon with some tank mates, and that didn't work out. Becuase I didn't think of a back up plan, I ended up having to divide the tank so he could stay in a heated clean tank and still be seperated from the fishies he seemed set on killing.
 
JK_Fish said:
DGC: that's good :)

FGS flying high: that is true, though with bettas, you always want to try and figure out his personality, agressive ones can tear tankmates to shreds. I once put my first betta into a nice heated 10 gallon with some tank mates, and that didn't work out. Becuase I didn't think of a back up plan, I ended up having to divide the tank so he could stay in a heated clean tank and still be seperated from the fishies he seemed set on killing.
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I knew someone once who tried putting a couple zebra danios in with their male betta. The first danio didn't even have time to swim. Literally just as it hit the water it was floating sideways away from a rather angry betta. The second survived a little longer (a few minutes) only because the betta seemed to want to make sure the first was actually dead. :22_yikes:

Granted it was a betta bowl instead of an actual tank but that was a VERY aggressive betta.
 
thanks for the replys, he has got some other friends (juvi guppys and swords) perhaps i should get him a girl friend.

the only reason we got him was he was the only fish in the pet shop that came to the glass and flaired at us, i love fish with attitude.
 
Lol, "girlfriends" in the same tank are just as much of a threat as another guy, if not more so.

Bettas with attitude are so adorable :)
 
It really depends on the personality, as others have said, so if he's pretty chilled he might be alright with tank mates and MAYBE even a girlfriend.. You never know.

Oh, and watch out, he may eat/kill those juvie guppys and swords :D
 
Never, ever house male & female betta splendens together. That is just asking for at the least, constantly stressed fish with torn fins - at the most, badly injured or dead fish.

This also goes for two male betta splendens.


RE: the mirror
if you've got decorations/plants/wood in the tank that helps break line of sight, leaving the mirror COULD be okay... but personally I wouldn't do it. I kept a hand mirror next to my betta's tank and would turn it around for maybe an hour, tops. The tank was planted so he would occasionally forget after swimming away only to catch sight and go charging at the glass again.

This betta was a beautiful delta-tail (very nearly half-moon) which had chronic issues with blowing out his tail fin... I stopped using the mirror because it obviously exacerbated the problem. Another caution for betta owners & mirror applications.
 
okay thanks fishcat, thats the info i am looking for, just out of interest sake how do they bread if the female wants to kill the male all the time, wait dumb question sounds like my wife and I
 
:lol: yeah I know what you mean...

Not quite sure how things work in the wild, but normally breeders set up the female in a nearby tank where the male can see her from a distance. This will help to determine if the two fish are compatible (flirting/displaying/showing interest). Sometimes the male will start blowing his bubble nest just from seeing her from far away. I have read where they place the female in a glass cylinder/jar/hurricane glass in the same tank as the male (but obviously protected) to help stimulate him to build his nest. If the behavior looks good, the glass is lifted and the female released so they can mate. This is always done under close supervision... after spawning the male will begin to show aggression to the female (defending the eggs) and she must be removed to her own tank. The male tends to the eggs/fry, picking the ones that fall out of the nest and placing them back inside.
 
Wow thanks very much, I must try this
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