40 l betta sorority

Heres a pic of my betta girls tank. theres only 4 bettas in there at the moment. They are loving it. needing a canopy still.

 

Hi there @ksmith

Please get more dense plants in the tank as well as some floating plants for the surface. You will find there will be less bullying as well as the shy girl will relax and loose her stress stripes. Also add one more girl to help with the aggression levels. I had 4 girls with constant drama until I got my 5th girl and the fighting got less. The main thing is that there has to be more cover for them at all levels of the tank.

If you find one girl is to aggressive then you will have to swop her out. I had to swop 2 girls out as well until the peace was reached.

 

ja, it seems like everything is fine then they go into PMS hour just after feeding and its a chasing, nipping free for all. i want to have at least 6 girls in there. gonna go visit Charles sometime soon....
im on the look out for some nice floating plants. i dont want anything thats gonna die quickly and pollute the water.
i just look at a plant and it starts to die....

 

@ksmith, I found a nice LONG artificial plant that 'acts' as a floating plant, all my girls (7 of them) have little sleeping stations in there that they go to when the lights go off, and my one shy girl always hangs around there, at the base of that plant we have 4 thick (also artificial) plants and it keeps them nice and settled.. maybe try and find a long one they aren't too hard to find and it saves having to get real ones, I am also the worst at keeping plants lol. I started out with 5 girls and my (now) shy girl was a little devil chasing the rest, after adding another 2 they seem to have settled and all get along quite well.

Our long plant is at the back corner and covers half of the tank as a "floating" plant, the rest of the tank is pretty clear for them to swim around.. I'd try something like that It gives the shyest girl somewhere to hide and gives them all somewhere nice to sleep

HTH!

 

that sounds like a good idea. im gonna look out for a plant like that! i know the bullying will spread out more when theres more girls in there. so ja, i hope you have some pretty ones for me. im looking for pastels and a solid red.

 

Hmm.. I remember @Charles having a few pastel boys, I can't remember if there were any girls though.. I'm also looking for a pastel So pretty! Not too sure about solid reds but I know @HennieRoux has some Cambodian reds, I think Charles may have too but we may have taken the last one lol.. Here's our girl from Hennie..



Bad pic, doesn't do her justice but she's pretty We have another similar to her but DT.. One from each Charles and Hennie lol.. I'm sure they'll let you know if they have!

 

Hi, I still have two Cambodian red female's, they are STD females. One is about 6 months old and the other is about 1 year old and quite large.

 

Do you have any pastel girls @Charles? We're going to come up in a couple of weeks

 

Hi @Cookie, yes I counted about 10 odd quickly just now. Ranging from pastel green, blue, yellow-ish, fleshy type, light pink-ish... The coral blue 20 000k light is a little misleading but these are the basic colours I have and some variations of it. HTH.

 

Oooh.. would it be possible to save a green one? If they look anything like your boy then I think I may die! lol.. Also looking at getting a pastel boy

 

@Cookie, sure no problem, I will reserve you a female and matching male. I usually work on first come, first serve basis but I will make an exception for you this time since you stay far away.

 

Awesome Thanks so much! Will choose another female too, and maybe get a couple more also.. can't resist with all your pretty girls, and with this boy we'll have no room for any more lmao

 

@Cookie, that green and white one of mine has inherited the marble gene... he is now almost completely green with some black edging on his fins.

 

@ksmith, it's true what you said about the PMS thing, one moment every thing is honky dolly and the next all hell breaks loose....lol. Hence the name Siamese FIGHTING fish....lol. How is your girls doing?