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Published: 2011-02-17 01:41:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 2983; Favourites: 112; Downloads: 0
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How beautiful it would look in real world if male betta fish could swim together in one big fish tank without killing each other.Related content
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Well, there are wild betta types (not betta splendens) where they can be kept together. But they don't have the same sort of long finnage, so it's different. Your painting of them is very pretty even though in reality the territorialness would be off the scale in a real scenario like this!
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Thank you so much i wish the splendids could live together i'd have a big tank
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Haha me too. I'd have a 55 gallon full of them.
Honestly they're ridiculously adorable in giant tank environments with tons of space to explore. Before I got my oscar, I had a single betta in his 60 gallon tank by himself, and it was actually really neat seeing how he behaved in there vs in a little 5 gallon.
And female betta sororities seem neat.
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Oh wow how did he feel in a 60 gallon tank vs. a 5 gallon?
I had female betta sororities i had to seperate them all they
did was chase each other and nip each others fins it got me
so upset i put lots of plants and hiding places it didn't work.
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Also, sorry your sorority was a nipfest! I've always been afraid to try one because I know that even the females can be aggressive and territorial, and it largely comes down to the temperament of the fish you happen to get.
Likewise, I've always been too scared to have more than one gourami in a tank, even big tanks. Other people insist that trios work but clearly they don't work all the time.
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Yeah I will never have another female betta soroity I had to seperate them.
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I've only done females either in small, separate tanks, similar to how I house the males, or in community tanks with livebearers. Sometimes the latter works out great and sometimes the female tries to attack the adult livebearers, and I separate them as necessary. So, yeah, I hear you, they can be pretty darn aggressive. I think some people just get lucky.
It stinks that your betta sorority didn't work out, but it sounds like you did everything you could.
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Yes the female betta's are aggresive as well, I was disappointed thy didn't get a long in hir soroity tank.
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He seemed really happy, and like he spent a lot of time exploring. It was a little funny because he could get totally lost from view in there, but he'd also still rush to whatever side I was on when I started paying attention. He seemed zippier than in the 5 gallon, I guess... which isn't to say that I don't think a 5g is enough room, but it usually seems like they maybe don't get to do a lot of lunge-swimming. Which, some of them have such big fins that that's probably just as well.
And maybe I'm anthropomorphizing but it definitely looked like he was exploring and finding all sorts of neat areas in the tank, to a degree that isn't possible in a 5g. I mean, it's still not quite like being in a pond, but it was still a lot of space for him, and it was neat. If I ever get another huge tank for freshwater, I might let a betta live alone in it for a several months while the vegetation grows out.
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Aw he sounds like he had fun in his 60 galllon paradise tank exploring
In the wild they live in rice patties in China and Thialand.
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Yeah, I know! And Cambodia, too, I think. I've actually attended aquarium club meetings where people showed pictures from their trips where they went and tried collecting wild bettas (usually because they are interested in breeding wild strains & species not commonly found in American home aquariums).
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Who those sound like interesting photos of people trying to collect wild betta's someday i hope to breed some
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for those of you curious go to my YouTube account under Christina kaspar I have plenty videos of my community aquarium I've had this aquarium setup for about a year so go ahead and check out my videos
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Here is a link to one of Christina's videos youtu.be/CJqwtQYvqWE
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community aquarium look it up I have a 30 gallon setup with 2 males and 4 females it's not easy and it takes a lot of work
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I tried a female sorority tank plenty of plants hiding places in a 20 gallon tank with 5 females they were chasing each other biting each other taking pieces of fins off I had to sperate them it stinks. I wish i could do what you are doing with no problems do they chase or bite each other?
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I use Molly fore the barrier they focus on the mollies instead of each other but I haven't lost a single molly and the bettas they keep the Molly breeding down,mollies give live birth ,
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Oh I see, so the betta's focus on just watching the molly's and eating the baby molly's right?
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That is interestin would you have a video up on youtube?
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I just saw your videos I love the one of Prince and Duchess they are so beautiful!
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i saw this and instantly thought of this video i saw
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Wow thanks fort sharing the video the same colored betta fish but they should not be in the same tank I hope the person separated them
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in the description he said he had a separate tank for one of the bettas and onlyput them together for a few mins lol i just thought it was so like your picture
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Oh okay yes they loked just like the picture thanks again
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I love their expressions! And yes, that is my wish indeed
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Thank you so much!
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i've acually seen that before XD to male bettas were just swimin together in a big tank XD
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I agree thats why I have a virtual aquarium filled with bettas..lol
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That would be cool. But these guys look like they still have lots of attitude.
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so beautiful! if only they really did get along like that......i would have a tank full of them
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I too would have a tank full if i only could i surely would
How is your Betta Merlin?
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he's doing good...he is really to himself and never bothers my other fishies 
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Oh you have Merlin in with some smaller fish? I love when my betta's swim up to me and will look at me
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well... not exactly. he's in with some cory-cats, pleccos, and goldfish
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I didn't know they get along with goldfish
I'd like to get a goldfish too
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goldfish release a lot of amonia...i only have 2 and both are bigger than my beta
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Really gee I did't know
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