[AquaticLife] Betta Question
Paula, I have a male betta in each of my 55 gallon community tanks. They both do fine with the other fish. As a matter of fact I had to move a gourami out because he was picking on the betta. I know those two types shouldn’t be mixed but I had a tank start splitting and had no choice. After a new tank finished cycling I moved the gourami. As for play thing, I’ve heard they play with marbles but mine never have. My sister will put a very small ball of aluminum foil in with elephant fish and they play with that. Maybe a betta would too. Oh, I found out the female bettas were a lot more aggressive in community tanks. Maybe this helps, some.. Traci Swatek-Rice Hazmat Technician DMOS5 manufacturing Texas Instruments
I have another male Betta in a two gallon with two White Clouds - he doesn’t bother them at all.
I have another five gallon Eclipse tank with a male CrownTail in it. He is so handsome but tends to hang around in the plants so I barely get to see him. I added some more plants from my 55 gallon recently and evidently transfered some snails along with them. Now he is terrorizing one particular snail. He keeps mouthing it (it is too big for his mouth) until it lets free of the side of the tank and then he bops it around the tank like a soccer ball! I had hoped to add a couple Otto’s in there and maybe three White Clouds but now after seeing his behavior with this snail, I wonder if he won’t just change his aggression to them? I hate having this nice looking tank with just him in it, but it just seems like he is an aggressive guy. I have another two gallon tank I could transfer him to but I would feel bad moving him from a five gallon to a two gallon - I know, I am transferring emotions!
Are there any “toys” you can buy/make for fish tanks? He really seems to be having fun tormenting this snail (and I am starting to feel bad for the snail and I don’t like snails!). I have gave him shelled peas but he just eats them. And speaking of peas, when they say to “shell” it, do they mean from the pod or the actual pea itself? Those “shells” on the actual pea can be hard to get off without squishing it.
I am cycling another 10 gallon right now (fishless) and had wanted to get another male Betta for that tank but now I have changed my mind. I know that they are fighting fish but I guess I didn’t know that they would fight any fish!
A few weeks ago, I purchased two female Betta’s for my 55 gallon community tank. Now I notice one of them is harrassing some of my Zebra Danio’s (long and short finned). Luckily there is enough room and plants to run and hide in there.
These Betta’s are gorgeous but are that really that nasty in general?
Paula in Monroe, Michigan
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