Koi Lo wrote:


See above. It's not misinformation where really aggressive bettas are
concerned and smaller tanks with few or no hiding places. Don't assume
everyone has a 30L or larger planted tank.
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Being that this has been explained over and over and over....
That the tank needs to be large enough, well planted and that each
individual personality allows it, no one is talking about a small, bare
tank.
No one needs to assume it it has to be the size tank YOU used either.
Seems to me you're getting overly aggressive males.
If you have had a large enough tank and this many probs, I'd look into
finding new stock.
You also said in one of your posts about the male building his
nests....
If a male is in a filtered, heated tank and with 3 or more females
(proper size and dechor of course) there shouldn't be any spawning
behavior going on anyway.
You also run into trouble trying to house only one female and one male
per tank.
They have to form a hierarchy which can't be done properly with only a
pair.
Occasionly you will find a couple of placid Bettas and they're fine.
But to say the male will always shred a female, stress her, or kill
her, whatever it is you're saying today (this does change per post) and
that they shouldn't ever be housed together is simply wrong. It just
is.
I bet the entire problem you have experienced is not enough females and
a tank that was too small.
Besides....if you had overly aggressive males (rare with Splendens) you
should have never tried to house them together.