Betta question

Nikki wrote:
What does your male think of her? Is there a big size difference between
them? you still have your male dont you. I have put a lot of bettas in the
tank with no quarantine, been fine so far. I did not know walmart kept their
females in bowls, petsmart puts their in tanks, but petco keep them in bowls
also.
she sounds pretty,
Nik



I just picked up a really nice light-turqouise female betta this pm.
She's about 1.25 inches and seems to being enjoying the new home from
the cramped little plastic bowl she was in at the Walmart store.

No quarantine took place...just slow acclimating her to the new water
and hope for the best. Not showing any signs of stress, finnage all
out on point, checking the 'hood out. Eating sun-dried shrimp as I
type this. Hoping for the best.

Hi Nikki..!..

I lost the male about a month ago. It developed a pine cone affect
where his scales jutted outward and he lost his color. He died in
quaratine. My guess was something intestinal.

So for now she's by herself. Once my platy babes are mature enough to
determine sex, I have a new neighbor that would like some. She wants to
start the hobby again (after coming over and seeing my tank all full of
life. =)

At present, the largest fish my 55 is a bala shark...he's growing like a
weed ..just under 4 inches. Doesn't bother a sole. So the babies
wonder all about the tank, from top to bottom, with no fear save man.
They're all under half an inch now.

If female bettas can be content living among their own sex, I'd be
content with just the females. Has anyone kept only female bettas for
long periods of time?

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"Nikki" wrote in message
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What does your male think of her? Is there a big size difference between
them? you still have your male dont you. I have put a lot of bettas in the
tank with no quarantine, been fine so far. I did not know walmart kept
their females in bowls, petsmart puts their in tanks, but petco keep them
in bowls also.
she sounds pretty,
Nik
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The Wal*Mart stores here keep them in the plastic shipping "bowls" or cups
with tops. There is a hole in the top for feeding and air exchange. The
boy working there told me they are no longer allowed to feed the fish. I
suppose they allow those not sold to starve to death. The Plecos were like
skeletons......
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KL....
Aquariums since 1952.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
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""[-=LÈGIÖN=-]"" wrote in message
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If female bettas can be content living among their own sex, I'd be content
with just the females. Has anyone kept only female bettas for long
periods of time?
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Yes, and they got along ok. A nip here and there but otherwise they lived
in relative peace.
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KL....
Aquariums since 1952.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
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""[-=LÈGIÖN=-]"" wrote in message
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Nikki wrote:
What does your male think of her? Is there a big size difference between
them? you still have your male dont you. I have put a lot of bettas in
the tank with no quarantine, been fine so far. I did not know walmart
kept their females in bowls, petsmart puts their in tanks, but petco keep
them in bowls also.
she sounds pretty,
Nik



I just picked up a really nice light-turqouise female betta this pm.
She's about 1.25 inches and seems to being enjoying the new home from
the cramped little plastic bowl she was in at the Walmart store.

No quarantine took place...just slow acclimating her to the new water
and hope for the best. Not showing any signs of stress, finnage all
out on point, checking the 'hood out. Eating sun-dried shrimp as I
type this. Hoping for the best.

Hi Nikki..!..

I lost the male about a month ago. It developed a pine cone affect where
his scales jutted outward and he lost his color. He died in quaratine.
My guess was something intestinal.
So for now she's by herself. Once my platy babes are mature enough to
determine sex, I have a new neighbor that would like some. She wants to
start the hobby again (after coming over and seeing my tank all full of
life. =)
At present, the largest fish my 55 is a bala shark...he's growing like a
weed ..just under 4 inches. Doesn't bother a sole. So the babies wonder
all about the tank, from top to bottom, with no fear save man. They're all
under half an inch now.

If female bettas can be content living among their own sex, I'd be content
with just the females. Has anyone kept only female bettas for long
periods of time?


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I have kept females by them self and they been fine. I had one of my females
in with some gouramis and loaches for quite some time, a couple of weeks ago
I added a male and they seem fine together. I also have a ten gl divided
three ways with Plexiglas with a male in one part, a female in another and a
betta fry who is about half way grown in the other part.
sorry about your male, I had the same thing happen to my female.
I am thinking about setting up a all shark tank, think that will be neat, I
have a RTS who don't seem to like no fish at all, I read the other day that
RTS are minnows (sp?) I did not know that.
What color is your platy that had babies, I have a set of sunset and a set
of micky mouse, i found a baby from the sunset in the tank one day and you
can tell what it is because its orange, but the following week i seen a lot
of babies, i dipped them out and they are not that same color so i am
thinking they are from the blue platy, but they have no color yet they dont
look much different then the fancy guppy fry right now. What did your babies
look like the first week?
Nik

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"Nikki" wrote in message
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What does your male think of her? Is there a big size difference between
them? you still have your male dont you. I have put a lot of bettas in
the tank with no quarantine, been fine so far. I did not know walmart
kept their females in bowls, petsmart puts their in tanks, but petco keep
them in bowls also.
she sounds pretty,
Nik
===============
The Wal*Mart stores here keep them in the plastic shipping "bowls" or cups
with tops. There is a hole in the top for feeding and air exchange. The
boy working there told me they are no longer allowed to feed the fish. I
suppose they allow those not sold to starve to death. The Plecos were
like skeletons......
--
KL....
Aquariums since 1952.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö ~~~~ }((((({*

They don't feed them? humm, I don't know what to say, other then no wonder
they die so often when people bring them home.
The best set up I found was petsmart because they were in a filtered tank,
however they did not look to good to me so who knows maybe they are better
separate at the stores, unlike other fish female bettas go though a process
of figuring out who is boss and that can take a good week, I guess them
going though that twice, once at the store then again when someone gets them
home...is not good for them.
Nik

"Nikki" wrote in message
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"Köi-Lö" $##$$@$##$$.#$$ wrote in message
The Wal*Mart stores here keep them in the plastic shipping "bowls" or
cups with tops. There is a hole in the top for feeding and air exchange.
The boy working there told me they are no longer allowed to feed the
fish. I suppose they allow those not sold to starve to death. The
Plecos were like skeletons......
~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö ~~~~ }((((({*

They don't feed them? humm, I don't know what to say, other then no wonder
they die so often when people bring them home.

That's what the young man said that works in that dept. He's forbidden to
feed them and they keep the thing locked so no one else can feed them
either. There's a board of some kind with an actual lock on it that must be
unlocked so they can see the fish or remove the dead ones. Judging by some
of the skeletons I saw and fuzzy corpses I don' think they remove many of
the dead ones. :-( I avoid the pet section when I go there now. It gets
me too upset.......

The best set up I found was petsmart because they were in a filtered tank,
however they did not look to good to me so who knows maybe they are better
separate at the stores, unlike other fish female bettas go though a
process of figuring out who is boss and that can take a good week, I guess
them going though that twice, once at the store then again when someone
gets them home...is not good for them.

I agree. The poor little critters suffer a lot of stress between their
breeder and their final home.
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KL....
Aquariums since 1952.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
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[-=LÈGIÖN=-] wrote:
Thanks for hanging around the aquaria groups. It will be noisy here
from time to time, relative to the aquaria/pond/garden wars with
certain posters as targets, including myself.


Your postings are valuable us all.


Thanks.
I have to do what I can to save the poor Bettas living in cold jars!
Sheesh.
Some folks just want to argue.
I just like telling the facts.

Köi-Lö wrote:


Besides, we are not arguing over the morality of keeping fish, but on how
best to keep them. A larger tank will always be better.

This I agree with. But nothing can be better than a fish's or animal's
natural habitat for the general welfare of the animal/fish/bird and it's
quality of life. A prime example are the cageless zoos and the reasons for

Ok....but you just said in another post that Bettas are fine bowls or
jars.
They aren't.

Victor Martinez wrote:


Let's take a simple and common example, shall we? Cardinal tetras. In
the wild they have to forrage for food, escape predators, and then
suffocate in the dry season when their habitat dries up. In my little
tank they have no predators, get food twice a day and they have a life
expentance of several years.

I think it's dangerous to make a generalization like that across species
as different as fish and mammals. For many species, living in the wild
is a daily struggle for survival.
In general, I am against imprisonment of higher species for our amusement.

Oh Victor....GREAT example. Cardinals (neons too)!
In the wild, they are considred "annual" fish. This is because they
only live about a year, IF they don't get eaten or die of disease.
However, in a tank they live for many years.
Can't even compare.

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.