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September 29th, 2008
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| | Fish Helper
| female betta advice please
i have a 120litre community tank with guppys, platys, dwarf gouramis and a male betta. i bought on impulse today 4 lovely female bettas. the petstore said my male betta will be fine with them. can i just double check with you all that he was right as you know more about bettas than anyone ive come across xx | 
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September 29th, 2008
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| Hi helen,
Personally, I wouldn't put the females in the community tank. Bettas normally don't play well with others and I'd be afraid someone would get hurt or killed. Not to mention the mating ritual between a male and female can be violent.
I'd suggest you get them each a tank of their own and enjoy their individual beauty and personalities for what it can be without the stress or aggression.
Good luck. | 
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September 29th, 2008
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| i have 2 spare 30litre tanks, would 2 females in each be ok for a few days while i sort out a few more tanks? | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| You can divide the tanks and put 2 females in each tank...one on each side of the divider...good luck. | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| That's a good idea, if you divided them it would work out fine. 
Don't forget to post some pics soon!
edit: lol, Fishies-for-me and I were thinking alike. | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| cant post any pics yet, was burgled saturday night and had camera, phone, laptop etc stolen, as soon as ive replaced them il post some pics | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| Oh, that's terrible. At least no one was hurt, I hope. | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| no one hurt, god help the sods the did it tho lol | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| I'm sorry to hear about the burglery. I'm glad everyone is ok. | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| | Fish Keeper
| ah ha!! another iMPULSE betta buyer....
you'll fit in just fine!!  | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| lol, couldnt help it, never seen female bettas in my local store before and couldnt resist. luckily my partner is understanding lol | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| Moved thread to the Betta section.
Our forum is split up into different sections for different topics. On the main page, if you look at the largest sections (the one with bright blue highlit bars), you'll see "General" "Photos" "Freshwater" "Saltwater" etc... These will be further broken down into sub-sections.
If you've got a question about freshwater stuff, the best way to get answers is to start in the freshwater section, then look through the sub-sections, find the closest one (in this example, it was "Freshwater"-"Betta") and post your question there. There's also a "beginners" section, if you've got a number of simple questions you want to ask in one post.
And, Welcome to Fishlore, if I haven't already said so.  | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| Thank you for moving it, sds. | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| | Fish Helper
| sorry sds. im still gettin to grips with this site, il look more carefully in future | |
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September 29th, 2008
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| | Fish Mentor
| Be careful with the betta in withthe Dwarf gouramis... they are natural enemies. | |
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September 30th, 2008
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| touch wood they all get on, i do keep an eye out tho purely thru what ive read abt bettas. think ive been lucky with my betta tom, hes a bit of a softy and doesnt seem to mind the other fish. | |
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September 30th, 2008
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| Welcome to Fishlore!!!
I agree with the above suggestions,perhaps for now divided tanks for your females will work,I used to use divided tanks and for the most part there ok,but if one gets sick then the other isn't far behind usually.Better to have separate tanks if you can...
also sorry to hear of your break in,that must have been terribly disturbing  | |
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