Single female betta in community, your experiences?

Has anyone here kept a single female betta in a busy community tank?

My daughter and I have 3 tanks between us. She has 2 10G tanks that house a single male betta and a single mystery snail.

My tank is 38G and a community tank. Unfortunately my crowntail male Shredder got horribly fin nipped by my rummynose tetras and died in quarantine.

My daughter recently fell in love with female bettas (thanks to KG tropics on YouTube). She fell in love with a little painted one at a LFS. For 3 days we went to the sorority tank and watched her and she was very passive in there (some very obviously did not get along). And my sister (with my permission) bought her for my daughter for Xmas. My rummynose have never bothered any other fish, including guppies. It has been 5 days and I've only seen her flare once.

Now she is ALL over the tank. Explores EVERYTHING. So much more active. Is that normal? All of our boys are all like ' i found my spot I'm going sit here and look good '


Pictures are hard because she's FAST compared to her long finned counterparts.

 

Yes, and she looked actually similar to her. It worked out for 5 months, but I had to take the livebearers out so I could thoroughly deworm them while still deworming the main tank. After around 3-4 weeks I added the livebearers back, turned the lights off, and went to sleep. In the morning 1 female guppy was dead, male guppy was missing half his tail, and platies fins were shredded. I don't know if she snapped because she forgot them, but the crazy thing is there were Amano shrimp in the tank with her that she didn't even attempt to attack.

 

Yes, and she looked actually similar to her. It worked out for 5 months, but I had to take the livebearers out so I could thoroughly deworm them while still deworming the main tank. After around 3-4 weeks I added the livebearers back, turned the lights off, and went to sleep. In the morning 1 female guppy was dead, male guppy was missing half his tail, and platies fins were shredded. I don't know if she snapped because she forgot them, but the crazy thing is there were Amano shrimp in the tank with her that she didn't even attempt to attack.

That's my fear. My crowntail could never catch the other fish to hurt them even if he wanted to. But that ended up that the other fish could chase HIM.

We do have a divider for the boys in my daughter's tanks and a big breeder box for the 38G that could be set up in a jiffy if need be. My daughter is also getting a 20L for Xmas which is why I agreed to the female.

 

I have a female Veiltail in my 55g community. Nobody seems even the least aggressive. I have to scoop her in a fry box at feeding time though. She will eat more than anyone else if I dont.

 

I have a female Veiltail in my 55g community. Nobody seems even the least aggressive. I have to scoop her in a fry box at feeding time though. She will eat more than anyone else if I dont.

Poppy is also a veil tail (at least that's what she was sold to us as). And she tries to get all the food too. She likes to feed at the bottom right now though so the other fish get to go first (except the cories)

 

I was just letting her go for a few days. She didn't realize feeding time at first. When she did I thought she was seriously going to die that night she was so huge. She constantly is hunting for any kind of food. Its easy to get her in the box. She just swims up top and when I lower the box in she just gets pulled in and I dont even think she cares. She just tries to get the food as it goes by...lol When I let her out she starts scouting.

 

Make sure you've got a 10 gallon setup you could put her into at the first sign of trouble, but if all looks good, it probably is! Being active is a good thing

 

Your Veiltail must be the same color as mine, I was thinking of naming her Poppy.

 

Make sure you've got a 10 gallon setup you could put her into at the first sign of trouble, but if all looks good, it probably is! Being active is a good thing

We can move my daughter's boys into one of her 10G (set up the divider) and give Poppy the other 10G or put her into an XL breeder in my tank if there's trouble. My daughter is getting a 20L for Xmas and we will be breaking down 1 of her 10G so that will also be a long term option.

 

Well, mine is a female. She is very peaceful in a very busy community tank. Fish are buzzing all over, sometimes annoying but she has not harmed anyone. She is very sweet and peaceful, but I would say it depends. Have a backup plan just in case this hits the fan.