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Namias, they will kill each other eventually. There are lots of debates when it comes to bettas, but few will disagree that you can't keep males and females together without eventual trouble. You might not see the nipping—you'd just find a destroyed tail or dead betta one morning.

Mine books and film for your favourite character names! My bettas are Delirium (from Sandman) and Sigmund (as in Freud). In the past I've had Shelmerdine, Bonthrop and Orlando...

Have you tried daily WCs of 50% over a week? You probably need to give the fin rot treatment more of a chance. I'm currently finding that daily WCs and a very low dose of Melafix are working wonders on Sigmund, who was fin-nipped last week.

Hi Namias, Welcome to the forum. First things first: male and female fighting fish should never be housed together. You need to separate them asap. The only time they can be housed together is temporarily, for the purposes of breeding — but that takes specialist knowledge and care. Move one to...

No one has suggestions on what kind of microrasbora and how many?

*edited to make the first post clearer

Hi guys, Just bought a new Juwel 54L (approx. 14/15G) tank. It's planted, and I've moved the fish from an old 30L tank in: five kuhli loaches and Sigmund the betta. There's probably snails too. Suggestions on new additions? I'd like to try micro-rasbora (e.g. chilli rasbora)—are they hardy? I...

He looks amazing to me!

This one looks kind of cool though (6G): http://www.seapets.co.uk/products/aquarium-supplies/aquariums/glass-aquariums/betta-aquarium-23-litres.html

I *love* three, but they're all pretty gorgeous. Sorry, that's not a critique; I just liked looking.

I like his name!

Good god, it's depressing reading the product reviews for that "tank". :/

Ask him for photographic proof!

I had six glowlights in my 10G with a betta, and they nipped him until I had to shift them to another tank.

She's just a kid whose dumb parents paid for her video to be promoted. Isn't she 14 or 15? Give her a break. But yes, that 'tank' is dreadful.

It's one one white spot—so maybe fungus?

Any thoughts on the betta's white spot? I think it's getting better, but not so much.

Four days—and no loach deaths! Yay! Though my betta, Delirium, has one raised white spot on him. I dosed the tank with Myxazin for two days when I first added the loaches and switched to sand (I know I should've quarantined, but I don't have a spare tank or filter/heater). Since I've noticed...

My driftwood/bogwood has a hole in it, and I can see all their tales out one end all and their heads out another. <3 I'll let you know how it all goes.

Sand done! And, stupidly, restocked kuhlis (I should have waited till after I'd switched gravel for sand, but I didn't think it through). But they're all doing okay...this far. Geez, the water takes a long time to clear even after rinsing the sand... Also: I tried to do a gravel-sand mix (as in...

AND SO begins the switch to sand—this evening!

That does need researching. Come on, Science! That's really interesting. Nope, 10G is my biggest tank at the moment. Kuhlis were the one fish recommended to me multiple times on this forum for small tanks (e.g. 10Gs), because their bioload is so small.

That's a good idea. I hope you have more luck next time!! Thanks for the advice, Mowbz. Very helpful! I thought the oxygen thing was BS. I'll keep an eye out for pygmies.

With pandas, I remember the first time around I spent a couple of hours acclimatising them. The LFS said I'd probably done so for too long and cut down their oxygen intake (which, in hindsight, didn't make sense—I was adding tank water to their bag). The second time I spent more like 45 minutes...

Thank you. I just wish I knew what had happened, and whether it's safe to restock. Or will they just keep dying off?

Well, they're usually pretty active and gregarious. I see a lot of them as it is (which is, of course, a good thing). The fourth one (that was hiding) was dead today. It had lost a lot of its colour and was skinny in comparison to the others. I don't know what's going on. :(

I'm pretty sure there are no more than four...but who knows! Would they do better with sand, do you think? I was planning to restock this week, because the LFS has black kuhlis in now and a sale on...

I thought Swim Shady was witty!

The giant looks like he has barely enough water to submerse in. :(

A fourth kuhli reappeared, presumably from hiding! He must have been pretty sneaky! That's something, at least.

I didn't assume you were telling me off, but thank you for clarifying anyway. :) I'd just like to switch to sand because it looks easier to clean and more fun for the little guys down the bottom. I do wonder about the gravel having ammonia trapped in it. Maybe my substrate's too deep? It's a...

Round, smooth aquarium gravel. I'd like to switch to sand, but have to find the time.

That seems overstocked for 64 L. What are the water parameters? Perhaps something's up due to overcrowding.

Liquid test kit, yeah. Mostly he floats up the top at night—I'm usually up quite late, so there's enough light in the room to occasionally look over. I've never seen him even flare. I have wondered if he's knocking them off, but it just doesn't seem to match up when he's so good otherwise.

Pretty much. And it still took me a while to figure out stocking and cycling correctly.

When I set up my aquarium for the first time since childhood last year, the LFS sold me the following for my 10 LITRE tank: 10 neon tetras, blue dwarf gourami, bristle nose plec, and plants. I had a heater and a filter, but no light. I couldn't understand why they all died! I took the gourami...

Hi guys, Currently I keep a male betta and kuhli loaches (began with 6) in a 10G. I have tried keeping panda cories a few times fairly recently, but with no luck—they'd all slowly drop off, one by one, with no outward signs of illness beyond weakness. Now I'm trying kuhli loaches, but in a few...

Love love love the first one!!

He looks just like one I really regretted not getting!!