Female Bettas In A Community Tank

[ElectricMayhem]

I have just found a teeny tiny little LFS around the corner from me that I didn't know existed. I had a good chat to the young girl who has just bought the place about the shop's remodelling, her own bettas, my bettas... she's a nice person, and she's knowledgable! She showed me a couple of "females" she's isolating because she's fairly certain they're adolescent boys

We started chatting, because I saw she had a whole tank of female bettas, and they were the most peaceful and playful I've ever seen. Pretty too. If I ever see females in a LFS they're always stressed and colourless and being nipped to death and picked on.

After all that gas bagging, my question is: has anyone ever successfully kept platies and female bettas in a community tank? I have read the sticky, just wanted people's personal opinions and experiences. I have a 50 gallon tank fishless cycling at the moment, and will probably [hopefully!] be cycled within a week. I was planning a tank of guppies and platies, but would it be possible to get some female bettas instead of guppies?

If not, I can see me having a huge sorority tank instead of my platies

 

[Synirr]

It can be done, with the right female. Feel free to try it, just have a plan B if things don't work out

 

[ElectricMayhem]

Thanks for the reply Synirr! I have a 15 gallon holding tank I can use if they don't get along... but if they don't get along the platies are finding a new home

I just got my first girl! I was looking around the pet shop while my hubby was in the supermarket, and I saw a little blue CT girl. I got her because she's such a cutie, and I've been looking for a CT girl, and any colour other than red! I heart CTs. I'm also possibly buying a couple of blue HM girls from a local guy in about a month.

New girl with no name yet. How long do you think will it take until her stripes go down?

 

[liz2]

she is sweet...dont they look nice with stripes...like my local lfs said some are striped...both ways

 

[basia]

I've got platys and female bettas in the same tank. It is a 30 gallon community tank. I have never had any problems up to now. Sometimes when the male platys bother the female bettas they give him a long look and the males then back off. The female bettas swim around with the platys a lot of the time. The only problem is making sure the betta girls get enough to eat, the platys are such pigs. My betta girls are now hand fed by me whilst the platys are distracted with flake.

 

[jakey boi]

Hi ,
Ive heard that females CAN fight as bad as males.
I think that the tank maybe big enough to keep some females together but if you risk it the fish may get along fine.