Help With New Bettas

[ryanp15]

I bought two bettas yesterday, a male and female. I added them to my 90 litre community tank, which includes platies, black neon tetras, danios, clown loaches, a sucking loach and serpae tetras. I thought that the serpae tetras would be fine as they are in a small shoal of 6, but they have been nipping the fins of the bettas. This has caused the bettas to hide and only come up for air.

Should I remove them now into a 3o litre tank i have? Or will the serpae tetras accept them in the end?

Any advice would be appreciated

 

[betta_luvr]

I would remove them NOW.
Is the 30L empty?
Normally a ratio of 1:1 male to female isn't that good, you might get away with it depending on their personalities (I've read somewhere)
Normally 1 male to 2-3 female's is best.
If you have a male and a female Betta in the same tank ... well ...
It's obvious what's going to come next.

 

[ryanp15]

I would remove them NOW.
Is the 30L empty?
Normally a ratio of 1:1 male to female isn't that good, you might get away with it depending on their personalities (I've read somewhere)
Normally 1 male to 2-3 female's is best.
If you have a male and a female Betta in the same tank ... well ...
It's obvious what's going to come next.

ok thanks for the reply, i forgot to add that if I did move them I would buy more females so that they would be less stressed.

the 30 litre has baby platies in at the moment but I could easily move them

 

[betta_luvr]

Go ahead and do that, then. [:
Then everyone's happy.
Good Luck!

 

[Jaded12]

Definatly move them! and remember males and females should never be kept together unless breeding where they're carefully monitored. Good luck!

 

[littlest]

I agree with Jaded ... don't keep male and female bettas together. If you have a 30 litre you could seperate the tank and have one on each side. I've not seperated a tank myself, but I'm sure others will be able to give you some tips on doing it...

 

[ibbledibble]

I would remove them NOW.
Is the 30L empty?
Normally a ratio of 1:1 male to female isn't that good, you might get away with it depending on their personalities (I've read somewhere)
Normally 1 male to 2-3 female's is best.
If you have a male and a female Betta in the same tank ... well ...
It's obvious what's going to come next.

actually its not obvious. depending on the temperament of your fish, you could end up with a dead male or a dead female or eggs/babies (or maybe eggs and then a dead female)

if you keep several females with a male, it just increases the risk of it being the male who dies

as jaded and littlest have said, male and female bettas should only be put together for breeding and then only under the correct conditions and with extreme caution by people who have researched it fully and are totally prepared.