My Betta's!

[ShihTzulover]

I'm new here and I wanted to share my Betta's with you guys, they are all so pretty and I just got addicted to them LOL! Ones in a 5 gallon, the others in a 3 gallon, and 4 in a 10 gallon with a separator, there's a male and female together on each side and they've been getting along for 5 months now. Okay here's some pictures:

First Betta I got a year ago almost:

2nd which was a female:

3rd: Which was another female:

4th(A crown tailed Betta):

5th(My favorite one of them all... I can't help but have a favorite LOL):

My newest one that I got a few days ago(who loves to build his bubble nest):

What do you guys think? Do they all look nice and healthy? I'd love to see all your Betta's too!

I was also wondering, what do you guys feed your Betta's?

 

[lilacamy931]

Hello and welcome to the forums! They all look gorgeous and beautiful bettas there, do you have names for them all? They are all amazing colours, there seems to be a blue theme is that coincidence or are you a sucker for blues lol

It will be (mostly) recommended on here not to have the females in with the males as they can decide to turn on each other and erally do some damage to each other.

In terms of feeding I personally feed mine a staple of betta biogold pellets, he gets a pea once a week and bloodworm as a treat usually twice a week (though at the moment a little more often as he is a pig with the frogs food as well - but I am keeping a real careful eye on it ) I think this is the main staple most people go for but they will come along soon! LOL

There are many piccys about the thread and hope you are enjoying the forum already, if you ever have questions or wanna chat please feel free to PM me!

If you want to see my boy here is the thread :
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=297524

I currently own one but getting two more today and two further next couple of weeks.

 

[ShihTzulover]

Hello and welcome to the forums! They all look gorgeous and beautiful bettas there, do you have names for them all? They are all amazing colours, there seems to be a blue theme is that coincidence or are you a sucker for blues lol

It will be (mostly) recommended on here not to have the females in with the males as they can decide to turn on each other and erally do some damage to each other.

In terms of feeding I personally feed mine a staple of betta biogold pellets, he gets a pea once a week and bloodworm as a treat usually twice a week (though at the moment a little more often as he is a pig with the frogs food as well - but I am keeping a real careful eye on it ) I think this is the main staple most people go for but they will come along soon! LOL

There are many piccys about the thread and hope you are enjoying the forum already, if you ever have questions or wanna chat please feel free to PM me!

If you want to see my boy here is the thread :
[URL="http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=297524"]http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=297524[/URL]

I currently own one but getting two more today and two further next couple of weeks.

Thank you so much, I keep a smurf theme with all my blues yes I am a sucker for blue ones lol. I have a shih-tzu named Murphy and we nick named him Smurph and thats how I got into the whole Smurfs theme. The first one is Smurf, then the female is Smurfette, the 3rd female (Since there were no other female smurfs I could think of) is named Sheela Smurfette lol. My crown tailed blue one is Papa Smurf, and my other crown tail is Spike (for obvious reasons) and then my newest one is sharky because hes really feisty. Yeah I heard that before but I've come to learn that it is possible but very rare that they actually do get along? I don't know, I mean for 5 months they've all gotten along and swim together quite often and haven't had problems. I feed my betta pellets I forget what kind but I've looked up and heard they are great beings they don't have any of that unneeded stuff in it. My guys get a blood worm once a week sometimes twice, I've always wanted to feed them some live food but I heard if I feed them that once they won't ever eat their pellets again is that true? Lol I can imagine my Betta's stealing the frogs food too, I don't have a frog in with them though I think my males would be too aggressive beings Spike flares at the tank all day. He has absolutely amazing colors I love them! Oh I can't wait to see your new ones, could you post pictures when you get a chance?

 

[lilacamy931]

LOL I like it a Smurf village! Brilliant
Well when i got Calcifer he was on bloodworm frozen and live for about 5 days as the food had ordered took two blooming weeks to get to me even though I had ordered well in advance! It took him a while to get used to peas and pellets, but he loves both now. Havent tried him on live since though..hmm..may pick some up today and let you know!
Of course, i love to share fish pics, will need to let them settle first but of course! LOL.
They are all marvelous colours and all very very beautiful.
As to the females and males I have no personal experience with this and will allow someone with more experience to step in. It may be the case they just turn on one another some day,I hope not but Im unsure..

 

[Forestpisces]

Please seperate your maes and females whilst you still can!!!!!!!!!!

All might seem fine now but trust me you may wake up one morning to dead nipped and severly injured bettas. Everyone wil tell you the same, i'm begging you.

They are all beautiful and deserve a long and happy life which you can give them as you seem to already know most of what you are doing

But males and females together are a big no no.

 

[Syphoniera]

Hi, Shih Tsulover,
you do have very beautiful fish which look healthy and well-cared for.


Mine currently are most often getting Omega One flake, Hikari Micro Wafers, (unlike the BioGold and the Micro Pellets NOT specified as GM and are hopefully not) frozen Hikari bloodworms (managed to get some that are UV-treated rather than GM but will again quit feeding them those if GM's all I can get anymore) pea-feeds weekly when I can get decent frozen peas and some of them sometimes eat the Kent pellets I put in to feed shrimp and snails.
I sometimes feed the Kent betta pellets, but don't like feeding too many dry pellets which aren't tiny, and keep forgetting to soak them in time for feeds.

It's hard (around here, anyway) finding foods that predominately consist of real fish foods, rather than grain, which fish aren't constructed to digest, but possible, especially through the internet.

Crude protein can legally include shoe leather or ground-up chicken feathers so I always look at the actual ingredients and try to avoid anything that has grain in the first few listed.

I did get live food cultures a whule back, and was very pleased to get them, but my 14 & 1/2 year old dog has been very sick over the past few months, and the cultures not being used daily for baby/small fish somehow kept getting forgotten about, along with a lot of other things...

If I can salvage them and build them up again, we'll be using those as well as I'd intended to have been some time ago.


Sooner or later, no matter how well they may seem to be getting along while younger, when a male and female betta Splendens are kept in together with no massive sheltered area for escape room, one betta will almost certainly turn on the other and probably mangle or kill it, or they'll mangle or kill each other.
Unfortunately, this is a species characteristic.
You couldn't pay me to keep a pair of Splendens together - they're termed, and were bred as, fighting fish for a reason.
In the wild, the loser of any territorial showdown has enormous areas to run away in - in the tank, they're trapped, and there's nowhere for the weaker betta to run to, unless out onto the floor to die there, rather than by potentially being torn apart, one bite at a time, while alive and suffering unspeakable fear and agony...

Second-hand 10 gallons shouldn't be that expensive, if you could get one to divide to have each fish safely away from the others, and it's not as though they take much room...

 

[ShihTzulover]

Hi, Shih Tsulover,
you do have very beautiful fish which look healthy and well-cared for.


Mine currently are most often getting Omega One flake, Hikari Micro Wafers, (unlike the BioGold and the Micro Pellets NOT specified as GM and are hopefully not) frozen Hikari bloodworms (managed to get some that are UV-treated rather than GM but will again quit feeding them those if GM's all I can get anymore) pea-feeds weekly when I can get decent frozen peas and some of them sometimes eat the Kent pellets I put in to feed shrimp and snails.
I sometimes feed the Kent betta pellets, but don't like feeding too many dry pellets which aren't tiny, and keep forgetting to soak them in time for feeds.

It's hard (around here, anyway) finding foods that predominately consist of real fish foods, rather than grain, which fish aren't constructed to digest, but possible, especially through the internet.

Crude protein can legally include shoe leather or ground-up chicken feathers so I always look at the actual ingredients and try to avoid anything that has grain in the first few listed.

I did get live food cultures a whule back, and was very pleased to get them, but my 14 & 1/2 year old dog has been very sick over the past few months, and the cultures not being used daily for baby/small fish somehow kept getting forgotten about, along with a lot of other things...

If I can salvage them and build them up again, we'll be using those as well as I'd intended to have been some time ago.


Sooner or later, no matter how well they may seem to be getting along while younger, when a male and female betta Splendens are kept in together with no massive sheltered area for escape room, one betta will almost certainly turn on the other and probably mangle or kill it, or they'll mangle or kill each other.
Unfortunately, this is a species characteristic.
You couldn't pay me to keep a pair of Splendens together - they're termed, and were bred as, fighting fish for a reason.
In the wild, the loser of any territorial showdown has enormous areas to run away in - in the tank, they're trapped, and there's nowhere for the weaker betta to run to, unless out onto the floor to die there, rather than by potentially being torn apart, one bite at a time, while alive and suffering unspeakable fear and agony...

Second-hand 10 gallons shouldn't be that expensive, if you could get one to divide to have each fish safely away from the others, and it's not as though they take much room...

Okay thank you so much for all the help, I will buy another 10 gallon ASAP. I thought maybe after 5 months that they would never really fight but I do keep hearing they could turn at any point or time. Once again thank you so much for all the help!

Please seperate your maes and females whilst you still can!!!!!!!!!!

All might seem fine now but trust me you may wake up one morning to dead nipped and severly injured bettas. Everyone wil tell you the same, i'm begging you.

They are all beautiful and deserve a long and happy life which you can give them as you seem to already know most of what you are doing

But males and females together are a big no no.

Thank you so much, I'm going to be getting another 10 gallon so I can separate them now.

 

[loraxchick]

make sure to get a few more females tho for the new 10 gal. will help settle the agression so that one fish is not relentlessly picked on (ggod news for you...more fish
id start with 6 and see how that goes.
all the best

 

[gravitation]

I'm also a sucker for blue bettas and the first guy is amazing.

A word of warning, it is hard to make individual bettas get on in pairs.

I keep one male with a large group of females and they do fine but i have like a 60g tank, it's best to seperate them if possible and like mentioned above if you have a female community tank have atleast four females so that one or two won't be continuously bullied.