My Female Tank

[lilfishie]

Well heres some snaps of my 30 gal female Betta tank currently housing 26 females amongst a few other fish

Tank shot *sorry its so dark its all the frogbit *

Now the girls

Mustard Gas Dragon HM

Blue Combtail & Red VT

Red with gold sheen VT

Blue Combtail & White/Black Marble HM

Blue & Orange Dragon HMs

Blue Dragon & Pink/Blue Marble HM

Black/White Marble HM & 2 Red VTs

Pastle VT, Black/White Marble HM & 2 Blue Combtails

Red VTs

Blue VT

Of course thats only a hand full of my females

 

[pablothebetta]

Lovely!

 

[Biulu]

Great! How come that your females don't show 'stress stripes' in that set-up? I had 5 in 15 gallon and only the dominant female had her bright colouring. I saw the same at the breeder. We basically had to separate the females I was interested in buying so I could see their true colours.

 

[Cazgar]

I have 4 females in my community tank . . there were 5 but I lost one.
Mine all have their bright colours, no sign of stress stripes at all

 

[lilfishie]

The only time mine get stress stripes is when the light is turned on in the morning and thats only 2 out of the 26!

how planted is you 15 Gal? they should only have them when stressed, as you can see mine have plenty of cover and the large number helps too as 1 isn't picked on

Biulu are you sure your bright 1 was indeed female? if it was a PK male would explain the others being stressed

 

[Reret]

they are sweet

 

[Biulu]

The only time mine get stress stripes is when the light is turned on in the morning and thats only 2 out of the 26!

how planted is you 15 Gal? they should only have them when stressed, as you can see mine have plenty of cover and the large number helps too as 1 isn't picked on

Biulu are you sure your bright 1 was indeed female? if it was a PK male would explain the others being stressed

My tanks is planted normally but with sufficient cover. I have started to think too that it might actually be a male. I will try to take a picture of 'her' tomorrow.

 

[lilfishie]

yer get a pic up, in the mean time theres a link in my sig that shows you what to look for

could also be anyother tankmates? what else is in the tank?

 

[beanz8]

Lovely!

 

[Biulu]

yer get a pic up, in the mean time theres a link in my sig that shows you what to look for

could also be anyother tankmates? what else is in the tank?

Ok, thanks! No, they were all by themselves, no other tankmates.

 

[comocrayfish5]

wow you have some pretty bettas! i love female betta community tanks!

 

[lilfishie]

You can see a vid Here