Super Chilled Male Betta

[Maz 1979]

I have a male in a community tank with some zebra/leopard danios, neon and glow-light tetras, 3 albino corys and a plec. He is super chilled out with everyone of his tank mates and does not flare at mirrors even though he is healthy and i have had him for a few months. He's in the kitchen so comes to me each time i go in there and spends ages staring as i'm cooking. He even comes up and likes being stroked hence his name of Doggy.

I did have a few blind cave fish in there but they doubled in size in a fortnight, wouldn't let him or anyone else eat and shredded his fins (all growing back healthy now), so they went back to the LFS.

After all i've read about the males and their feisty attitudes i just wanted to know if anybody else had a male that was so relaxed? Do you think his attitude would change if confronted with a female or would she just beat him up? I only ask as he is all alone and his personality is so great i feel bad for him not having a friend. Am i just being too sentimental? Is he actually fine all alone?

Thanks in advance,
Maz

 

[marieukxx]

He fine with community fish, but not with another female in there.

 

[lilfishie]

Males go fine on there own, definately dont add female in there they will just fight.

I have 2 short finned males in community tanks

 

[Maz 1979]

Thanks for the help guys. He's such a character that I just want him to be happy. My lfs told me he's ok in a little jug alone because of their reputation but that is so so wrong.

 

[lilfishie]

they all assume because they live in rice paddies that are a few inch deep they can live in tiny spaces, but if you google these rice paddies you will see that they are miles long and wide

 

[loraxchick]

ive never had a problem with any of my bettas with tankmates. Ive heard the horror stories from folks on this forum about mixing certain males with other fish. I guess ive been very lucky dozens of times...as long as he plays nice, i see no reason to rehome him.
as for the rice paddies, yes they are long and wide, but shallow, but bettas in the wild establish very small "territories", not occupying much space at all, many hundreds per acre with loads of cover. They establish their space and chase others away, but the area being so spacious they can "get away" from each other-not so in a small confined space like a fish tank. But they dont live in cow prints/buffalo prints as commonly thought.
id say leave him be if hes not causing any trouble with his tank buddies.
cheers

 

[Asteria]

Yes this can be true.
I have a short finned male and a vailtail male, the VT is so gentle he is in a tank with tiny fir tetra of like 0.5 -1 cm in length and they really like each other.
While the short finned chased everyone and was nasty so he is going to have his very own home shorty.
It just depends on their personality really

 

[LadyRiv.]

my male betta is very relaxed and i never had any problems with him n other fish, he used to be in a community tank till he got attacked by a platy. only time i've seen him flare... did not want to risk it and he moved out, now he's living with 4 male endlers n they're perfectly fine together.