Betta males are very aggressive, even with betta females. Really they do much better alone in a tank.

This is some sites that might interest you
http://www.beta-fighting-fish.com/

I don't post often but fish are a passion of me and my husbands. We have a semi aggressive tank and our daughters betta lives with all the fish, the only fish he chases is our butterfly, which chases back.

I have 6 Betta. All males
I had a couple females but
the males killed them.
I have small Plecostomous (sp)
in each tank to keep the water clean
And I had fantail goldfish in with them before too with no problems. Most of my boys are blue.
But I do have an all/mostly white one.
A very bright red one. And a lightblue and pink one.

I have in my tank- 1 huge angel, a butterfly, betta, 5 neons, 2 cory cats, a pleco, 6 tiger barb, 5 serpea tetra, 2 irres. sharks, and a gouramie(sp?) We are starting a saltwater tank soon too. I loved the salwater pics. My hubby loved the eel, that's one of the first that will be in our tank.

Most Beta do well in tanks with non agressive and slow moving fish, and what you have to watch for is that the others don't nip at his fins and tear them up. try feeding some blood worms, I have yet to see a fish not eat them up!

Just remember this rule of thumb when adding fish to any tank, Anything bigger can and will usually eat the smaller, its just nature

Some of the fish should not be together but how do you tell a 4 year old no to a fish she "must have". Our background for the tank is a cat poster, the fish don't seem to mind all the kitties watching them. It makes an interesting background.

My male betta (a black and red butterfly crowntail) is housed with danios, fatheads and some other little fish that was supposed to be a 'feeder' guppy. I used to house him with a female and male guppy (with the danios and a few fatheads), but the one night, I was in the middle of tank cleaning for that tank and forgot about it, left the water at about 6 inches high and after filling it back up, my male guppy was torn to shreds, and the female was missing a few chunks from her fins too. I just never tried it again after those two got released from the medical tank. A lot of people say that slow fish are good for bettas, but in my experience, gentle, fash moving fish have never done me wrong. The fatheads mainly are pretty shy (they don't like goldfish, even if the goldfish are small than they are). I don't recommend using mollies though, because they ARE brackish fish, NOT freshwater fish.

Some of the fish should not be together but how do you tell a 4 year old no to a fish she "must have".


You either learn how quick or end up with ten million tanks. I personally have 10 tanks running right now, and I'm hoping to get more. (They're all freshwater.) I had been planning on breeding my bettas, but there was always SOMETHING that curtailed that plan. I either had males that were too stupid to breed, females that would NEVER come out, males that were too aggressive or males never never built nests. (Yes, I know that some males build while they're breeding, but these guys just never built them, even with females in the tanks.)

http://www.fishforums.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=15657

If you look up DeepBlueBettas (or DeepBlueBetta if the first doesn't work) on google or something, you should find a nice site with an amazing couple that spawn bettas for showing. They should still have their forum up, and if they do, that's the best place I can think of for betta help (they REALLY care about their bettas, they treat them like most people here treat their fuzzbutts.)

As for the food, the two brands I use and recommend are Hikari and HBH. I personally don't use anything else. The Hikari can be a little steep, but it's definately worth it. My betta boy gets a mix of HBH betta bites, Hikari blood worms and Hikari brine shrimp. He used to get live brine shrimp, but my mother threw out the two tubes of napuli (sp?) that I had, and those are hard to get around here (you have to order them), so I just replaced them with the Hikari. Freeze dried foods are recommended over the frozen foods, because supposedly they have much more nutrients, while the frozen foods loose some of the nutrients.

Well, that all depends on how long you want them to live. If you want them to die a tortured death, then keep them there. If you want them to live more than a month or two, then put them in a separate tank with half salt water and half fresh (I'm not sure about the salt:water ratio to make the salt water though). I've personally never kept mollies, I stick to my guppies. The one link that I sent you should have some good tank mates in it. Tetras are supposed to be good, and they're fairly cheap. I almost forgot, you can return the mollies too instead of getting another tank. (You'll end up with another tank before long anyways, fish are like potato chips )

Thanks, what can I say, when it comes to any animal I am a push over for my kids. My house is litteraly a zoo. We just added a new furbaby Friday, we took in a 4 year old min pin. All the fish get along and that's all that matters, althugh my daughter knows that the tank is "full" and can't pick anymore until we get a saltwater tank, but I won't get one until a do alot more research.
The formula for brackish-1/4 teaspoon salt/gallon of water.

you know, mollies aren't the only ones with salt in their tanks. All tropicals should have some.

Every website i have seen has suggested a 1/4 to a 1/2 of salt for bettas (the salt come in a little milk carton thing). And I don't think the mollies are suffering a slow and sure death that would be as painful as a pet store... just my opinion... BTW the tank and Betta looks fantastics

Hey dont support petco or petsmart they treat animals porley

At least they spell POORLY right.

Bettas are agoraphobic, which I learned in a physcology class means very afraid of large of unfamiliar spaces. In this case, it would be large. A 10 gallon is PLENTY big for a betta. Anything larger than that could stress the betta out too much and cause for a much shorter life, and even the recourse of a sickness they've had in the past. As far as tank mates go, I've never had any problem with white clouds. I've never tried anything other than that, but those have always been great. Also, I'm glad to hear you're using live plants. Plastic plants can beat up their fins very badly. Silk and live plants are definitely the best way to go.

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Originally posted by CHCanine:
Any betta people out there? Ive never been much of a fish person but I recently purchased a gorgeous Betta and set him up in a nice little 10 gallon tank with a filter, heater, and some live plants--I couldnt bear to plop him in a little bowl...

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Originally posted by Jason:
Hey dont support petco or petsmart they treat animals porley

Petco always has, but I've worked at petsmart for nearly 9 months now, and I can honestly tell you we treat our animals better than most poeple treat theirs. How many people do you know would change the cage of every one of their animals ENTIRELY every single morning, spoil them with carrots and oranges, and actually take the time to make up a "Sick Tank" in the back room to help the sick get better, rather than euthanize them with BAking soda (like Petco does)?