Betta fish addiction

Sooo I love betta fish. I love the color and markings hey have now I have over ten. I think I have a problem. Lol but I am also trying to breed a pair. Wish me luck. My last breeding only has as 2 survivors.

Oh my gosh, I adore betta fish! Lucky you, with that many. xD I have two boys right now. One's in a ten gallon, the other in a five. While the colors and fluidity of their movements are absolutely stunning and amazing, my favorite part of bettas are their personalities.
Breeding them must be a really cool experience! If you get any little ones, I'd love to see pictures. :> 

How do you keep your bettas?

Well everyone know the boys can be very aggressive so they have thier own tanks ranging from 1 gal to 5. But my girls I can put in a ten gallon with Cory cats and one male. They are happy and color are bright. I also have Indian almond leave to help with stress. And feed them freeze dried blood worms for their color.  Bu I usually make tank deciders and put a male and female in too keep them from gett depressed. I clean the smaller tanks once a week. 

Betta fish are so gorgeous!! I've never owned one, but my aunt has a couple, and they're BEAUTIFUL and amazing. ♥

Last edited on 2017-12-24 at 22:18:42 by ~Snickerdoodle Fay~

I've had tons of gorgeous bettas over the years. My last one was a blue and mustard halfmoon male named Jarvis. 

I'm currently taking a break from bettas and plan to set up a 10 gal tank full of cory cats, nerite snails, and some sort of schooling fish. We have a semi aggressive 26 gal with tiger barbs, long fin danios, nerite snails, and a young pictus cat. Some time next year, we plan on getting a 40+ gal tank as an upgrade to our current one, as we know it's too small for the fish we have in it. We just can't afford the $300 one at the store right now. 

Jarvis is so cute! My two boys are veil-tails. Someday I'd like to have a half-moon. 

Females are typically just as territorial and aggressive as males, but can be successfully housed together whereas males generally cannot.

I used to have a good handful of bettas. Love the heck out of them.

They are so beautiful! I can’t keep them because my parents don’t want to keep tropical fish D:
We currently have one danio, he’s got blue stripes, and two minnows who are brown with red patches on their fins! The danio is always chasing minors around our extremely small tank XD

@Pegasusdreamer:  The reason the danio is chasing the minnows is it's a schooling fish and you should have at least four of them together at a time. I have six of them, and that seems to keep them from chasing the other fish. One reason the danio is chasing them around your tank, is mostly like due to stress of not being around others, he's bored, and nervous. So, he's taking it out on the minnows. Minnows are also meant to be in groups of five as well. But, it depends on your tank size, because you don't want to overcrowd it. I would like to point out that despite what Petco and Petsmart like to say danios are not a peaceful fish, like minnows, tetras, gouramis, rasboras, etc. They're semi-aggressive and do best in a tank of other semi-aggressive fish like tiger barbs. That's just my experience, anyways and what my fish supplier often says. 

Also tropical fish typically don't require anything more than a freshwater water tank does (some fish like mollies and guppies, require a bit of salt). I think your parents are confusing it with saltwater. So, you should be able to get a betta, and some bettas can have small peaceful schooling fish or cory cats in with them. It solely depends on the betta though, as some are just too territorial. But, I had a snail in with one of mine in the past and he did fine. Also had a friend that had neon tetras in with her's. Wouldn't put danios in with a betta, that'd be a bad idea. 

^ Yup, schooling fish generally need to be in at least small groups to be comfortable. Stress can even be a killer.

Literally the only thing a tropical tank "needs" that any other freshwater tank doesn't is possibly a heater, depending on the species of fish, their temperature requirements, and what your room temperature is kept at (some species, even certain danios, require an ambient temperature of 74-82 or higher, which I doubt anybody keeps their home at lol)

My oldest tank (from forever ago, no longer have it and the fish are LONG gone) was HUGE with a common pleco (he topped out somewhere between 1-2' long), a small school (4-5) of tiger barbs, three danios, two kissing gouramis, three silver dollars, and my blue male betta. The pleco obviously stayed on the floor, the silver dollars stuck mostly around the lower area of the tank, the tiger barbs stayed around lower-middle, danios and gouramis top-middle, and the betta chilled closer to the surface. When I mix species I try to see what area of the tank they prefer so I can have some good 'layering' going on. Live plants are always great, too, especially if you have a type of fish that likes to hide.

The larger the tank, though, the more of a chore it is to clean; we had to get old paint buckets out to put the fish in while we cleaned the huge freaking thing lol.