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Thinking about putting a female with my male opinions?

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Okay so I have a chill male HMPK that I have had for many months. I am considering trying to add a female to his tank. I have kept males with females in the past but in much larger tanks. Taxi lives in a 10 gallon and is so densly planted you almost never see him. I just wanted some other opinions to if it would work. Also when I kept males with females, it was say just one male with 5+ females. So what should I try to do? One female or a small group of them? I have tanks I could put the male in if it didn't work out or put the females in their own tank. Either way.. Im attaching a picture.
 

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Unless your planning breeding, do NOT get a female. They will breed, and eat the fry. It's a endless cycle of killing little baby bettas. I would suggest something, like and Otto or Cory if you want some tankmates. Or shrimp, snails, tetras, etc. Anything small, not very colorful, and without a big tail go really well with Bettas. Good Luck!
 
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I agree, not a good idea. Sororities are unpredictable as it is, adding a male would add to that unpredictability.
 
#6 ·
I love your tank, very pretty. Guppies would be great for some extra color and personality. Cory cats are amazing, too. I personally have my ten stocked with 1 guppies, 1 male betta (very chill), and 4 pygmy cories. I’m adding another three guppies and three cories to the mix on Saturday, plus new plants, so that wold b=give em a nicely stocked tank thats fun and lively. I would get something along the ling of that, but some tetras, other cories, I think loaches, snails, endlers, mollies 9Maybe? Not sure) and a assortment of other small, friendly fish would work well with a chill betta. Hope you decide on something nice ;)
 
#7 ·
Breed?? They will *kill* each other. These are not guppies! Please drop the idea.
Correct. You can't put a male and female in the same tank.

When considering tank mates for a betta the first thing you need to do is make sure you can re house the tank mates at a moments notice.

It is the Bettas tank and he/she decides what tank mates it has and who lives and dies in the tank not the fish keeper.

Also what are your water parameters like? Its no good putting hard water fish into soft water or vice versa.

mollies Maybe?
Tank is too small for Mollies also see above about water hardness, Mollies do not do well in soft water.

I think loaches
What type of loaches would you suggest? Again is the water soft or hard, Kuhlis would be ok but as with all loaches you need at least 6

a assortment of other small,
Most snails do not do well in soft water even with a source of calcium.

And remember Live Bearers ( Guppies Mollies Platys ) are social fish and need to be kept in at least a group of 3.
 
#9 ·
Correct. You can't put a male and female in the same tank.

When considering tank mates for a betta the first thing you need to do is make sure you can re house the tank mates at a moments notice.

It is the Bettas tank and he/she decides what tank mates it has and who lives and dies in the tank not the fish keeper.

Also what are your water parameters like? Its no good putting hard water fish into soft water or vice versa.

Tank is too small for Mollies also see above about water hardness, Mollies do not do well in soft water.

What type of loaches would you suggest? Again is the water soft or hard, Kuhlis would be ok but as with all loaches you need at least 6

Most snails do not do well in soft water even with a source of calcium.

And remember Live Bearers ( Guppies Mollies Platys ) are social fish and need to be kept in at least a group of 3.
All depends on the water, I guess. I was thinking of Kuhlis when I put loaches. They’re pretty neat.
 
#8 ·
If you want to keep a couple or harem, or reverse harem look into the wild type bettas, not betta splendens (crown tail, veil tail, halfmoon, elephant ear etc etc etc). As stated above, betta splendens are the "Siemens fighting fish"-they got that name for a reason after many many generations of breeding for aggression (the aggression is still in their genetics even though they are mostly bred as pets now) and should not be housed together (unless a divider is used to separate them).
 
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I recall in the journal sections, there are several people with wild types that might work that way. Some of them sell fish on ebay and aquabid, so if you really want a harem type thing, I would look there first.

I agree that even a laid back male would not do well with a female.
 
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