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How many do you have??

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#1 ·
Just curious as to how many bettas people have?
What size tanks (No judgement allowed! Please be polite)? Im just curious because it will help me get an idea of the work load involved in multiple bettas...
Are they filtered?
How often do you provide water changes and what %?
Feel free to share pics too, I always love to see pics :)

Im thinking of setting up a 5 gal as a long term winter project but i cant decide if I really want to take on a 3rd betta. I have extra mosses I decided to not add to my current tanks and a few extra plants so I cant help but think it would be a good use of my extra tank and plants.

Id like to cycle the tank, heavily plant it and add one betta and some shrimps eventually.

Thanks everyone!
 
#2 ·
I have 2 bettas, one in a 5 gallon, filtered and heated(duh!) and i change half the water once a week. The other betta is in a ten gallon, and it is the same as above.
 
#3 ·
I have 2 bettas right now. A male and a female. The male, (Lebron) is in a cycled and heated 3.5 tank right now. I do a 75% change every week. My female, (Winnie) is in a QT jar waiting for her 20 gallon, soon to be sorority. I do water changes everyday as the jar is a jar used for keeping males in.
 
#4 ·
Finn is my one and only ;). He is in a 5 gallon. I do a 50% water change once a week :). He has a filter with a very gentle flow.
 
#6 ·
Currently, I have 13 Male bettas in 8 tanks ranging from about 2 to 10 gallons.
The Gecko has taken up my 20 long, otherwise I would probably set that up as a Sorority again....I miss my girlies sometimes. xD

I preform water changes three times a week(one partial in my cycled tanks, two partials and one full in my uncycled smaller tanks), though with my Python hose things go pretty quickly and smoothly with very minimal mess. Even on Wendsdays when I clean every tank, it only takes me about an hour, maybe a little more, to get everything vacuumed and refilled and all that. The Python really makes a HUGE difference with water changes, I'm REALLY glad I invested in it....I probably wouldn't be able to keep up with so many tanks and fish if I didn't. xD
 
#7 ·
I have either four or five bettas right now, depending on how you look at it. Three of them each have a filtered/heated/planted 5.5 gallon (one of them is at my mom's vet clinic that I work at on occasion - while the fish is not technically mine, I either do or oversee all of the fish's care) and the other two are in a filtered/heated/planted divided 10 gallon. I also have a 15 gallon tank with guppies. Each tank typically gets a 50% water change once a week, right now the 10 gallon is getting more than that because of a cyanobacteria outbreak. I spend probably around an hour a week keeping the fish happy and making sure all the tanks are clean.
 
#10 ·
Very helpful everyone! Love that picture aokashi lol. Well it sounds like 3 betta's will be do-able if I set everything up right, cycle the tank and have it all planted :) how exciting. My next dream betta is a solid red and tank full of ammonia eating plants. We shall see what the future will bring.
 
#11 ·
I have four. One is my fiances, he is in a 5 gallon heated and filtered. I have two that share a divided 10 gallon, heated and filtered. And I just brought home another boy today who is in a 2.5 gallon which is heated but not filtered...

I would probably have more, but I told myself 4 would have to be the limit because I don't think that they can all get the attention they need if I had more than 4....
 
#12 · (Edited)
I have 15.
6 live together in a 20G long with live plants and 2 rabbit snails, 1 tiger nerite and a few trapdoor snails. 6 males are in 2 divided 10 gallons, I have one in a 5 gallon, one in a 15ish gallon storage bin with 2 juvie clown plecos and one in a 3 gallon kritter keeper which I am using as a hospital tank. I have like 4 of the kritter keepers but its easier to use divided tanks.
 
#14 ·
Just one for now....maybe I'll get a second one(I had my eye on this little crown tail girl in petco)...she was so cute and pretty! most likely not. xD

Fred currently lives in a half gallon bowl. HOWEVER, I just ordered the 5 gallon fluval chi, so that's going to be his new home after it gets cycled. :D So maybe little Lucy will live in a one gallon bowl ahha. Idk. My mom would be mad xD (she'll get over it). She told me that I was going to kill fred if i kept chainging the water and i explained to her all the ammonia stuff and nitrate and nitrite and ooh i felt so scientifical...and only on this forum for a few days xD I've learned soooo much thanks to all of you wonderful betta folk.
 
#15 ·
I have 2. One female in a filtered 5.5, moderately planted.
I do a 25%-50% change on that once a week.
My male is in a 2 gallon drum bowl. moderately planted but not filtered.
For that one I take out about 1/3 of the water once a week.

Hopefully I will be setting up another 2 gallon after the holidays. Otherwise I know for sure I will be setting up a 10-20 gallon for a class project, but I won't be able to stock it with live fish until around March.
 
#16 ·
I have 6, one female & 5 males.
3 are in 5 gallon filtered tanks & they get a water change once a week. One male is in a 3 gallon with no filter & every 2nd day water changes. Same with my other male who is in a 2 gallon with no filter, every 2nd day.

& my female is in a 3 gallon filtered tank she gets a weekly change.
 
#17 ·
I have 7 right now and 3 more on the way.
3 are in a 10 gallon divided - 1 50% a week and then a 100% once a month heated not filtered because the ones i have right not are running on a different over stocked tank till i rehome the fish in there in a few days.
2 are in 1 gallon bowls - 100% every 3 days not heated or filtered
2 are in .5 gallon bowls - 100% changes every to every other day not heated or filtered.
The ones in the 1 & .5 gallons are females along with one in the 10 gallon and 2 of the 3 i have coming next week, will be moved over to a 26g tank here in a couple days as soon as I get the fish that are already in it to a friend, then both the 10 & 26 will be heated and filtered. the 26 will have weekly 25-50%changes depending on water quality after i make the move.
 
#18 ·
Today started out with 12. I had 7 females and 5 males. Then I stopped by the pet store today for supplies. Yeah right! So i see 2 cute but tiny female HMs. Bring them home and then find out my spawn worked out and I have a bunch of fry now too. My wife thinks I have a problem! Thank God she is cool with it and likes bettas.
 
#19 ·
Dont Judge

I currently have 6 Betta fish. All male Veiltale Bettas. I do water changes every other day. They are all in 1 gallon tanks all to themselves. They each have a plant and hideaway. :)
 
#20 ·
I'm sure I will probably forget someone but currently I have 19 bettas, if I'm counting right. The splendens are all in their own tanks ranging from 3-10 gallons, with the exception of my two surviving sorority girls who are together in a 14 gallon. Then I have my groups of wilds in 20 gallon long tanks. I am about to set up two more 10 gallon tanks as well.
 
#21 ·
I have too many to count...lol.....I have at least 200-300+ more or less...Ages range from newly hatched to 4+ years. Kept in 1gal-to-75gal tanks that are all heavy planted soil based. Tanks that are over 3 months old and over 10 gals get 2-3 water changes a year. Smaller tanks and fry tanks get more water changes that vary. Tanks 10gal and smaller don't have filters and 20gal and larger will sometimes have a filter of some type-but not running all the time for water movement-Main filtration in all tank are live plants.

Here is a pic of some of my tanks



 
#26 ·
I have too many to count...lol.....I have at least 200-300+ more or less...Ages range from newly hatched to 4+ years. Kept in 1gal-to-75gal tanks that are all heavy planted soil based. Tanks that are over 3 months old and over 10 gals get 2-3 water changes a year. Smaller tanks and fry tanks get more water changes that vary. Tanks 10gal and smaller don't have filters and 20gal and larger will sometimes have a filter of some type-but not running all the time for water movement-Main filtration in all tank are live plants.

Here is a pic of some of my tanks




I hope i can have a fish room like that some day! Soo many plants! I'm jealous. Especially at how little you have to do water changes for that many tanks!
 
#23 ·
@ oldfishlady...WOW, I have never seen so many planted tanks...beautiful.
thats my dream..I only have 1 betta in a 20g long, is planted but ordered more to arrive tomorrow. Do you use c02? or liquid co2?
I have 3 empty tanks, a 1 gallon, 2.5 gallon, and 8 gallon.
I never new you can put a fish in a 5 gallon or less, without cycle??? That would freak me out...reason being I have had 36 gallon, and now have 60 gallon, community tank, either had BB kept..or only did non-fish cycle...
went to my local fish store,two days ago and saw a peach color or pale VT, and now can't stop thinking about him...want to go back and get him..:D
 
#28 ·
I have two normal splendens, one female CT and one male HMPK both are imports from Thailand. They live in a divided 12 inch cube that is planted, cycled and only gets water changes once every fortnight.

The rest of my bettas are wilds. I have around 30 odd adults of various species, as well as around 50 odd fry. The adults get a small water change once every two days, while the fry grow-outs get daily 50% water changes.

This is an example of my typical wild betta set-up. Very different from how my splendens are kept.



I personally like to keep my bettas in a minimum of 2.5 gallons with a preference for either heavily planted or cycled tanks. Just makes it that much easier to care for them and also ensures the best possible water quality. When I had around 30 odd uncycled tanks, it was just too much work doing the necessary water changes and maintenance on a daily basis.
 
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