Betta Sorority.

Good luck!

Good luck be careful if you see any bullying seperate them just so you know because some larger females will pick on the smaller ones wish you best of luck they are so pretty I love betta fish there intelligence and beauty at the same time 😉

They are really beautiful fish!
Be sure to send photos when you get more!
Good luck!
You're aquascape is very pretty too!

Love your aquascape! Good luck!

I may have accidentally crashed my cycle. Ammonia is reading 0.25 and nitrates are a LOT lower than usual. My usual nitrates are at about 10-15 ppm and they are now between 0 and 5 ppm I’ve had the ammonia problem before however (turned out it also reads ammonium, which, if memory serves, is harmless) and I did do a deep clean of the aquarium a couple of days ago because it wasn’t looking great.

other than that everything is still going good. Fish are all acting great. The 2 bigger girls are picking on the littlest one a little bit, but she hasn’t been injured and they leave her alone as long as she’s not in their areas. I may get another one her size so that the aggression is more distributed.

Hope you have good luck with the sorority but if you see it's more than her just being picked on move her so she doesn't get injured or killed

Beautiful girls!!! Hope it all works well! Can't wait for updated pics, too!

Keep an eye on the neon tetras...the can be a little nippy at times.

I’ve heard that of neon tetras but mine have never picked on my bettas. This specific group of neons has gone through 3 bettas now (2 long-finned males and a short finned female) and have always been little sweethearts. They are very greedy when it comes to food though so with my long finned boys I had to watch to make sure all their food wouldn’t get stolen. 😂

I really don’t think the littlest betta is in any danger so I won’t be separating her for now. By “picking on her” I mean the two larger girls flare at her is she gets close and if she doesn’t leave they chase her out. I may be wrong but it looks like normal pecking order behavior to me.

Ok so I think my ammonia test is just also reading the ammonium because my fish are all acting perfectly normal, my nitrites are still at 0 and my nitrates have gone up just the slightest bit. Yesterday it was hard to tell if they were zero or not but today they are definitely at 5 🙂

Why don't you get a SeaChem Ammonia Alert? It only reads NH3. I wouldn't be without them.

My betta flares at my mollie everytime she trys to steal his food I'm sure it's normal

Forgot: Beautiful girls and tank. Don't forget to keep us updated with lots of pictures.

RussellTheShihTzu said:

Why don't you get a SeaChem Ammonia Alert? It only reads NH3. I wouldn't be without them.

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That’s my plan. I had one earlier but algae got all over it and I had a hard time cleaning it so I just threw it away.

Looks to be natural changes seen in bettas with marble/koi coloration.

It’s very likely her colors will continue to evolve over time.

That’s what I thought at first but the change happened so fast that I’m not sure. The 2 pictures are just days apart, not even a full week.

My betta changed the day I brought him home it's normal she's not stressed unless you see stress stripes

Stress stipes are not the only indication that a fish is stressed but that does look like a natural colour change. Were you able to get any more females? I am worried about the small one that you said was being picked on a little. Because they aren't fish that naturally live together it isn't quite the same as pecking order establishment. They will pick off the weakest and then fight it out themselves. I would add a ton more plants and add more females as soon as possible. That being said, I have never had a sorority myself so you can take what I have to say with a grain of salt.