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I was lying in a pile of sweat. The power company turned my power off 4 days early at my current place. I don't move til Monday. Got that taken care of and couldn't fall back to sleep. Just cleaned the fish tanks til it was time to get ready for work.

 

What tanks you got? Thought you just had a betta

 

I'm getting back in the game w a 20 gallon betta tank, setting it ip, just got the pothos vines in the water - def look into pothos if ur tank is otherwise unplanted

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What tanks you got? Thought you just had a betta

 

I'm getting back in the game w a 20 gallon betta tank, setting it ip, just got the pothos vines in the water - def look into pothos if ur tank is otherwise unplanted

 

I have 9 tanks, but only 3 are in use atm. Got a custom 13 gallon, custom 8 gallon, and a standard 5 gallon. All Bettas. My one year old boy is in the 13 gallon, 2 year old boy is in the 8 gallon, and my 2 year old girl is in the 5 gallon. Beyond those and the hospital tank, nothing is setup. Both of my 4 year old boys passed away recently so I'm not too keen on getting more right this second.

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O so you have a whole betta team. 4 years is good for them

 

My 20 gallon is going to be home to a couple of honey gourami in a couple months once the plants are grown and it's cycled, thinking about adding a betta in with them and hoping it doesn't work out so I have an excuse to keep something in the ten gallon.

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O so you have a whole betta team. 4 years is good for them

 

My 20 gallon is going to be home to a couple of honey gourami in a couple months once the plants are grown and it's cycled, thinking about adding a betta in with them and hoping it doesn't work out so I have an excuse to keep something in the ten gallon.

 

My oldest lived to be 10 years old. Got him back in the 90s. Mom killed him. Ugh.

 

I had 12 at one point, most of them at 3 years+. Just got the three atm, but once I'm settled into the new place, I want to get some more (and also some shrimp).

 

I would just go ahead and put the betta by itself, but I'm overly cautious. They could coexist together, since the tank is so big, but again, I'm a wuss when it comes to putting bettas with most other fish. Shit, I'm still hesitant to do a sorority  with female bettas.

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Wow good work, I had a teacher who claimed she'd had the fish that lived on her desk for eight years but that's the longest I'd heard of a betta living aside from your decade man. I've only ever had one for a few months before giving it away.

 

After watching enough vids of bettas being housed with weird things I'm ready to try it  but will be ready to move her into her own private home at the second or third sign of trouble.

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Wow good work, I had a teacher who claimed she'd had the fish that lived on her desk for eight years but that's the longest I'd heard of a betta living aside from your decade man. I've only ever had one for a few months before giving it away.

 

After watching enough vids of bettas being housed with weird things I'm ready to try it  but will be ready to move her into her own private home at the second or third sign of trouble.

 

There's someone that supposedly had one for almost 15 years. I make mine exercise, though, so I personally believe that is a big part in longevity for them since they're sedentary normally. It's easier to just teach them to do tricks or to play little games and let that be their exercise. The 10 year old was definitely an outlier, though, cause he lived 5 years longer than the second eldest fish I owned.

 

Oh it's a female? You know I've noticed the girls can be so docile but also can be more aggressive than the males. Again, why I'm hesitant on a sorority. If only one dominant female turns up, it should be fine, but if there are multiple they'll start fighting.

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I was considering 5 female bettas but read some fucking horror stories and decided on a couple super peaceful little honey gouramis instead.

 

I don't have any fish right now, but if I do try throwing a betta in there with them it will be a female. I like the way they look and am hoping it'll act slightly better than a male might.

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I was considering 5 female bettas but read some fucking horror stories and decided on a couple super peaceful little honey gouramis instead.

 

I don't have any fish right now, but if I do try throwing a betta in there with them it will be a female. I like the way they look and am hoping it'll act slightly better than a male might.

 

Bettas can unpredictable with tank mates, just gotta try 'em and find out. Each one is unique. One of the reasons I love them so much because they have distinct personalities.

 

Any particular kind you were thinking of getting? I had a crowntail female that I absolutely adored. She was an anomaly, too. She was 4 inches long (absolutely massive compared to her 2ish inch "sisters"). Didn't know this until after I got her but since she was solid purple, she was super rare. Like a god damned, rare,  living Pokemon. Had I put her up for sale she could have fetched a little under $1,000, but she was my baby and I didn't need money so I kept her til she died last year.

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Any particular kind you were thinking of getting?

 

Nope, just whoever looks the most correct when I'm ready. I assume they're mostly the same aside from finnage but idk. You made the right choice keeping your irl shiny pokemon, would've been cool to try to breed it for shiny children had you known earlier. I didn't know that was a thing.

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Nope, just whoever looks the most correct when I'm ready. I assume they're mostly the same aside from finnage but idk. You made the right choice keeping your irl shiny pokemon, would've been cool to try to breed it for shiny children had you known earlier. I didn't know that was a thing.

 

That's pretty much the only notable difference, yea. I have a bias for crowntail girls, though, obviously. My current girl is a veiltail.

I was planning to breed my rare girly with my green male but she died suddenly right before I moved into my apartment last year. Was waiting to move to setup the breeder tank since you can't fuck with it once the spawns started growing.

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