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just wondering, since i have 2 spare 5g tanks and i have nothing to put in them at the moment

[span class="edited"][Edited by moondog 2004-08-14 16:19][/span]

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

Depends on what sort of filter (if any)you're using, how many watts your light (if any) is.

a five gallon is big compared to a betta. in a 5 gallon you can put up to 5-6 females.

I wouldn't put more than 3

i would put 5, that gives them adequate room yet has enough fish to spread the agression out

I would say two, unless you want to be doing waterchanges everyday. Also, when buying from the store, if you can, buy females that are already in a tank of females. This is to make sure that the females you house won't rip each other up. (Of course...they still could...)

I wouldn't put more than two or three, really. I have six in my twenty gallon and really can't imagine all of them in a much smaller tank. Although my girls are really sweet and non aggressive, they DO have their moments and like to get away from each other.

It's more to do with aggression/personality that it is to do with filtration. Sure, if you wanted to, you might get away with five for filtration's sake, but really, there's not a whole lot of space in a five gallon for them to have the whole territory thing going on.

Like SolubleFish said, try to go with girls that were raised/sold in a community tank. Like he said, though, that doesn't automatically mean that they'll be good tankmates.

Five of my girls were bought from the same tank and get along great. One was added a few months later (bought in a cup from a completely different store) and settled in with little fuss. I tried adding another girl from the same store I bought the first five from. She came from a community tank and was quite ragged, so I figured she'd be a pretty passive girl. WRONG! She ripped through my girls and is now sentenced to solitary confinement for the rest of her natural born days. ]:|

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

I was told from people here that I could put 4-5 female bettas in my empty ten gallon, so just divide in half to get 2-3 as SolubleFish, Lucy Lou, and Kitten said. I think thats a good number.

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

I'd say 2-3 and make sure that you keep and eye on them to make sure that they don't rip each other up

ok thanks. i still haven't decided yet if i want to set up another tank, plus i don't know exactly where i would put it anyway but at least i'll have some ideas once it happens. i would someday like to get into breeding my betta, but i want to take things step by step until i get more settled into it.

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

theres always room for another 5 gallon...

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

ok whoever said 5- 6 thats stupid

its only enough for three

hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

don't call me stupid you ****ing*******.anyway bettas don't grow that big and 5 is a good number in a 5 gallon.]:|

Not that big? My female bettas are near three inches long. Even if you went by the stupid "one inch per gallon rule" you'd only put two in there.

And he didn't say you were stupid. If you read, he said the IDEA was stupid. I tend to agree, in a not-so-offensive type way.

Five is far too many for a five gallon, in my opinion. There's not enough room for any aggression that might occur and there's really not that much room, period. I stand by my suggestion of 2-3 at the most.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

thankyou kitten, thats exactly what i meant- its a dumb idea