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my dad reacently instaled a pond in the back yard and put me in charge of the fish and plants inside it i kinda wanted to do something diffrent and read bettas are good with flucuating temps and cool or warm weather and i wanted to know if it was realy ok to put them in an outdoor pond and if so with more than one male b/c there will be lots of plants to keep hidden if not ill just go with the koi any thoughts?

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This is one of those "Depends" answer.

In the wild they live in ponds but that is in the tropics.

Some are kept in unheated tanks as well.

It will depend on your area as to what you call cool and warm.

More that one??? again depends on size of pond but you can be sure they would find each other one way or another.

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i live in so.cal and the temp now is like in the hundreds but we got a heater for the pond b/c during winter it get real cold so we prepared for that but if bettas wont work were baking a buterfly koi plan thatl involve lotsa color

>>>>>>a learning experience as an aquarist can be fun but you must be ready to take and obey advice and criticism but most of all be patient<<<<<<<

I'm having trouble imagining a pond big enough for koi that bettas wouldn't just disappear in, never to be seen again.

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It is doable if your nighttime winter temperatures aren't too low. The problem with them is that they are laterally compressed, which makes them rather uninteresting from above. Wider fish are often better in ponds because more of their back is visible.

Paradise fish are also an option, and might be a little better because most bettas have a dark stripe along their backs to help them camouflage into murky water. Paradise fish have a similar thing, but it is lighter, and the blue and white varieties don't really have one at all. Paradise fish also handle lower temps slightly better than bettas.



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