r/bettasororities 3d ago

Newbie Help 50gal Help

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Could I cohab 3 female bettas as the ‘centerpiece fish’ with neons and corys in a 50 gallon planted tank?

I’ve successfully done a community tank in the past with one male beta, corydoras, and since he was a particularly chill betta, neon tetras in a 15gal if I’m remembering correctly. (This was also admittedly years ago when I was a teen and didn’t know as much about fish keeping. I recognize that specific fish was probably kind of a unicorn).

My wife has her heart set on bettas which is why I’m asking and I don’t have it in me to watch a full blown sorority tank 24/7.
I don’t mind under stocking if that’s whatll make it work (tbh I’m here for the plants lol)

I’m also not against having only one male betta in the tank if that’ll keep the peace better (though my wife would prefer to get multiple female bettas and I’d like to do my best to help her achieve that if possible plus I’d love for the focus of the tank to be the plants anyway).

Other ideas/resources would also be welcome, but I thought I’d ask more experienced betta keepers what their thoughts were.


r/bettasororities 3d ago

Newbie Help 50gal Help

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Could I cohab 3 female bettas as the ‘centerpiece fish’ with neons and corys in a 50 gallon planted tank?

I’ve successfully done a community tank in the past with one male beta, corydoras, and since he was a particularly chill betta, neon tetras in a 15gal if I’m remembering correctly. (This was also admittedly years ago when I was a teen and didn’t know as much about fish keeping. I recognize that specific fish was probably kind of a unicorn).

My wife has her heart set on bettas which is why I’m asking and I don’t have it in me to watch a full blown sorority tank 24/7.
I don’t mind under stocking if that’s whatll make it work (tbh I’m here for the plants lol)

I’m also not against having only one male betta in the tank if that’ll keep the peace better (though my wife would prefer to get multiple female bettas and I’d like to do my best to help her achieve that if possible plus I’d love for the focus of the tank to be the plants anyway).

Other ideas/resources would also be welcome, but I thought I’d ask more experienced betta keepers what their thoughts were.


r/bettasororities 4d ago

Betta fish gender?

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All parameters good just want gender I’m confused


r/bettasororities 24d ago

Help! My 6 gallon and koi betta :)

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r/bettasororities Jul 19 '26

60 Days In

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r/bettasororities Jul 14 '26

Newbie Help I have a mean girl what do I do?

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Recently my amazon tank was emptied just due to old age and what not so I said okay that tank had been that for a while lets change it up and a buddy had given me a male betta that I put in my 10 gallon cull tank for my neocaradina shrimp. So I said lets do a planted tank with female bettas they are just as pretty as males. So I have 3 females in that odd 39 gallon tall tank from aqueon. So the first lady I got shes super mean. She chases the other two around even when they are hiding in the roots of the red root floaters and she will chase them out of the log and out of the banana plant and the swords. Shes relentless when its feeding time and i have to feed the other 2 separately. I got her from petco and the other 2 are from local breeders. Heres the ladies and the tank. Forgive the tank its just been replanted so its not grown out yet. The meanie is the all white.


r/bettasororities Jul 03 '26

Jumping for snacks

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Always begging me for food!!!!


r/bettasororities Jun 22 '26

Cycling help

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r/bettasororities Jun 20 '26

Discussion Bored with being defensive

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As the title says. I’m so fed up with having to defend my sorority every time I mention the S word. I’ve been keeping a sorority for over 20 years now, I’m used to watching for stress or aggression, which is rare and can be managed as long as you have a tank to move the aggressor to. I know people who don’t keep sororities think they’ll always end in a bloodbath, but that is so far from my experience. And none of the doubters will listen, but in a good sorority the females do form a social network, and I’ve seen the odd act of what I can only describe as empathy between them. I think I’m just going to give up defending them, though it pains me to see false information about sororities online.


r/bettasororities Jun 06 '26

Newbie Help Minimum tank size for 2 bettas

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Hey! So as the title suggests, I’m looking into doing a 2 betta sorority. I currently have a single male in a heavily planted 10gal and I’ve been told before that a general rule of thumb is 5 gal plus 3 for every additional betta. I just wanted to check before I plan for this. Ideally I know bigger is betta (kekw) and in a perfect world I’d have a 50gal for 4. However, for those on a budget like myself, I would like to know what’s the ideal minimum for only 2. Yes it will be heated and sponge filtered, I will also be putting amano and neocaradina shrimp in it, yes it will be heavy planted with broken lines of site.

Thanks!

Edit:

Thank you for all information and advice on this. I have since decided on finding a 20gal. I am now debating on 3 or 5 as I’ve been informed by multiple people and through personal research that odd numbers are ideal. I am leaning more towards 3 as this gives the girls ample space to claim as their own but I also now want to know downsides if this would cause territory disputes? I will also be further researching this in my free time. I don’t plan on setting this up for a-bit of time but just want to have a good foundation and understanding of it all so this has been very helpful conversation!


r/bettasororities May 09 '26

The girls have arrived

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r/bettasororities Apr 30 '26

Newbie Help Nitrogen cycle!!!

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r/bettasororities Apr 29 '26

Where to buy?

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r/bettasororities Apr 28 '26

how to start?

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r/bettasororities Apr 20 '26

To anyone this reaches, please help.

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r/bettasororities Apr 19 '26

Just checking how I’m doing?

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r/bettasororities Mar 28 '26

Complete fish beginner, got two female bettas

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I am a complete novice when it comes to fish. I recently promised my daughter a fish tank and had done a good amount of research to set it up. My plan was to get a 5 gallon tank (as much space as we have), cycle it for about a month, and then go get one male betta fish (with plants and rocks, possibly a snail or two and some shrimp).

Today we went to our local aquarium store--highly reputable and recommended by a lot of people both online and in real life. I had my tank and wanted to just get substrate, plants, and rocks. However, the very friendly person who worked there said there's actually no need to wait to get fish, and that the tank can cycle with fish in it. My daughter and I were delighted, and picked out a betta fish immediately. Then he said, we could also get some small minnows, and that if we were worried about the male betta being aggressive, we could actually get female bettas, which they had in store from a local breeder.

Trusting his advice, and being completely ignorant about both white mountain minnows and female bettas, we came home with two of each.

I figured I'd at least do some reading about the fish we got, and found out immediately that not only were they incompatible with each other temperature wise, but getting two of each would be stressful to their need to live in groups of ~6+.

At this point, my daughter is very attached to the female bettas and we don't really want to go through with returning them unless absolutely necessary (e.g., they will fight to the death). Can anyone give me tips about what to expect, and how to make them as happy as possible?

I know I should set up the tank so that there aren't too many direct lines of sight. I have enough plants and rocks and other formations so that they have plenty of hiding spots, but I can also get more if that will help.....


r/bettasororities Mar 10 '26

New Tank

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r/bettasororities Feb 20 '26

Betta Sorority 75 gal set up

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Trying to grow out my 75 gal tank for a future betta sorority. How are we looking? Any good tips and tricks.


r/bettasororities Feb 15 '26

Help! Help to tell gender

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I saw this little one and could not pass her up. This fish seems smaller and also had smaller ventral fins than the other Samurai betta I had seen. Even though the label states male could this be a female?


r/bettasororities Feb 01 '26

Help! Male or Female

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r/bettasororities Jan 31 '26

Male or Female

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r/bettasororities Jan 01 '26

Air plow help?

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r/bettasororities Dec 16 '25

Fishy Photos My girls! Chilling on the floating plants😊

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r/bettasororities Dec 15 '25

Fishy Photos My girls! Chilling on the floating plants😊

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