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Can I Keep Males and Females Together? By: BettySplendens Submitted: 6/30/2006 Males and Females will often fight mercilessly! Unless you are spawning them, the answer is usually NO. The male will normally chase, flare at and pick on any females in his territory, sometimes harassing them so much they never come out of hiding. If bettas find themselves together, one or both of them has either fighting or mating in mind, and the resulting damage can be devastating. Yes, some males are so mellow they ignore the females in their shared community. For awhile it may look like you've found a peaceful balance. But I've found that, nine times out of ten, the male will eventually discover his hidden Barracuda and start wreaking havoc on the females. And if the male is SO peaceful that he never chases around the females, then you can be assured they will notice his weakness and start giving him hell! You'll go to bed one night patting yourself on the back for "proving" they can be successfully kept together, and wake up to shredded tuna. It's just better not to take chances. Don't keep your males and females together unless you are spawning them, and make sure you keep an eye on things. Females can sometimes be kept peacefully together in community tanks (see article), and both male and female bettas do very well in community situations with most other species of fish. However, please remember to never try to keep two males together! They WILL fight. It WILL NOT be pretty.

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HEJSAN FROM SWEDEN EVERYONE! Everything in Sweden is going well, although I'm still busy learning the language and coping with a newborn, so it will be a bit before I'm as active as I'd like with the fish. This is a Facebook update! I have created a new BettySplendens Facebook page that will be used exclusively for betta-related networking. On the 16th of August I will be going through and deleting most of the people on my personal Facebook page who are not actual friends or family (many of you have become friends through the course of the hobby, and of course will not be deleted). If for any reason you wish to remain on my personal page, please let me know by emailing bettysplendens@yahoo.com, or FB email. Otherwise, go to the new BettySplendens Facebook page and click the 'like' button for more betta-related news and updates :).

Tack så mycket (that's ''Thank you very much'' in Svenskie-land ;))! ~Victoria~

Slight change of plans! I have decided that, instead of reinventing the wheel, I'm going to create a personal FB page and use the old one purely for betta stuff. So if you're on the original page (now called BettySplendens Bettas), please stay put! :P

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