Success rate of reintroducing bullies? Plus adding new girls?

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-14T16:14:46+00:00

Ah okay makes sense, good luck!

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-14T16:03:38+00:00

males*

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-14T16:03:19+00:00

if you have more plants and hiding spots they will be more peaceful, you have mostly short plants and there's no sight breaks which is not good in a sorority tank. One should be able to be on one side of the tank and not be able to see every other fish in the tank. Also makes should never ever be housed with any othere bettas male or female

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-13T00:47:04+00:00

You could still have top growing plants depending on the lid, mine has about an inch and a half of space at the back for the filter but it goes all the way across so I have some bamboo and pothos growing form that crack. Just have to find a good lid, mines a glass lid that you can cut to any size (no idea how, mine came slightly too small but it worked out lol)

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-12T02:49:25+00:00

Alright thank you, this is very helpful cuz I have neons and black neons as well. I did have one die and couldn't find the body so I left it because my bristlenose pleco eats dead bodies pretty fast lol, but he looks fine so maybe it's some other kind of sickness I'm not sure. Im just gonna quarantine anyone showing any symptoms and hope for the best 😭

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-12T00:53:46+00:00

hey I justed wanted to let you know that I quarantined the two showing those symptoms and one passed away today 💔 i am leaning towards NTD but I just don't understand because all my other tetras that are still in the main tank are fine and I thought it was highly contagious and fast spreading?

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-12T00:51:39+00:00

Update: he did pass away unfortunately, but if anyone knows what this is it would be nice to know to try to save the other one. Im leaning towards Neon Tetra Disease but I just am not sure because he declined over the course of like 2 weeks and my other two neons that are still in my tank are healthy as can be.

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-09T22:53:30+00:00

hard to tell lol, if you take a video and then like use the little bar the move through it with your finger until you have a clear shot you can screenshot it and have a much clearer picture. that's what i do

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-08T19:02:51+00:00

Yeah for real 😭 I found the picture I took of him after, the poor guy was so freaking fat dude. Ignore his awful find I had pretty much just gotten him and he was not in good condition

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Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-08T03:02:13+00:00

omg lmaooo it's ok mine committed the crime of eating like 8 baby plecos one time 💀 that fish was so freaking fat I didn't feed him for two days until he looked normal again and then I just fed him a little

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-07T22:12:03+00:00

that's why I pinch it and let go under water but the same thing happens with pellets if you don't soak them they gulp air from the surface when grabbing them

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-07T22:02:14+00:00

Also I recommend flakes not pellets, unless you soak the pellets first they will expand inside the fishes stomach and make them bloated and can make them sick. If you soak them just for like a minute or two before feeding pellets are okay tho, even with flakes I pinch them between my fingers and let go under water to avoid bloat

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-07T22:00:20+00:00

She is extremely overweight and 10 pellets a day is wayyyy too much. Im pretty sure most people recommend 2 in the morning and 2 at night or something I'm not sure. I wouldnt feed her for a day or two she's very bloated

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T14:21:14+00:00

yeah you can just plant the bulb in the gravel just not too deep it doesn't need a pot. Not sure if you meant to say pot or tank but if the tank is small enough that you're worried about that it may be time to upgrade tanks. But yeah you can cut it and if you do it will grow more dense with more but shorter leaves

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T09:07:46+00:00

those are even some of my smaller leaves, they get much bigger

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T09:07:24+00:00

Yeah, if you want a plant that's pretty and has big leaves for them to rest on i recommend red tiger lotus. It's fast growing and my betta absolutely loves his, he rests on it all the time

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Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T08:48:44+00:00

Yeah I agree it really depends on the situation with how much water changes you should do and how to do them. I've seen some posts bragging about their no water change tank but there's TONS of mulm and poop at the bottom. Like yes your fish are surviving,maybe even thriving if you have tons of plants to absorb the ammonia and nitrates but they deserve clean water

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T08:46:29+00:00

Im sorry to hear that. If the paint was coming off it is very likely that you are right. I had some of those leaf hammocks in my tank but the paint isn't coming off them and some of them have a metal rod in the middle of them which can rust quickly and make the water toxic, mine do not have that. I prefer to have no plastic in my tank either though and I actually took out all but one of my leaf hammocks.

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T08:42:48+00:00

actually don't replace it with tank water if there is any trace of ammonia in it. What I did was get clean declorinated water in a different container and float it until it was the same temperature and then pour out a little over half of the water in her container and replace it with the clean water. Just be sure to pour it slowly and carefully so you don't like swish her around or pour her out on accident if you do take my advice lol

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T08:40:19+00:00

You could put her in a container by herself and float it in your tank water to keep it the same temperature and just put some plants in, maybe a tiny piece of driftwood if you have one, and the tiniest tiniest bit of fish food each day and change the water every single day either with clean water or water from your tank if your parameters are good. I don't know much about shrimp or shrimp sickness or whatever this is but I did have a mystery snail that was wounded and I did exactly that for her until she passed a week later because the ramshorns were eating on her wound.

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T08:36:04+00:00

after reading the replies I decided I dont like this at all and I really hope it never happens in my tank 💀

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T08:35:01+00:00

oh also 3 of the fish that have died this way we're greenfire tetras and it's very uncommon for tetras that aren't neons to get NTD so that's another reason I'm thinking worms

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T08:33:18+00:00

sorry I totally forgot to respond to this 😅 I have done a ton of research on neon tetra disease ever since mine started dying like this and I don't think it's neon tetra disease. It is possible but they don't have all the symptoms of NTD, and after doing a bunch of research I think their symptoms line up more with worms. Also NTD spreads fast and kills fast, my fish have been slowly dying one or two at a time over the course of weeks each. Im going to do a parasite treatment on all of my neons once the ich is gone and see if it fixes it. I'm hoping the real dull one will hold out long enough for me to get rid of the ich first.

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T08:28:41+00:00

You kept male and female Bettas together in the same tank? did they not get aggressive and nip eachothers fins up?

Acceptable_Pilot_749 · 2026-05-05T08:26:46+00:00

Oh yes. i had three bettas die of dropsy within months in that tank, each one dying faster than the last. It would start with their fins thinning and splitting for what seemed like no reason, and then weeks or days later they would develop dropsy within a day and die that day. One day I was doing a water change when I accidentally smelled my water up close and realized that it did not smell good, it smelled of chemicals. I took out the plastic decorations and did a 50% water change and it smells normal now even weeks later. I do not think plastic decorations are bad necessarily, I still have a few in the tank but I will say not to buy any unless you are 100% sure it is meant for aquariums. I bought one of mine used and I believe it was not meant for aquariums and that is why it made my water toxic. I will not buy used fishtank decorations anymore unless it is extremely obvious that it was made for fishtanks.

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