Ok, how do you seperate 3 females and 2 males when you only have 3 tanks?.....
I was driving along, thinking about how I would hate to have to return my females (again) or decide which 2 of the 3 had to go. When I thought of what breeders do...Build Partitions!!!
I have a 2 gallon hex with my first male Finchy... leave that alone...
But I also have two identical 3gallon acrylic tanks. 1 tank has a male, the other has 3 females with one (Reena) chasing the others continually.
I called a hardware store, picked up a sheet of 3/16" acrylic, made a cardboard template of the inside width of my tank (acrylic bowed tanks) then cut two dividers with about 100 x 3/16" size holes in each. My tanks both have notches in the exact middle of the plastic top 'frame' that holds the lid, so the dividers are held at top inside the notches, and sunk into 1" of gravel (ontop filter plate) at the bottom.
Then, it was time for musical fish...
I left Rigel the BIG blue betta and added Reena my biggest BLUE female betta on the other side. Well, Rigel was some excited and so was Reena. She was not scared at all, in fact, she was trying to get at him!!!
The other tank has Shelby the small blue and little red Ruby. Now that they have their own 'turf', neither Shelby or Ruby are hiding any more. The can see each other and have no horizontal lines anymore (for a while the both looked more like zeebra's than betas)
It was about 5 hours of work and cost me $10.00 in acrylic, but now, at least, the bio-load is much better and no one is in danger of being attacked.
Hope this works out (especially a male and female beside each other).
I was driving along, thinking about how I would hate to have to return my females (again) or decide which 2 of the 3 had to go. When I thought of what breeders do...Build Partitions!!!
I have a 2 gallon hex with my first male Finchy... leave that alone...
But I also have two identical 3gallon acrylic tanks. 1 tank has a male, the other has 3 females with one (Reena) chasing the others continually.
I called a hardware store, picked up a sheet of 3/16" acrylic, made a cardboard template of the inside width of my tank (acrylic bowed tanks) then cut two dividers with about 100 x 3/16" size holes in each. My tanks both have notches in the exact middle of the plastic top 'frame' that holds the lid, so the dividers are held at top inside the notches, and sunk into 1" of gravel (ontop filter plate) at the bottom.
Then, it was time for musical fish...
I left Rigel the BIG blue betta and added Reena my biggest BLUE female betta on the other side. Well, Rigel was some excited and so was Reena. She was not scared at all, in fact, she was trying to get at him!!!
The other tank has Shelby the small blue and little red Ruby. Now that they have their own 'turf', neither Shelby or Ruby are hiding any more. The can see each other and have no horizontal lines anymore (for a while the both looked more like zeebra's than betas)
It was about 5 hours of work and cost me $10.00 in acrylic, but now, at least, the bio-load is much better and no one is in danger of being attacked.
Hope this works out (especially a male and female beside each other).
