shoaling bettas?

[Connor0729]

they say that you can lessen aggression in red tail sharks and the like by keeping them in groups of 3-5 or more. so what if you kept like 20 bettas in a 55 or something? i'm not going to try it, but i just think that this is an interesting topic. please post any of your opinions, and thanks in advance

 

[dragonfish]

I think it would be a waste of some bettas as they would constantly fight.

 

[AwolAngler]

Ya that has death written all over it

 

[wolfcichild027]

well actually it might work if the tank was a 55 and theyre were about 10 bettas instead of twenty my neighbor has 3 in his 55 along with other assorted fish betas are very teritorial but still one betta only controls a small area the larger the tank the more betta teritories there can be

 

[wangster11235]

i remember watching on animal planet before that there was a tank full of bettas
they breed 2 bettas and all the babies i think grew up in the same tank and none of them fought
they said if they removed the dad they would all start fighting

 

[rottbo]

actually a PHD student wrote a paper about this exact subjec awhile ago I read it it was a very good read.. but the jist of it was that as long as you have a dominant male you can keep hundreds together with no problem just when the dominant male is removed there is gonna be war untill there is a new dominant male chosen....

 

[HiGhTiMeZ]

ohhhhhh coooool!

 

[Guppy's_Hell]

interesting, a tank full of bettas would be an attention getter... you wouldnt know the name of that article you read would you?

 

[rottbo]

I found it on the net... I can try and find it later

 

[Guppy's_Hell]

i found an article on the guy that was interviewed by animal planet.... http://www.bettatalk.com/betta_behavior.htm this might be an interesting fishkeeping chanllenge.