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Post by mickey85 on Oct 13, 2003 12:41:19 GMT -5
I was reading Goldstein's book "Bettas" today and got to the part about housing in dedicated tanks. He said: "Fish not of show quality may be grouped together in large tanks, the males removed if they become belligerent." What?!? Since when was it OK to put males in together? Or am I misreading this?
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Megan
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Post by Megan on Oct 14, 2003 17:37:31 GMT -5
It is possible to keep males together in a large tank or pool if they are from the same spawn and have never been seperated before. Of course, there has to be a lot of plants, hiding spots, etc... so that they don't tear each other to shreds... this is probably what Walt was refering to when he mentioned keeping males together; males of the same spawn that had never been seperated. If you put two males together that had been jarred for a period of time, they would probably find each other and beat the heck out of each other no matter how large the tank was.
He also mentions removing the males "once they become belligerent", which means that he is probably referring to removing them from the large grow-out tank once they get old enough to start fighting... I think he is mainly just referring to a large grow out tank of fry, and keeping the females together, and then "removing the males once they become belligerent"... I don't think he's really saying that males can be kept together at all.
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Post by mickey85 on Oct 14, 2003 18:16:48 GMT -5
Oh OK. I was just a bit confused about why he was saying that males could be kept together. I guess I was reading it wrong, then.
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