I like the white-ish female betta. She looks pretty.

aww pretty ^^ and that's relatively good photo quality for a phone camera o.o

very pretty. I'll be cleaning my tank soon and thinking of adding some new additions to the fishy family.

I just got me a betta fish for christmas at my Dad's. But, how did you manage to have all three bettas together without any of them going toe-to-toe with each other?

Only one of them is male. You can keep females together as long as you have at least 3 of them. They will establish a pecking order but after that they'll leave each other alone.

those are very pretty fishies, and no i don't want to eat them like your craw fish

heh heh pretty fishies ^ ^

<3 I love bettas. I have 3-- and two more empty fish bowls.

If I ever find a purple one and an orange/yellow one, I shall purchase them.. and my rainbow of fish will be nearly complete!

Too bad you don't live here there's a very orange one where I work. I think there's some purple-ish ones too. We have a lot of bettas right now.

Awesomeness! love how you have the plants set up very relaxing your right

so prettyyyyyyy *.*

Damn I have to look at these damn betas everyday out of the internet world and I am looking at them on the internet. Goddammit there is no escaping these fuckers!

Well why don't you cry about it. =P

Theron never crys *Tear goes down Theron's cheek*

How did you get the bamboo for the one tank?

There's this asian market nearby that sells it by the bunch.

So you just cut them to size and put them in?

I didn't cut mine cuz they were all different lengths - then I just poked them down into the gravel. That's one of the nice things about bamboo, it'll grow in anything as long as it has a water source. It also doesn't need a lot of light so I don't have to get special lights for my tank either.

Wow, nice setups!

But I see a few problems and I suspect you'll end up with some dead fish if you don't fix them. :C

Keeping a male betta in with females is asking for trouble, it's a ticking time bomb. They may be fine for days, weeks, and even months, but eventually they could kill each other. Why take the risk, you know? I suggest separating them, then adding in 2-3 more females in the 10gal.

You MIGHT be able to get away with keeping a male with females if you had a larger tank (around 40 gallons or larger) and putting more hiding places. But even then, why the risk?

The goldfish look like comet or common goldfish, which need 20 gallons of water EACH. So your ammonia is likely to go through the roof soon, and may start killing off fish. If you keep them in that tank you'll have to do water changes 2-3 times a week or so just to keep the ammonia at a safe level. Plus the fish in question get around 15" and up. Try re-homing a few, starting a pond, or upgrading them to a larger tank if you want them to be healthy/happy.

Oh, also! The bamboo will die if you keep the leaves underwater. It sucks so bad, but it happens. If you could find a way to elevate the stalks then it'd be cool, but they look too short. I guess you could keep them in there until they start dying, though. No need to take them out right away.

I'm sorry if I come off as pushy or rude, I just think your tanks look nice and I figured I'd warn you about some problems I see.

Yeah I know - the male is only in there temporarily, I have a little 1 gallon aquarium that is currently housing a crawdad. I'll be getting rid of her when the weather warms back up and the male will get his own tank. I also found out that one of my females is a male, so far no problems because he's still really small but I'm going to give him to my mom. This will eventually be a female-only tank.
The goldfish are leftover from days before I knew any better, and you know how comets are they never die! I really would rather just get rid of a few and only keep the shabunkins, but no one I know has tanks or a pond I can give them to. =/ As it is now, I just keep up on water changes the best I can and I use an AquaClear filter with BioMax, which is good for overstocked tanks as it takes care of ammonia. I will say I'd love to get a 55 gallon when I get into my own apartment here in a couple months, so maybe hanging onto them won't be so bad.
I've never had problems keeping bamboo in an aquarium, in fact the last time I had it in there it did really well until some crawdads I had ate it. I'd really love to do an actual planted tank but I've been researching it and its a whole different setup - you gotta have a different substrate underneath the gravel, different lighting etc. More trouble than I care to deal with so I'll stick to plastic plants for now.

Which one of your females is male? They all look female to me?

It's good that you have plans for your fish, that makes me happy lol.

Planted tanks aren't really that high maintenance. Just get a good light and you won't even need a good substrate, then pick some low light low CO2 plants like anubias and voila! I've had several and I loved having them.

Its the red one...this has happened to my mom and sister too, I guess its hard to tell young males from females. I've looked for the little egg tube but I don't see one, and the fins are getting suspiciously long. =p

If you got a better photo, I could sex her for you. She SEEMS like a veil tail female, if I could see her ventrals better I could tell you. Some females get longer fins, and don't show much of an ovipositor but are still definitely female.

But you're right, sometimes young male resemble females.

I'll see if my mom's camera can get a better shot of her/him. I've looked and looked and I don't see anything down there. I can see it quite clearly on all the other females though.

Ok cool n___n