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Old 14-03-2009, 07:04 PM
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Re: Suggestions for a little 21 litre tank?

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Originally Posted by Cage confused View Post
if your getting siamese fighting fish, try not to get more than one in a tank. they can live okay with some other small fish, but even the females are territorial.usually they only stick with each other to breed. and if you have one male and 2 females, they will breed, and if there are male babies, the father will fight, usually to the death because the baby has no where to hide
it is very unlikely that fighters will breed. if they manage to hatch babies out, the babies unless very very well looked after by humans will die when they are a few days old because as they are developing their laberinth gland, they take a first gulp of air and if the air is not the right humidity and temperature it will not develop and the baby will not survive. I don't think there are any problems with having babies that could fight with the dad. Also if the male makes the bubble-nest, the female is likely to destroy it.
To me its crueler to keep one male fighter all on its own than to put a female with him, but everyone thinks differently.

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