Betta brownorum

[jammedfool]

LFS has some Betta brownorum just in

Anyone had these before? They look interesting as they say can be kept in a group

[Vale!]

I have a pair - not brownorum but from the same group, I believe : B. cocchina?

[jammedfool]

Heres the post they put up



I think they look great!

Edit: unfortunately, SF suggests they need really soft water... is that the same for all bettas? They say 1-15'gdh for splendens

[plankton]

Bettas are softwater fish, although the farmed and tank-bred splendens do tend to take harder water than the wilds.
These will probably be wild, I'm not sure any are farmed yet, so will need the soft water and low ph.

[Feather_Borb]

Betta mahachaiensis like hard water or brackish water so they're not all soft water species.

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[plankton]

Betta mahachaiensis like hard water or brackish water so they're not all soft water species.

I should have put mainly softwater, thanks for pointing that out.

[jammedfool]

I like them too... will keep my eye out!

Seems like with a few species of Betta they are less determined to kill anything that looks vaguely like them? I'd be interested to see if mahachaiensis would be ok in with my cherries and praecox, instead of the cacatuoides I was going to try with

[plankton]

I think they need a brackish season if they aren't kept in brackish all the time (it's a long time since I researched bettas, but I think that's what I remember).
The other fish won't like that.
It was one of the reasons I never looked at keeping them. The other was cost.....