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r/bettafish

Betta Fish. A subreddit for all things related to our colorful finned friends. Check the wiki for care info! Founded 2012 · 348.6K members

349.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 17.2K upvotes, which works out to 49 per 1,000 members.

49peak upvotes per 1,000 members
349.6Kmembers
17.2Kbest post
1.9Kmost comments
409posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

40% 32% 17%
Gallery 40% Image 32% Video 17% Text 6% Question 3% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Help 143 Picture 80 Video 36 Discussion 33 Full Tank Shot 22 Humor 20 Introducing 17 Artwork 11 Identification 11 Name Suggestions 8

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Meet Max- he knows more tricks than my dog now

↑ 17.2K 💬 263 video 2017

Spotted at my local HomeGoods

↑ 17.2K 💬 175 image 2025

Is there anyone who can help me think of a nice name? It's hard to make a decision!

↑ 14K 💬 1.9K image 2024

“my betta doesn’t need a tank that big”

↑ 11.9K 💬 396 video 2024

I left my fish with a friend for a month and i’m about to cry

↑ 11.6K 💬 238 gallery 2025

First flare!

↑ 11.5K 💬 217 video 2026

Since you doubters don’t believe that Kilo is more bad ass then you’ll ever be, i had to take this photo picture of him. This is him in his natural h…

↑ 9.7K 💬 256 image 2025

Preparing the fish for his new owner. I posted on Tiktok and why does many comments insist on calling my betta fish a tampon fish? 😢 He’s a majestic…

↑ 9K 💬 239 video 2025

Betta be like:

↑ 8.3K 💬 128 image 2025

HE TRUSTS ME!! :’) I am officially his hammock.

↑ 8.1K 💬 182 video 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/bettafish, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/bettafish?
r/bettafish ("Betta Fish") describes itself this way: A subreddit for all things related to our colorful finned friends. Check the wiki for care info. It was founded in 2012 and has 348.6K members.
How many members does r/bettafish have?
r/bettafish has about 349.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 409 of its posts; the biggest reached 17.2K upvotes, which is 49 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/bettafish?
"Meet Max- he knows more tricks than my dog now" reached 17.2K upvotes and 263 comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/bettafish.
What subreddits are similar to r/bettafish?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/bettafish?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are gallery posts and 32% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/bettafish?
Across 409 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 20:00 UTC (5.5K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/bettafish?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/bettafish has 6.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 305 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/bettafish, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.