Betta okay in my community tank?

[heyimeugene]

HeLLo~! I have a 29 gal community tank well planted with the following fish...

4x Ghost Shrimp
3x Blue Gourami
2x Long-Finned Zebra Danio
2x Fancy Guppy
1x Red Tail Shark

My friend told me a Betta would do good in my tank and wont attack the other fish... is this true?

If so I'm off to LFS and getting a nice blue Betta

thanks!

 

[Ben]

it also depends on the bettas personality.................every betta is different

 

[james..]

Betta may attack the Danio or guppies.

If it attacks the gouramis, they will fight back and kill it.

 

[DOLORES]

if you want to fish to die the short answer is YES!

but now serious, dont put the betta in there! bettas and fancy long fins fishies dont got together, this will make the betta see their lovely fanci tails as a competition and start bittin them ! till he is sure his "enemies" are dead if you still have the betta in the cup PLEASE keep it there and go for a tank.... mmm a 2.5 will do really fine and is cheap a mini bow 2.5 from all glass aquarium comes with everythin and costs 30 bux , or go to th lfs and give it back ,

only good tankmates for bettas, are those with no-fancy fins , why do you think they can't be kept with other bettas? sometimes they cant even stand other fishes, even the ones with almost no tail thats what Bea/\/ meant about his personality, good tankmates usually are platys, tetras, barbs, coryz, otos, and those with NO LONG FINAGE!

hope that helped , plz dont put the betta in your community tnk, that i beg you!

 

[J_acon]

I got one betta in my community tank, is the only one i could put it. All the others would flare at the gouramis, this one is peaceful so he gets to enjoy the big tank.

 

[shrks1fan]

I've got to back up what's been said...A Betta will be trouble if you put it in that tank...Bettas do NOT get along with Guppies and Gouramis. The Betta sees the male Guppies as competition because of their tails and Gouramis are too close a species to them (they are both Labrynth fish), and they will fight. Also, the Danios may chase the Betta to nip at his fins, and the Betta will never be fast enough to get away from them. Bad news all around putting him in that tank.

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[heyimeugene]

Okay, thanks for all the replies!! So the Betta will not go in the 29 but I have a spare 10 in my garage I can use... thanks for all the feedback guys!