Can I put a female betta in my community tank?

[gale]

ALL of the fish in my sig are in my 20g right now, but I will be getting my 10g going this week and moving the pristella tetras out of the 20 and into the 10. Are the rest ok for living with a betta girl? Or can I put her in the 10 with the tetras (I will eventually have 5-6 of the pristellas and a couple of ghost shrimp)

 

[Tempestuousfury]

The problem I see is that you have too few tetras and barbs. They shoudl be kept in groups of 6+ in order to feel safe and keep them from nipping at other fishes' fins. There might be a real chance that a female betta, being slower and somewhat lethargic, might get nipped.

I would actually go for more of the tetras and babrs. Until you make the fish you have feel at home, you shouldn't add any other fish.

 

[gale]

The problem I see is that you have too few tetras and barbs. They shoudl be kept in groups of 6+ in order to feel safe and keep them from nipping at other fishes' fins. There might be a real chance that a female betta, being slower and somewhat lethargic, might get nipped.

I would actually go for more of the tetras and babrs. Until you make the fish you have feel at home, you shouldn't add any other fish.

From what I've read cherry barbs do not shoal/school like most barbs and glo lite tetras don't either. Is that not true? I read about the cherry barbs here in a lot of posts but just read about the glo lites at another fish site recently.

The pristellas won't be in the 20g after this weekend.

 

[The-Wolf]

I had 6 glo-light tetras and they never schooled with eachother
I am now down to two and they do stay with eachother most of the time.

My understanding of cherry barbs is that they also don't require the company of eachother.

now to answer the first question

I have a female betta in a community tank with no problems whatsoever.
IMHO go for it.

 

[xXMrBonesXx]

i thought cherry barbs were schoolers also when i bought 6 of them but all they did was pair off and go about the tank on their own, i also had a female betta in with a community of tropicals and she made sure everyone knew she was the queen

 

[gale]

Thanks everyone. I should probably add that my male molly can be somewhat of a nipper but so far only toward the other mollies (both female). He mainly only does it at feeding time (he's a hog).

 

[tekknocolor]

I have my females in the a community tank with other tropicals and they do great. No one got hurt since they were able to make their presence in the existing pecking order.