Can They Live In The Same Tank?

[Jakey02578]

Can a Betta live in the same tank with Guppies and Platys!?

 

[mike455555]

my female betta live happily with my platy, but i dont think they mix with guppies

 

[Jakey02578]

Cheers man!

 

[mike455555]

no problem =] iv not put a guppie in the same tank as her but shes in with a platty (was with 2 but one died, old age i think)no bite marks or aggressiveness towards the platty

 

[Jakey02578]

Great! Bettas are beautiful thats why i wanted to know!

 

[mike455555]

i love them to =D

 

[micko]

Apparently female guppies and a betta are fine but not male guppies as their fins are larger. I wouldn't have any of fish with a betta though, just my own preference.

 

[ParadiseGuerrero]

it depends entirly on the betta- mine is a soft touch and quite happily lived with the guppies and platies, and I've heard of others that are also like this but I've also heard of some that can't be put with anything because of agression and it's not unheard of to find guppies and platies to be fin nippers in which case the betta may not fair too well. So it depends entirly on the fish, sorry i can't answer your question difinitivly

 

[Didge007]

I have five girls with two male guppies and they are fine.

 

[Fishball7]

I wouldn't put them together, even though a lot of people do. Bettas like soft water while livebearers love hard water and minerals affect the bodily system of the fish.

 

[Hmongol]

My betta lives happily with 4 fancy tail guppies. Betta are not stupid... once they realized that the guppy is not a hostile betta they leave em alone. I think people perceive betta to be hostile to any colorful fan tails.

I've kept guppies with betta for almost two years now and nothing has happened. When I first introduced my guppies the betta did indeed flare as normally any betta would but after a few hours he realizes that the guppies show no response nor tries to stand up to him and now lives happily, but most people are right and it does depend on your betta although most normal betta besides plakat fighters can live in a peaceful community.

 

[LadyDragon]

As someone else mentioned, Bettas and livebearers like the opposite types of water... So while a vigorous and healthy fish COULD do it, it really is not in their best interest.

That said, I have in a pinch put one of my male Bettas (Gothie the black HM) in the Mollie community tank (because of lack of other options at the time) and he was fine for a couple days. But he is on the passive side, and I worried that my super aggressive sailfin lyretail balloon Mollie male (Kinglet) but the Mollie only showed minimal interest as he was to busy chasing the girl mollies, and the Berta just set up camp in my water hyacinth roots, occasionally flaring at a super pregnant guppy female who was looking at the plant as a birthing site. It wasn't even real aggression on the Bettas part, he just showed off his fins and gill plates for a second, investigated her, and then went back to the plant.

The INDIVIDUAL personalities of the fish are the most
Important. If your Betta is SUPER territorial and aggressive in disposition it probably isn't a smart idea. If he is laid back with a calm nature and a lazy streak... He probably won't care much who his company is.
They are kind of like people, some are more socially inclined than others... But you also have to remember that nature designed them to be anti-social, and humans selectively bred them to AMPLIFY that quality in order to make them little Gladiators and Gladiatrixs.

I'd worry about what kind of water makes them happiest (as their bodies are designed to work best in a certain kid of envrionment) before I started to worry who their personalities work with!

I mean we don't expect salt water fish to thrive in fresh water set ups (I hope) the PH of the water is just as important. A soft water fish is not going to thrive in a hard water set up or vice versa.