Can You Keep Betta And Small Goldfish Together?

[Honeythorn]

It's not so much bright colour as long flowing fins. Which is why male guppies are not reccomended. Bettas are an agressive species by nature so there are quite a lot of even plain fish you shouldn't keep with them.

It also depends on where you got the betta too I think. As discussed in another thread, I think store bought fish who are used to seeing and being with other species stand a better chance of being able to be kept with a variety of tankmates than breeder bought or cup stored fish who see either other males only and flare at them all day, or nothing but the inside of a cup.

Getting lucky with your particular fish doesn't man the species as a whole is fine with bright colours or long fins in tankmates.

 

[woodstock]

Lol Volleyball_rox, I just realized. Why would you say "Help!" at the end of your sentence if you wouldn't put them together, etc? Or would you explode from curiousity? Haha

 

[Volleyball_Rox]

Lol Volleyball_rox, I just realized. Why would you say "Help!" at the end of your sentence if you wouldn't put them together, etc? Or would you explode from curiousity? Haha

LoL I put Help because online there were too many mixed answers and my bro is buying a goldfish for his friend to take back to college and I dont want a goldfish, I want a platy, but I was curious if they are compatable.

 

[silverrabbit]

As I said in your other thread - goldies are coldwater and if you put them in warmer water, their metabolisms will speed p and so will make even MORE poo than normal. Trust me, I have fancy goldfish and they do not stay small - my black moor was 1 inch last march and he is now 7inches they need A LOT of space - 5 gallons is not enough and the fish wouldn't grow properly.

Goldfish can also be quite temperamental, and might try and chase a betta

 

[Volleyball_Rox]

As I said in your other thread - goldies are coldwater and if you put them in warmer water, their metabolisms will speed p and so will make even MORE poo than normal. Trust me, I have fancy goldfish and they do not stay small - my black moor was 1 inch last march and he is now 7inches they need A LOT of space - 5 gallons is not enough and the fish wouldn't grow properly.

Goldfish can also be quite temperamental, and might try and chase a betta

Thanks for the advice, I ended up getting an orange one inch platy, and they are quite compatable, so far.

 

[cheekysbabe]

Dont saying that it should be done or whatever. I would not do it.

However, One person at college did have goldfish and a red fighter in the same tank.

Please I am not saying that it should be done. Im just sayng that I have seen them in the same tank.

I do not know however they ended-up but I do now that they where in there for 6 months together, while at college.

 

[woodstock]

Don't think you should worry anymore, she's gotten herself a platy and was just curious about the thought of a goldish and betta together

 

[GuppyGoddess]

Don't think you should worry anymore, she's gotten herself a platy and was just curious about the thought of a goldish and betta together

Watch the platy. I had one with a female betta and they seemed fine for a number of days and then one morning, I woke up to find a big chunk of the betta's fin missing! I took the platy back and the fin on my betta healed up just fine.

 

[silverrabbit]

I have one of my males in with platies and they get on well, platies are nice fish