Female Bettas With Neons? 10 Gallon

[nikkifro8994]

I currently have a 10 gallon with 1 glofish, 1 zebra danio (had 6, 4 died), 2 harlequin rasboras (had 6, 4 died), and 5 neon tetras. When the danio and glofish die, I was thinking about adding 4 or 5 female bettas. Will they be okay with the neons? I know that males and neons don't get along so well. I could add a lot of plants for the neons. Right now it has fake bamboo coming out of a rock, a fake coral piece, and a log.

The filter is for a 20 gallon tank, so filter wise I'm sure I'd be fine. But I don't want to overcrowd the fish. Also, down the line could I add some corys? Then I'd have a group of top swimmers, middle swimmers, and bottom dwellers. I've checked every fish store withing 45 minutes of my house and NONE of them sell pygmy corys. a few of them do sell green corys, peppered corys, and albino corys.

Thanks!
Nikki

 

[Tuxyu3]

That would most certainly be too overcrowded. You also need need to sort out your Harlequins IMO.

 

[KuronoEnyo]

Should seriously upgrade to a 20g if you want to keep that many fish, I mean I did and now I'm very happy with my tank size I could have four school's of fish in my aquarium if I wanted. (Thats if each school has only 5 members anyways)

 

[nikkifro8994]

Ok. What about ONLY female bettas? Could I have 5? There would definitely be lots of hiding places. Would 3 Corys be ok with the 5 bettas or is that too crowded?

 

[KuronoEnyo]

Ok. What about ONLY female bettas? Could I have 5? There would definitely be lots of hiding places. Would 3 Corys be ok with the 5 bettas or is that too crowded?

I'd say ditch the cory idea, so you can have them in at least a group of six some day, and put in some type of shrimp. 5 fem's in a 10g sounds okay... I have no personal experience with them but I don't approve of keeping a schooling fish in a group of 3 6-8 is a better minimum.

Anyways you'll probably do what ever you want and if it works it works. If not you were warned