Finally Found Some Tank Mates For My Agressive Vt Betta

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Well up until now, my betta had no be housed with no other living creature due to his agressiveness- i once tried to put an apple snail in his tank but he tried to bite its tenticles off almost as soon as i put the little critter in the tank- fish tankmates were completely out of the question and still are, athough...
The other day i was cleaning out my main tank and disposing of the many trumpet snails that had recently risen in numbers in the tank, there were 2 large ones in particular that i had let grow for some time for no particular reason, but i was so irretated with the booming population of trumpet snails i took them out to dispose of them.
Then i had a thought.
I knew trumpet snails will eat pretty much anything that gets to the bottom of the tank, and i had been having difficulty feeding my betta recently as some days he'll eat alot and others he won't be interested in food at all, and as a result food often gets left at the bottom of his tank which i have to clean up all the time.
So i figured i'd put the 2 trumpets in his tank to see if they'd help me out clean up his tank when he's not interested in food. I was expecting him to turn on them, but instead to my suprise he barely took notice of them at all. I think it might have somthing to do with the fact trumpet snails have very short tenticles and move very slowly most of the time so he doesn't realy notice them, its also good because they have big apetites and won't stop eating as long as there's somthing to eat around.

I thought i might mention this to you guys as im sure there are some of you who cannot put anything with their bettas due to them being so agressive, perhaps you should try trumpet snails out? Sure, they are not particualy interesting snails, but they are good cleaners, and i would say my betta is a particualy agressive one and if he's not noticing them then perhaps trumpets do make good companions for these sorts of bettas .

 

[Synirr]

Maybe he thinks they're gravel.... moving gravel.
That's a good idea though, maybe I should pop some of my millions of trumpets in my betta tanks.

 

[Flashfire]

Good luck with your new combo! LOL!

 

[JoLtNbolt]

I've got some trumpet snails in my betta tanks... they're great! Although one of the synirr babes kept attacking them, the other bettas seem to completely ignore them.

Maybe he thinks they're gravel.... moving gravel.
That's a good idea though, maybe I should pop some of my millions of trumpets in my betta tanks.

Synirr, don't you already have some trumpet snails in with your bettas? I'm pretty sure I saw them in photos of one of your tanks.

 

[jollysue]

I put trumpets in everything. Certainly they are with the betta. My clown loaches have gotten so spoiled since I started buying black worms for the wild caught cories that they are even getting a foothold in the 100 usg community tank with three clown loaches.

When I first drop the trumpets in, the betta will dive for it, peck once, then if it is a particularly observant betta, it will eye it closely once or twice more and from then on it doesn't exist. I think trumpets are cute.

 

[Synirr]

Synirr, don't you already have some trumpet snails in with your bettas? I'm pretty sure I saw them in photos of one of your tanks.

They're in all my tanks 5 gallons and larger (except the dwarf puffer tank, hah!) so yeah, the boys in the split 10 gallon have snail tankmates. In some pics I've had bettas in my 10 gallon community, but there aren't any in it currently (not splendens, anyway )