Is this true

[Grim Reaper]

i heard that tetras eat bettas fins is this true??? i heard that in one of the forums on this website

 

[steppy104]

well...it was true for me.

 

[abe]

My tetras & female betta get along just fine, but maybe I'm just having good luck?

 

[steppy104]

depends on the fish's attitude n stuff....and what kind of tetra it is. the ones i had a bad expirience with was surpae tetra's....or something like that.

 

[Dane]

I've had tetras that would nip fins, and I had tetras that were quite docile.. so it really depends on who you buy lol.

 

[Grim Reaper]

i have neon tetras

 

[Whiskerz]

ive had a male betta and 2 female bettas in with my neons and they never bothered eachother

 

[luxum]

I had a betta who terrorized and killed neon tetras. Maybe they tried to get nippy with him one day and he snapped. Ornamental bettas have very variable temperment.

 

[SneakBetta]

My black skirt tetra never did anything to my betta's fins! It depends on the tetra and betta though.

 

[tear-scar]

The serpae tetra mentioned is a bad bet with the betta. I have 3, but I refer to them as the "raptors of the tank." They're very fast, very active, semi-aggressive, and at least as far as I've seen, they always out smarted the other fish when it comes to getting food. My serpaes, when well fed, leave my other fish alone and I like them a lot but . . .

They love to nip at each other (but their fins and body type are meant for this behavior), and if not kept in a big enough school, have a tendancy to rampage the rest of your fish.

A slow moving, long finned betta with serpaes would be little better than throwing an angel in with a school of tiger barbs . . . The other blood tetras will act just as bad as the serpaes. There are more docile tetras . . . do your homework before picking a species.