Venture Into Betta Land

[Helen G]

Hi all, I have been offered a 40 litre tank ( for nuffin!!!) and have always been intreagued by bettas. I was thinking maybe I would try keeping one, but I don't know the first thing about them. Can they only live alone, or can they have some tankmates?

 

[Phoenixbaby]

Depens whether ur going to keep males or females in all honesty

If u decide a male, males must be kept alone, not other male and no females

If u keep Females then u will need a group of 4 or more

hope this helps

 

[Helen G]

I guess I would have a male maybe, but can I not keep him with a different species of fish?

 

[Phoenixbaby]

Depends on what species?

 

[Helen G]

Basically space fillers that are compatible, any suggestions?

 

[Phoenixbaby]

im not sure tbh

i used to have sparkling gouramis, and they were fine

maybe some1 else has suggestions?

 

[Netty]

One of my males lives with Cory's and they are fine and really fun to watch.

 

[doresy]

I have my boy in with small corys. If you just want to fill space then you could always use a tank divider on a tank that size and have 2 boys maybe

 

[Helen G]

When I said tank filler, I would like something that doesn't bland into the background.

 

[groupiekilla06]

I've heard of people keeping them with bottom feeders such as corydoras or otocinclus. I've also heard of them being kept with zebra danios. You wanna stay away from barbs and tetras as they do tend to become fin nippers and will nip at your betta's flowy fins.

 

[OldMan47]

I have each of mine with a few platies. The platies are sort of colorful and encourage the betta to get out and swim around more. Both my male bettas also have a few corydoras in there with them. Cories are not the bottom dwellers some people think they are. They are very active, swimming about in the tank if you have at least 4 or 5 of them.

 

[LauraFrog]

All peaceful livebearers are suitable - platies, gentle sphenops mollies, endlers, guppies. Betta + male endlers = colourful display.

 

[liz2]

you need to buy tank mates from an lfs that will take them back if you have problems. Some bettas are fine some are just downright stroppy.

 

[Helen G]

Would guppies be ok?

Or do you think they might have fin envy?

 

[LauraFrog]

Fancy guppies with long flowing fins are problems with a lot of bettas. They think it's another betta and shred its fins. The guppies are lucky to survive. That's why endlers are better because most of them are roundtail or shortfin flagtail.