Hello. I cant make up my mind. I'm getting a 40 gallon aquariums, and I dont know what to get. I either want to get.... Guppies, mollies, 2 piranhas, a chiclid and a betta. Which one? I want to get a betta, but first, will you tell me which it will NOT get along with? I know pirahas can get along with most fish. But can a betta work with chiclids?
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40 gallons isn't large enoughf or piranhas and piranhas won't work with most fish.
bettas won't work with any of those fish you mentioned - cichlids are usualy far too aggressive (though you need to be mroe specific - which species of cichlid do you eman?). Bettas mistake guppies for other bettas and may attack them. Remember that male bettas need to be kept singly. If placed togther or with females, they'll fight and kill each other.
Mollies can work with bettas but mollies tend to dislike bettas and may harass them.
before you consdier buying any fish, set up your tank with a filter, heater, hood and lights and add de-chlorinated water. Having bought yourself a test kit for ammonia, nitrIte and nitrAte, you need to start a fishless cycle.
read the link in my signature about how to do this. You see, youc an't just add a bunch of fish to a new tank - they'll die - you need to first make sure the water and tank is safe for them
bettas won't work with any of those fish you mentioned - cichlids are usualy far too aggressive (though you need to be mroe specific - which species of cichlid do you eman?). Bettas mistake guppies for other bettas and may attack them. Remember that male bettas need to be kept singly. If placed togther or with females, they'll fight and kill each other.
Mollies can work with bettas but mollies tend to dislike bettas and may harass them.
before you consdier buying any fish, set up your tank with a filter, heater, hood and lights and add de-chlorinated water. Having bought yourself a test kit for ammonia, nitrIte and nitrAte, you need to start a fishless cycle.
read the link in my signature about how to do this. You see, youc an't just add a bunch of fish to a new tank - they'll die - you need to first make sure the water and tank is safe for them
yeah, i realize that now, I looked up piranhas and see thats too small. I can't decide what kind of chiclid I want! What would you recomend? I want to breed them, but dont know what kind. I can spend 100 dollars on fish and decor, and I already have a TON of decor. Thanks in advance
For a 40g the only cichlid I'd put in something that small to breed is a pink convict.
a 40 gallon is a good breeding size for quiet a few things, yes you can do convicts which are pretty easy, you can do discus, rams, kribensis, angel fish, etc, the list goes on and on, it would be better for you to do some research and find somthing you like, then we can tell you if it would be ok or not. but i agree with sylvia, get that tank cycling first, then you can start looking around at what is available for you.
pica_nuttalli
don't be a twit
um, skip the convicts unless you know a place that wants to buy hundreds of baby convicts every year... or get ready to do some serious culling.
check out the dwarf cichlids on Aquabid.com . most of those are pretty easy to breed (if you have soft water) and almost all of the apistogrammas are stunning fish. if you think that the dwarf cichlids would suit you, but you're in the UK, dig around in our Buy, Sell, Swap forum. there's a British guy that periodically advertises various imported dwarf cichlids.
check out the dwarf cichlids on Aquabid.com . most of those are pretty easy to breed (if you have soft water) and almost all of the apistogrammas are stunning fish. if you think that the dwarf cichlids would suit you, but you're in the UK, dig around in our Buy, Sell, Swap forum. there's a British guy that periodically advertises various imported dwarf cichlids.
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