Betta_dude

Will cherry barbs leave my betta alone in my new tank?(the 38g)I'm more worried about my betta than the barbs.

sirdarksol

Not likely. Cherry barbs can nip fins.

Tazmiche

Hi, i have cherry barbs and i adore them. They had a few guppies with them for a while and all was ok until one morn when i found one guppy in shreds dying! not a nice sight!!

I would definately say NEVER EVER put a betta with barbs of any kind. As i say i love barbs, i have checkered barbs too, i keep my bettas alone in smaller tanks. They need warmer water anyway and florish this way.

Barbrella

I love my cherries and have been keeping them for more than 15 years. None have ever nipped anyone's fins, but I guess it's possible.

I wouldn't keep them with bettas, if only for the fact that the betta would never get any food with these greedy, fast barbs snatching everything!

Tazmiche

lol!!! Aren't cherry barbs a dream that sadly don't get enough press!!!!! i adore mine!! i think they look like mini hells angels with their face markings!! LOVE them. BUT they did kill a guppy. Nature so never been cross with them......they make me smile

BipBop

I put a tiny female betta in with my cherry barbs, and she promptly chased them around and chewed a hunk of fin off a barb. This girl was half their size! Out she went.

Haven't tried a male betta with the barbs. I'm waiting to go from a 10 gallon to a 29 gallon where everyone will have more room to hide if necessary. So it might work in a 38 gallon, but I'd say your safer keeping one betta with dull-colored fish. Maybe if they were all female cherries, since they're not as colorful.

Butters

well, I have experimented with this before. I put Tom, my male betta, in with my 4 cherrys in a 10 gallon tank. He immediatly flared up and puffed his gills out and started chasing them all over the tank! I thought it would be the other way around! so I threw him back into his 5 gal. So, I wouldnt recomend it

BipBop

LOL Butters....

I love my cherry barbs and I love my bettas but WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG? I've given up trying.

(Oh, I forgot; once I did put my meekest female betta in the 10 gallon with the 3 male cherry barbs, and things went swell for a few hours, but then she started showing stress lines and getting pale so I took her out.)