Community betta experience

[sunflower430]

Tell me all of your personal experiences with betta in community tanks! I am considering trying one out, but I have only ever had solo betta tanks so I'm nervous. How did they work for you? Male or female? What tank mates? Tank size? Would you do it again? Anything else I should know? Thanks!

 

[StarGirl]

I wouldnt. Just for the fact that they gorge themselves with community tank feedings. I have had both sexes. Doing it right now and its a pain.

 

[Thunder_o_b]

I am an advocate of keeping male bettas solitary. That being said I have kept them in community aquariums successfully. Just do not keep them with tetras like neons.

This is a planted 44 pent that worked out ok. Tank mates were angels and corys. Plants are live. I was using UG filters with power heads, and a HOB at that time.

Would I do it again? Maybe. I have done it several times but I think a planted ten gallon with one betta is better.

Female bettas in a community have always been ok.

 

[fishnerd1111]

I had a betta sorority(15 female bettas, a pair of dwarf gouramis, Bolivian rams, platies, mollies, guppies, and BNs.) it worked really well for me. the feeding part was sometimes difficult. I always made sure to feed my bettas and other fish separate. that took a while to get all the fish to do right. I'm not against betta community tanks I would get something like a large(15-20) school of chili rasboras or neon tetras. I had a 33 gallon tank. I would do it again in a heartbeat. I now have 3 betta tanks getting tank mates for them soon. I will get ADFs, pygmy corydoras, chili rasboras, and green neon tetras.

If I could choose a different tank size I would go with a 55 gallon, although

I am an advocate of keeping male bettas solitary. That being said I have kept them in community aquariums successfully. Just do not keep them with tetras like neons.

This is a planted 44 pent that worked out ok. Tank mates were angels and corys. Plants are live. I was using UG filters with power heads, and a HOB at that time.

Would I do it again? Maybe. I have done it several times but I think a planted ten gallon with one betta is better.

Female bettas in a community have always been ok.

why no neons? not that I doubt but I have never heard anyone say that.

I saw your post after I typed all the other that I wrote and don't want to delete it :^).

 

[fishywoo]

Tell me all of your personal experiences with betta in community tanks! I am considering trying one out, but I have only ever had solo betta tanks so I'm nervous. How did they work for you? Male or female? What tank mates? Tank size? Would you do it again? Anything else I should know? Thanks!

Never kept them with anything besides snails. Right now I have a female who long ago gave up knocking them off the glass. Neither are bothered by each other's presence.

Just quarantine everything you plan to put together separately if they're from different tanks/vendors. Not always easy to do and not always necessary, but you never know.

 

[sunflower430]

Never kept them with anything besides snails. Right now I have a female who long ago gave up knocking them off the glass. Neither are bothered by each other's presence.

Just quarantine everything you plan to put together separately if they're from different tanks/vendors. Not always easy to do and not always necessary, but you never know.

Yes I am a very slow adder of new fish... learned the hard way a few years ago with a new white skirt tetra that I didn't notice right away had ich and had to treat my whole main tank... didn't lose anyone but my silicon never quite returned back to its original color

 

[Thunder_o_b]

why no neons? not that I doubt but I have never heard anyone say that.

Neons have a well noted history as nippers of long flowing fins. They can't help themselves. Often the betta puts up with it for a while and then starts taking out the neons out one by one, or the betta dies from the stress.

 

[fishnerd1111]

Neons have a well noted history as nippers of long flowing fins. They can't help themselves. Often the betta puts up with it for a while and then starts taking out the neons out one by one, or the betta dies from the stress.

wow I never heard that will do some more research.

 

[StarGirl]

Dunno....had 2 females that were so stuffed that they were laying on the sand today. The other fish need to eat too but piggys eat ALL THE FOODS......depends on how pig your betta is IMO.