I ran into Petco yesterday because it was on my way home and I needed some stress coat. I saw the awful betta cups, and one was a dumb o half moon female. Pretty whitish blue grey, and I thought... "I can give her a better life than some ten year old with no understanding of a nitrogen cycle". I put the pretty thin in my established 36 gallon tank with 3 fancy guppies, 8 neon tetras, and some cory cat fish, 6 Pygmy and three juli. Also an incredible number of rcs. So, water parameters are A-0 N-0, NiA- 20ish. PH 7, GH 7, KH 3. Temp is steady at 76... which is on the cooler side for the betta...right? the cory cats do best under 78...this the goal of 76-77.
What do I need to look out for? So far she is peacefully interacting with the guppies. At first she flared a lot, but now the swim by and seem fine. She has established a space up under some water sprite, but is really all over the tank, but not in an agitated way. I feed the top feeders Omega One flakes and bug bites trooical, with two frozen food feeding a week. Daphanea, blood worms, brine shrimp.are rotated thru.
I have never had a betta a fish, and hope she can live safely in the 36. My 55 has zebra casinos and black skirt tetras, so way to nippy for her. In an emergency, she could move into a ten gallon DVD tank I have that currently houses a lone dumb o guppy that my other three guppies picked on.
So please let me know what to look out for, or advice etc! If this works, she will be the show piece of the tank...with no snowy make to outshine her she is gorgous!
Not great picfures, but she spends most time at the top like in one of the pics, but she also moved around the tank. The guppy appear to back off of she swims at tbem, mostly the ignore each other.
What do I need to look out for? So far she is peacefully interacting with the guppies. At first she flared a lot, but now the swim by and seem fine. She has established a space up under some water sprite, but is really all over the tank, but not in an agitated way. I feed the top feeders Omega One flakes and bug bites trooical, with two frozen food feeding a week. Daphanea, blood worms, brine shrimp.are rotated thru.
I have never had a betta a fish, and hope she can live safely in the 36. My 55 has zebra casinos and black skirt tetras, so way to nippy for her. In an emergency, she could move into a ten gallon DVD tank I have that currently houses a lone dumb o guppy that my other three guppies picked on.
So please let me know what to look out for, or advice etc! If this works, she will be the show piece of the tank...with no snowy make to outshine her she is gorgous!
Not great picfures, but she spends most time at the top like in one of the pics, but she also moved around the tank. The guppy appear to back off of she swims at tbem, mostly the ignore each other.
