will anything go in the tank with my betta?

Question

it can even be a crab i just want something with it and i dont want my betta to get hurt or the new thing to get hurt.

Answer 1

Before co-housing Siamese fighting fish with other species, their compatibility should be carefully researched, and the owner should have a back-up plan if the shared tank does not work. Although bettas are most aggressive towards each other, they have been known to kill very small fish or nip at the fins of fish such as fancy guppies; oftentimes, the betta will mistake their finnage for that of another male fish and attack the guppy. Certain fish should not be housed with bettas. Oftentimes, schooling fish become fin-nippers, making the betta a prime target because of their flowing fins. Also, aggressive fish like barbs should not be around bettas. Keepers have also reported problems when attempting to keep Betta in the company of piranha.

Answer 2

I dont know about a crab..but if you have other fish..they can go in with the Betta...just as long as it isnt another Betta. I've had bettas in with other fish and they never tried to hurt the other ones. But if/when you buy the crab..if you're still not sure, the person who helps you will be able to answer better.
Good luck..

Answer 3

I was at the store the other day and I saw a betta, red and blue, in a tank full of cardinal tetras. It was beautiful. There was 30 or 40 tetras and one betta. The store owner says it works out for him fine. Try a few tetras with your betta just to see. If it works out it will look superb!

Answer 4

You are best off leaving your betta in a bowl by its self.. They are very aggressive.. Chinese fighting fish. Usually the males are the aggressive ones, but females can be as well. They are beautiful fish but they do NOT play well with others... Try one of those glass vases they sell with plants on top.. Very beautiful decoration and the bettas find security within the water roots from the plants.. its a self sufficient ecosystem.. the plant lives off the water, the fish lives off the water and will eat from the roots. Mine lived for 7 years in that type of bowl... It was the largest betta i've ever seen. My current one is getting there..

Answer 5

Generally male bettas are quite happy alone. Males are generally only aggressive with other bettas. Females are terrorial with each other. Unless the other fish have big showy fins even the males are quite peaceful. One male betta I put in my community tank had to be removed as he was being picked on by the other fish. Females aren't much different from other community fish. (I've got 3 females in with my mollies, a pair of dwarf gouramis, and assorted sucker/bottom fish.)

In general any community fish will work. That say most teras, and barbs can be bad as they tend to be fin nippers. Any of the live bearers without long flowy tails (platies, mollies). Cory cats, glass cats. Most shrimp, and snails. (Note some of my betta think ghost shrimp are yummy during molt. One of my bettas hates black snails.) Sucker-fish, and other peaceful bottom feeders. (Just be sure that they aren't going to get huge later in life, or are predatory.) Crabs are bad as many are predatory, and betta like to rest on the bottum, and are slow swimmers.

Females can be housed together about 1 per 10 gallons. (More if they were raised as fry together.) Females aren't as aggressive to related fish like the dwarf gourami, and or showy finned fishes like lyre-tailed mollies as the males. (Remember that the most gouramis other than the dwarf are semi-aggressive, and not community fish.) Just be sure to give the bettas plenty of cover and hiding spots. If you want house multiple females together you should have more than 2, and put them all at once. (IE if you have one now and want 2 more put both new ones in at once.)

Answer 6

anything that can live in your tank except a boy Betta. Actually I had a bunch of fish and my Betta didn't hurt them but then i got a golden Guarami and he killed my other fish when he got big and then he started fights with my betta then killed my betta, now he's 3-4 years old and very neurotic and he's living with a 3 inch rainbow shark and another betta i just got... i haven't seen them fight at all.

Answer 7

Couple of things, first of all we need tank size, if your betta is in a bowl there is nothing else you can put. If you have a fair size, about five to ten gallons, you might want to try pygmy cories or shrimp. But don't house him with guppies as in many cases the guppy is confused with another betta and killed

Answer 8

Nothing will go together with a betta, my roomate and I each had one and we put in a neon tetra and a zebra danio in with it and mine killed both but his lived with the danio for a while until he left it for 2 weeks without food and it ate it. However it is possible to put a female betta in with a male but only during mating season otherwise they will be agressive outside of mating season. I belive mating season is in spring but not 100% sure. Good Luck

Answer 9

I know from experience the only other thing you can put with a Betta is greenery and the other gender beta if you intend to have baby bettas.

Answer 10

No, you can't put anything in with a betta. We were told that you could put them in with fairly non-aggressive fish (A/B or B/C), but it was a disaster. In the end, our betta died.