What other fish can you keep with a male betta in a 10-gallon aquarium?

Question

My pretty 3-gallon bowls keep breaking when I clean them, so I'm getting an aquarium because I always feel sorry for bettas in tiny bowls. But since I'm making the investment, what else can I put in there?

Answer 1

Hurray for bettas in tanks :D
Anyway, you can go with a school of tetras, or a few livebearers, as your bettas tank mates. Any of the small tetras will do - this includes neons, cardinals, lemons, glowlights - as wel as harlequin rasboras or danios. Get a school of 7-8 of one type (as different types will not school together).

OR you get some platies. Don't get guppies - the long tail may confuse the betta into thinking it's another male. You could get 1 male, 3 female platies.

If you have plants, you could get a small school of oto cats (also feed them zucchini and spirulina pellets).

Snails and african dwarf frogs are also good tankmates for bettas. You could, for example, have the betta, 2 ADFS, and a mystery snail, and 4-5 tetras.

Answer 2

It depends on your bettas temperment, the only fish I can think of are otoclunis, hillstream loach aka butterfly loach, chinese alagae eater, bronze cory cats. Some aqautic species I know would do fine are dwarf african frogs and ghost shrimp.
Otocinclus Catfish- grows to about 1.8 inches
Hillstream loach-grows to about 2 inches
Cory cats- grow to be about 2 inches

What I would do is be sure to get plenty of plants and at least two hideouts, one for the betta and one log like one for the cories. I would get 2 frogs, 3 cories, 1 loach, 2 otocinclus, and 3 shrimp if you want. The tank might be slightly overcrowded, but I have had that combo of fish and they were fine.

Thanks for rescuing that betta from bowls and buying a ten gallon, good luck!!!!!

Answer 3

White clouds are a good choice. Betta's are considered tropical community fish. Make sure the other fish aren't aggressive and fin nippers. I would opt for small fish like white clouds.

Answer 4

You can keep pretty much any of the tetra families, also pygmy cory cats.

Basically any fish without long fins, and any fish that aren't nippy.

Answer 5

you really should just keep it alone. if it's the bowl breaking you are worried about, you can get some really nice plastic ones that look just as nice.

http://www.cbsbettas.org/faq.html
http://www.versaquatics.com/bettas.htm
http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/anabantids2/p/betta.htm