New community fish?

by **Mike0372983** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:18 pm

I have just put in 2 peacefull bettas, 2 assorted platties, and 9 neon tetrasin my new tank. I am just wondering if anyone has any ideas of new community fish that would be nice and compatible with the fish I already have.
(I made a poll about what fish I should get and community fish won!)

by **celticwraith** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:51 pm

How big is the tank? I have never heard of two betas being peaceful together if they are both male.

by **Mike0372983** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:44 pm

They are called "peacefull bettas", meaning they are compatible together... I never heard of them either untill my friend bought me two. They get along great together, an d at the fish store there was about 20 in the same tank so they are fine together. My tank is 30 gallon and I alrady have 15 fish so I can get about 15 more inches of fish.

by **a1k8t31524** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:29 pm

i keep white cloud minos with my beta they are great fish i also keep a few dwarf frogs too

by **Mike0372983** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:43 pm

I have seen the African dwarf frogs before but you have to feed them special food and I wouldn't be a fan of doing that everyday.

by **cesaratnav** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:52 pm

anytime you get a betta, make sure you don't get any gouramis of any kind, dwarf or normal size. apperantly they are from the same genus and absolutly hate each other. i had two pre-existing gouramis that i never had any problems with until my girl bought a betta male and put him in the tank. i've never seen my gouramis act so mean towards a new fish in the tank.fortunetly, i had time to take him back to the store before they tore him up, but they nipped him pretty good:(.

by **Mike0372983** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:22 pm

o sorry to here, but that is really good that you told me that beacause on about saturday I was thinking about getting some gouramis but I will be sure not to now. Do you know if rainbow fish are alright?

by **Amd64User4108** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:06 pm

I have 21 fish (7 species) in my 50 gallon tank. They all get along great, get some ideas off my fish website. http://mycomputerguy.hopto.org/fa.htm
My favorite are the black skirt tetra's, their peacefull and look great, the long fin's are awsome I want to get a few.

For pics of the long fin black skirt tetra check
http://www.picobay.com/fishcam/jfc_pesky.jpg

by **deuce1566** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:28 pm

I actually have two gouramis (one dwarf) in with a betta and I've never had any trouble with them.

by **a1k8t31524** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:50 am

the frogs will eat anything and everything they can shove into their mouths.....so if you do get one with your betta make sure that they are dwarf i had one of my regular clawed frogs try and swallow a 7in rubber eel...didnt work but he didnt seem like he wanted to give up untill i had to pull them apart...that was fun but a "special" diet i dont think is needed, mine love brine shrimp, blood worms, tubifex worms, kale, peas, sea weed, even fish pellets, like i said they will eat anything they can shove in their mouths. my regular clawed frogs favorite things were guppy feeders and gohst shrimp....

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