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Tank mates ideas for male bettas2007-11-24 23:40:21

What are good tank mates for male bettas? I want to get my daughter a bigger tank and some more fish but I don't want Spike (her betta) to attack them. Thanks for any ideas!

Answers:

If it's a tank larger than 5 gallons. Then most peaceful community fish will be fine. Avoid very small fish. Faster fin nipper like larger tetras, and barbs. Avoid slow moving fish, and ones with flowy fins like male fancy guppy. Platty/swordtail, molly, killifish, neon tetras (note very small neons may end up food), cory cats, small breed pelco, and the like are good canidates for betta tank mates. As always avoid other bettas male or female.

The important things to remember: The tank will need places to hide. Don't put the betta into the tank alone. He will bond to the tank and eastablish a territory. Put his old tank right next the the new tank, and let him get use to seeing other fish in the new tank for about a week.

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Well, here it goes. I am by no way a fish expert but I have put my male betta in a community tank so I can tell you what I did. My betta is in a tank with a couple platties, a dwarf frog, and some tetras. I have heard that you want to stay away from adding other aggressive fish to a tank with a betta or fish with large tails (like the bettas have). Fish like barbs are tail bitters and are more then likely not the best choice either.

I hope this helps :)

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None, anything smaller than him will likely become lunch, anything bigger seen as a threat and attacked.