male betta question

[ChristyLynn]

Can a male betta be put into a community tank? Namely with white clouds and
tetras?

[carlrs]

ChristyLynn wrote:
> Can a male betta be put into a community tank? Namely with white clouds and
> tetras?

I have placed bettas with white clouds and tetras successfully.
Sometimes the betta will not tolerate these fish, but from my
experience this has been the minority of the time. I would not
recommend betta with fancy guppies, larger tetras such as skirt tetra,
and many gouramis (but others have done so).
But this is kind of a grey question in which you will get a lot of
different right answers, as bettas often have very unique personalities
(which is part of their popularity).

Just be carefull and watch your fish behavior.

Good luck, Carl

[nut]

ChristyLynn wrote:
> Can a male betta be put into a community tank? Namely with white
> clouds and tetras?

Male fighters tend to only attack fish which they consider to be a threat to
their masculinity, ie anything with fancy tail fins, or anything small
enough to be considered food.

Avoid guppies, paradise fish, anything with pretty fins.

We have a male in our non-aggressive community - swordtails, gouramis,
danios, pl*co, loach, and a couple of mollies - and he's just fine.

We had a tetra in there - until the frog ate him - and the fighter wasn't in
the least bit interested in him.

We tried putting him in the livebearer tank for a bit, but he went ape****
and chased all the smaller fish around so we put him back in the community
tank.



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