Fish that are lower maintenance than goldfish

What about a betta?

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What is it about bettas that they need so little water. Can they live in
very acidic
low PH, water? Can they put up with more ammonia, nitrite, nitrate than
other fish?
Do they need less oxygen? Can i put ONE in a big tank full of Goldfish?
....Kodiak

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What about a betta?

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www.bettatalk.com

Kodiak wrote:

What is it about bettas that they need so little water. Can they live
in very acidic
low PH, water? Can they put up with more ammonia, nitrite, nitrate
than other fish?
Do they need less oxygen?

The biggest answer to the above is they have an organ called a labyrinth
that allows them to breathe air from the surface. (Neat, eh?) So they
do not solely rely upon dissolved O2 in the water for their oxygen.

Can i put ONE in a big tank full of
Goldfish?

"Can" denotes "physically possible" so the answer is "yes." ;-)

Is it a good idea? Probably not.

-D
--
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving
that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the
proof." -Galbraith's Law

Can i put ONE in a big tank full of
Goldfish?

"Can" denotes "physically possible" so the answer is "yes." ;-)

Is it a good idea? Probably not.

My betta absolutely hates water surface movement. I imagine putting him in the
goldfish tank would make him incredibly stressed. I added a tiny corner filter
to his tank and he flipped out and hid, refusing to come out (except rushing to
the surface to breathe) until I turned it off a couple of hours later. The same
thing happened when I tried it a second time. Probably it would have been okay
if he'd been around a filter since fry-hood, I don't know...