I have a cycled,filtered 10 gallon freshwater betta tank with a male betta and 5 ghost shrimps and a bunch of silk plants.
The betta does not eat or bother the ghost shrimps, he just looks at them and swims away.
What other fish, or animal like ghost shrimps can live with my betta? and if its a fish can you please say names of fish that are not very messy?
any kind of fish can live with a betta besides another male betta. trust me i know! haha they’ll do perfectly fine together. ive had guppies,goldfish, feeder fish and crabs with my betta’s and they were fine.
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I have Zebra Danios with mine. They seem to get along fine. You could get Glofish (colorful Danios) for some more flash in the tank. 6 Danios or Glofish would be best because they school.
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Not! any fish can be put in with betta’s no fin nippers or aggressive fish can be put in with them as the fin nippers will eat the fins and it will fight with aggressive fish I would watch what fish you put in a 10g tank as a lot of fish will out grow the tank a good site to look at will be
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/aquarium-fish-supplies.cfm?c=830
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I’ve had a beta in with my fancy goldfish for four years and have had absolutely no problems.
Try it out, if you see any problems, separate the betta immediately, though.
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Male bettas can be very tricky fish. The problem is some of them get along with lots of fish just fine, while others are very aggressive and one day will eat everything in your tank. They definitely have their own personalities. Your best bet would be a small school of fish that wouldn’t introduce too much ammonia into your relatively small tank and would group together to make less of a target in the event your betta gets hungry. Danios, or small tetras (like neons) are OK, but remember fin nippers like tiger barbs will actually nip at the long flowing fins of your betta and will do harm to him.
By the way…bettas in the wild live in shallow pools of relatively calm water and in my experience tend to do better in smaller, low current tanks rather than tanks with lots of filtering with flowing water at the top. Remember, bettas are top feeders and prefer to eat their floating pellets off of calm waters, while these schooling fish are middle feeders and will likely need a different food (flake vs. pellet) while your shrimp need to eat off the bottom with something that sinks…variety is the spice of fish life. Just a recommendation, but you might want to turn the filter off while you’re feeding if you’re not doing that already.
Whatever you decide, keep your eye on them, especially for the first couple of days, and have a back up plan if you need to give your new fish a new, safer home.
Good luck!
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I don’t agree with Liz – my roommate had a school of guppies in her 20g, and she added a betta… within a day and a half, only a couple of the guppies had any tails left and they were all dead in the next couple days.
She put a couple Indian dwarf puffers in there with the same betta, and they’d killed it in a few days. You gotta be careful with these things…
Bettas will attack most other fish that have flowing tails – they mistake them for other bettas. Tetras tend to work good, as do most bottom-feeders (plecos, corys, etc). Conversely, make sure that the fish that you put in there aren’t fin-nippers either or your betta will get pwnt bad.
Whatever you do, DO NOT put them in with an elephant-nose fish. Bad, bad things happen.
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any small fish would be fine. make sure they are not big and have large fins. for example you can have neon tetras and betta wont attack it because its small and have small fins. which betta cant nip on. the best fish i seen is the rummy nose tetra. its awesome because it school well and looks nice. but its little larger. but betta might not attack it either.
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Ember tetras would be nice
EDIT:
~Danios need 20+ gallons and prefer fast flowing water
~Goldfish are coldwater and bettas are tropical
~Bettas do not prefer smaller tanks
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A Piranha?
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