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 Mike037


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Post Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:18 am GMT   Reply      

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!)



 celticwraith


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Post Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:51 am GMT   Reply      

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



 Mike037


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Post Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:44 pm GMT   Reply      

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.



 a1k8t3


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Post Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:29 pm GMT   Reply      

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



 Mike037


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Post Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:43 pm GMT   Reply      

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.



 cesaratnav


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Post Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:52 pm GMT   Reply      

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:(.



 Mike037


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Post Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:22 pm GMT   Reply      

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?



 Amd64User


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Post Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:06 am GMT   Reply      

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



 deuce1566


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Post Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:28 pm GMT   Reply      

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



 a1k8t3


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Post Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:50 pm GMT   Reply      

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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Post Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:09 am GMT   Reply      

Guppies, mollies,Ghost catfish or ghost fish are really cool looking too.



 dnimidej


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Post Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:03 pm GMT   Reply      

get some swordtails! or red serpae tetras! something that schools is always nice.! they swim allover the tank and will get along with anything.



 freshwaterpleco


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Post Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:11 pm GMT   Reply      

A pleco if the tank is a 55 or bigger



 saltwaterpimp


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Post Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:07 pm GMT   Reply      

lmao.. take it from some one who has a pleco in a 29 gallon tank..



 gumbii


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Post Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:52 pm GMT   Reply      

get a small school of CORYS!!!... i love cory cats...


and do you have any pics of these said "peacefull" bettas...? are they female..???


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