your betta might be okay...depends on the fish. as for the shrimp, they'd likely be okay. what kind of shrimp are you considering? your betta might attack them if they are really small.
am i going to overstock??
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Good types of shrimp? I would start out with ghost shrimp. It would be a pity to spend $9 on a few Amano shrimp just to learn that your other fish like the taste of them. At 25 cents a pop, you won't feel as bad if ghost shrimp get eaten.
But if they do eat the ghosts, I might look into a Singapore/Wood shrimp. They are more money, but they are larger. They are filter feeders and neat to watch, if not as active as the other kinds of shrimp.
But if they do eat the ghosts, I might look into a Singapore/Wood shrimp. They are more money, but they are larger. They are filter feeders and neat to watch, if not as active as the other kinds of shrimp.
they stay pretty small. 1", maybe a little more. ghost shrimp are pretty cool....they just end up being feeder shrimp in my gourami/loach tank, though.
It has been my own experience (have had 6 male bettas in community tanks) that bettas make excellant community fish as long as some common sense goes into choosing tank mates. Neons would be fine with a male betta, as they don't have long finnage, are small, and don't occupy the same zone as bettas normally do; therefore, the betta would not mistake them for another betta. I would dare go to the length to say that your LFS is misinformed and believe the common assumption that male bettas are highly aggressive, which is simply untrue. If anything, bettas are more often the victims than the aggressor.
I agree. My male betta would often flare or chase my white cloud minnows but only for short periods of time then give up and go about his bussiness. Occasionally I would see the school of white clouds chasing him around as well.
Actually i should have thought to say this. I have a guppy that floated into the bag with my pictus catfish at the lfs anyways it was a tiny baby when it came and i has lasted in my 125G living near the filter with my betta since it was .5cm long. Male bettas really are a nice community fish.
Well, I watched my betta constanly harrass a rainbow shark for about a week, and it was completely ignored.
Then one day, the shark grabbed the betta and slammed it against a rock.
Bettas might start stuff, but they won't finish it.
Then one day, the shark grabbed the betta and slammed it against a rock.
Bettas might start stuff, but they won't finish it.
