Betta in 10 gallon planted RCS tank?

[SharkaThon]

So I am trying to decide between what I want to stock my 10 gallon tank with. I'm going to be breeding Red Cherry Shrimp, but I want something more than that. I was thinking of either doing a school of Rummynose Tetras, or a male betta. I was also going to have 6 pygmy Cories in there. It's going to have a carpet of Dwarf Babytears. I'm 99% the betta would eat some of the baby shrimp, but otherwise it should be ok in there, right?

 

[fishycat]

It will really depend on the betta's temperament. He could terrorize the cories & the shrimp, he could ignore everyone, he could just nom the baby shrimp... it's really a gamble.

IMO rummynose tetras need a larger tank. What about honey gourami (trichogaster chuna)?

they max out at 2" and will get along better with community fish.

 

[aakaakaak]

Very good call. Honeys seem to be the fish dejour when filling out small tanks nowadays. They fit, are entertaining, are beautiful, aren't territorial (normally) and aren't known to be succeptible to gourami disease. I think the worst that would happen is a few eaten baby shrimp. With a beta it would be pot luck. You wouldn't know how they get along until you plop one in the tank.

 

[platytudes]

I have a 10 gallon tank with glowlight tetras and a honey gourami, their colors complement each other beautifully and the tank size seems adequate.

I also have a 10 gallon with rummynose tetras and agree with fishycat, they are too active for a 20" tank. I feel kind of bad because I don't have anywhere else for them They don't do well with my other, more boisterous community fish.

Just a thought, wouldn't the cories disturb the baby tears? I would think their nosing around everywhere would uproot groundcover type plants.

You could try some very small fish such as least killifish, Microrasboras (Boraras sp.) or Norman's lampeyes. The smaller the better for a 10 gallon size, a glowlight tetra sized fish is the biggest I would recommend, but don't be fooled since activity level also needs to be considered...

That's why white clouds, for example, need bigger tanks.

 

[MacMyers]

Most fish (other than algae eaters) will at the very least, damage and/or kill the shrimplettes.

 

[GCL]

I found my RCS population in a 5 gal. tank was lessening after putting in three male Black Bar Endlers. After removing the Endlers, the shrimp population boomed again. This tank has a good size clump of java moss in it too. I did notice that after the fish were removed, the newborn shrimp like to scale the tank walls for food. So, I'm guessing the fish were taking full advantage of this.

 

[aussie pride]

hm i founf that after adding neons to my rcs tank, and the population seemed hardier, because the not so tough/hardy babies were being picked off..natural selection in a nutshell lol