Rams + Bettas = Destruction?

SpankyPlants

SpankyPlants

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Hi all! :)

I've been tossing around the idea of turning my 46-gal community tank into an amazon river biotope. I favor a bunch of small fish over one or two big ones, so I was thinking about getting rams, namely German Blue Rams and Bolivian Rams. I've gotten very attached to my female betta, so I don't really want to take her to the LFS and trade her in. From what I've heard, German Blue and Bolivian Rams are pretty peaceful, and I was just wondering if having them in the same tank as my female betta would be fine.

Thanks! :D
 
Should be fine, Rams are peaceful enough and I have never really seen an aggressive female Betta. Even a male would probably be fine. I mean every fish is different so you could have problems but I really doubt it.
 
rams with betta

I have a male betta who is docile to al my other fish even my pygmy rasborsas, but for some reason has a thing for dwarf cichlids. he would regularly display to me krib who is about 40% bigger. He killed my nannacara in two days. I would watch carefully if you mixed the two. Rams are sensitive fish and though your betta is a female the possibility exists they won't get along, though when I had a female it worked. Your best chance of sucess with rams is a species tank or one where the rams (esp. german blue) are the top dogs.
 
labont865 said:
....I have never really seen an aggressive female Betta.
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My sister had 4 in a 29G tank and 1 beat up on rest of them until there was only 1 left.
 
I have germans in with my male betta. The male betta chases the german rams, but there are several, so the harassment is distributed. That being said, I think a female betta would do fine with rams in a smallish aquarium.
 
mayreee said:
That's probably because bettas can't go with other bettas.
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Only males are generally aggressive to each other, females should be fine, but then again it depends on the individuals. i had 2 females in a 55g. and I'm pretty sure one killed the other, because i did see some chasing, can't really tell though.
 
I don't think Harmony (the betta) will be of any threat to a ram. She's sassy, but she's very nice to her tankmates. I was worried more about the rams starting something, because I've heard they can get territorial. It's a fairly big tank and I won't have a huge fish load, so there shouldn't be any disputes, but she's one of my favorite fish and I don't want to put her into any danger.
 
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