Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!lll-winken!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Bettas and other fish?
Summary: yes it's possible, no, you don't want to do it
Keywords: Bettas Siamese fighting fish
Message-ID: <2387@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 88 04:00:32 GMT
References: <986@sdcc7.ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <986@sdcc7.ucsd.EDU> ss60w@sdcc7.ucsd.EDU (ss60w) writes:
>
>Pardon me if this has been discussed before, but is it
>possible to have Bettas together in a tank with other
>freshwater tropical fish?  I know they can't coexist with
>each other, but do they go after guppies, mollies, etc.?

Bettas are so slow and placid (except to each other) that they
almost always get their fins chewed off.

Especially by livebearers, barbs, tetras, cichlids, gobies....

Come to think of it, I cant think of too many fish that can resist
the sight of a tasty morsal like a betta tail.


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