Betta with Live-bearers

[fishlover25]

Can a betta be kept with live-bearers. i know it cant with guppies. colors to bright

 

[Coyote]

One LFS here has a betta for every platy and swordtail tank. There's no betta in their molly tanks though.

 

[sinasster]

I kept my betta with guppies, and didnt have any problems.

Perhaps i just got lucky

 

[beermanic]

I did also for about 1 1/2 weeks and then one day I found both of them torn up and battered. They both died before the next day.

RIP - at least the male guppy had a chance to pass his genes on to 6 you guppies.

 

[tramca]

All my lps's house bettas with guppies......apparently they get on ok.
I hope so as I'm buying a betta tomorrow( I hope!)

 

[PreciousGems]

Bettas are great additions to most live-bearing tanks. It helps keep the population down in them, and look pretty against the grain of the same fish!

Alexa

 

[catfishmike]

some times yes some times no.it just depends on the betta.like most creatures bettas have diffrent personalitys.some bettas will never touch another fish.some go into kill mode regardless of the offending fish and it's size.anything with a long finned tail will probably become a target.also sometimes they will live in perfect harmony then ond day it's like a whole new fish terrorizing anything in sight.those are just my experiences though.

 

[PreciousGems]

Yes, its true, it does depend on the betta. But sometimes its the bettas getting their fins nipped! So you have to really research what fish you are going to put them with and get people to share their expiriences.

 

[Guardian]

Betta's go great with livebearers...I just hope you don't want any of the baby's from the livebearers as Betta's are excellent hunters...

 

[Layla]

My betta nipped the platies when I put them in with him.

 

[bobrob]

Yea I was planning on getting one today because I saw it at the fish shop and the colours were too nice so I gotta get it. He's gonna go in with 2 platies, 4 wcmm, 3 blind cave tetras and an algae cat of some sort.

 

[JinXgirl]

My first betta terrorised everything in the tank from my poor little cats hiding in the bottom to my swordtails and black mollies.Lucily my store was hapy to take him back, i now have tried another one and he's the softest quietest laziest fish in the tank. he even gets bullied of my guppies some days. the only thing he seems to want to fight with is his reflection in the glass!
My LFS agreed that they are all very individual, roughtly 2 out of 10 will bully, 1 will hide and the rest are a mixture... pretty good odds! *celebrate anyway he's in there with mollies, harlequins loaches cats and guppies and he's happy... I'm happy too as no more babies! ( it was getting hard finding homes for them all!)