20g Betta friend ideas.

[MMantelli]

Here pretty soon my gold lab will be to big for my planted 20g and I have noticed my wife eyeballing the bettas in the pet stores so I'm going to get her one. Well I'm wandering what can be happy with a Betta I would lime to do a single male and a few females if possible if not what would look good with a male in this tank. It will have many more plants in it by the time its ready for the betta. And I think she has been liking a dark purple ish one specifically. We would like a colorful schooling fish single or multiple species but that wouldn't draw too much attention from the betta.

 

[thomasina]

I have a 20 g tank and a 10. I bought a betta and put him in the ten. There were 4 tetra, two cory and an oto. He was in there for four weeks and then he turned. He killed all the fish in just two days. I tried to rescue them, but it was too late. IMO putting anything in with betta is a maybe. Males and females will fight, and all females sometimes don't get along. There is away to get the females to be in a sorority, (all females) but it has something of all being brought out together. Maybe getting tank of her own and she can have a betta in it hassle free! Your tank is beautiful. Neon tetra or cardinal tetra (same coloring) would look great in there! They have the blue and red color! Again, IMO I wouldn't trust a betta at all, not at the expense of losing other fish.

 

[MMantelli]

Oh. I'm sorry for your loss I have heard of people on here having success with bettas in a community tank though.

 

[Scottyhorse]

It depends on the betta, but you want to add him last. Neon tetras, cory cats, cardinal tetras, harlequin rasboras, and otos are all good tank mates.

 

[fishfan88]

I tried putting my betta in my 10g community tank and he was trying to get at the other fish before I even let him out of the bag. I know other people have had success, and I am not saying its a bad idea, but I don't think I would try that again. I would just get some snails or shrimp or something.