allaboutfish
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I can't wait to get a 55 gallon tank
that sucks,i hate when stores do thatMy LFS did the same thing to me, I have a 20 and they sold me an albino rainbow shark.
I wouldn't put skirts with a Betta homedog was lucky. Also I don't know how a rainbowshark would be with the Betta. You could add some cardinal tetras or something of that size
why shouldnt i have a betta? none of the fish i have/want are nippyNo offense, but they've been kept together for what, 2 months? It's way too early IMO to call this a success given the lifespan of those fish. I certainly wouldn't recommend black skirts as tank mates for a betta, and TBH I wouldn't recommend a betta for the OP's setup at all.
if you had read the entire thread,you would know that i decided against black skirt tetras. i doubt my shark woud nip anything,hes really laid back,in my 20 all he does when fish goe in his territory is nudge them.if you think danios are a bad idea,any ideas for a second school?The black skirts are, and the potential is there from the rainbow shark as well. Zebra danios are absolutely a candidate for nipping a betta as well.
if you had read the entire thread,you would know that i decided against black skirt tetras. i doubt my shark woud nip anything,hes really laid back,in my 20 all he does when fish goe in his territory is nudge them.if you think danios are a bad idea,any ideas for a second school?
my shark is like 3.5-4",i know hes not adult yet,but how much more aggressive can he get?how about i try a male,and if he doesnt wrk out get a 5 gal for him?I did read the entire thread, so no need to jump to conclusions. Actually, I just read the whole thing for the second time and didn't see you mention ANYWHERE in the thread that you had reconsidered the black skirts.
Smaller tetras are usually fine with a betta. Fish become more territorial with maturity and I'm guessing your shark is still small. You can get away with a lot more with juvenile fish but they mature eventually.
if you had read the entire thread,you would know that i decided against black skirt tetras. i doubt my shark woud nip anything,hes really laid back,in my 20 all he does when fish goe in his territory is nudge them.if you think danios are a bad idea,any ideas for a second school?
ive had him more than weeks...granted 6 months isnt a long time,but hows trying it with a male,and if it doesnt work getting him a 5?Do you realize how hard threads have gotten to read with all the off topic banter and one "sentence" posts based on many WEEKS of experience?
okay,okay,you win,i dont know his personality yetI said many weeks. I view 6 as not many, 24 weeks as "many" weeks. I could edit it to state a few months experience, but I was attempting to be generous.
Experience doesn't really matter.research does. Rhe more research you do the better off you are
What exactly do you think the material you research comes from? Experience is the ONLY thing that matters. Whether it's your experience doesn't matter. That's not the question here.Experience doesn't really matter.research does. Rhe more research you do the better off you are
HN1 said:Research is invaluable indeed, but experience does matter as well. How could it not? Also the quality of your research is a huge factor. A paragraph or two on a forum or website is not enough to be dubbed "research" IMO.
Maybe a fancy guppy?!
a lot of pages i read said that it would probably work with a shark,unless the betta started picking on the shark,if that happens its bye bye betta.
forgot about the danios,the only people who said they nipped bettas always said someting along the lines of"i just put 2-3 zebra danios in my 2 gallon betta tank,and they nipped his fins". but i did read that the temp differences are pretty high(although theyve been bred in all sorts of temps for a llooooong time),and there activeness might stress out the betta,dont think the activenesswould be a problem,but ill see what you guys think.