What is this fish

[machollie]

Is it a pi Betta?

 

[Wy Renegade]

Fixed your title and moved the thread to a more appropriate forum, where hopefully you will get more help. Good luck with your I.D.

 

[herp_mommy]

Looks like Trichopsis pumila. Or a sparkling gourami.

 

[machollie]

Looks like Trichopsis pumila. Or a sparkling gourami.

That's it thank you. Now I have two of them with mollies and neons and a frog and 2 albino cat fish. One mollies has been stopped of tail and a fin and now dead is it these doing it as these 2 and neons are new but neons seen fine as others not so sure? Help please its so sad

 

[machollie]

Perfect that is what they are.... Now are they the ones nibbling on Molly tail and fins? I have other fish but never has any issues till added these. I have African dwarf frogs, mollies, Betta fighter, albino cat fish and neons plus the breed you named. I need to figure it out as lost my best Molly and its upsetting as it just happened all of a sudden in a day!

 

[jwh0818]

Do you have a male or female betta?

My guess is the betta

 

[machollie]

How can you tell if male or not?

 

[jwh0818]

How can you tell if male or not?

Can you post a pic?

Males have long flowing fins for the most part. A pic can definitely help. Im not a betta expert

 

[machollie]

Hope this helps. I was told he was good as long as only Betta but its friendly. I thought I was being good as I checked obviously lied to for the sale.

 

[jwh0818]

Hope this helps. I was told he was good as long as only Betta but its friendly. I thought I was being good as I checked obviously lied to for the sale.

That is a male betta. I wouldn't put a male betta in a community of fish

 

[machollie]

Ok need to look how to keep him then as I am attached to him well offer fish really! Thanks

 

[machollie]

I just seen it swipe at my other little female molly all she did was swim past him. Can I pop him in a box I have when my mollies have fry? Just a box that you keep fry in till big enough to sell or swim freely so they don't get eaten just till I figure out how to keep him? And maybe buy his own little tank.

 

[jwh0818]

I just seen it swipe at my other little female molly all she did was swim past him. Can I pop him in a box I have when my mollies have fry? Just a box that you keep fry in till big enough to sell or swim freely so they don't get eaten just till I figure out how to keep him? And maybe buy his own little tank.

Id put the betta in the box thing. Then get the betta a small tank

 

[machollie]

Thank you

 

[Krissycakes]

I too have a male betta, and put him in my 20g tank with a group of guppies and neon tetras. My betta seems to get along with them, but I think it is because he is so old. He doesn't care for them, or my catfish and shrimps. He likes to stare at them =)

But I also keep a 1g bowl for my female betta, she is super aggressive.

I think your betta would be happier in a bowl of his own. =) Good idea!