From what I know in my brief research of scarlet badi’s, they seem to be slithery aggressive. I am not sure if They have teeth. They are a cichlid, so probably. They get to 2”. That’s all I know
From my experience I'd favor cichlids over ctenopoma/betta/goruami at parity but again I've heard of microctenopoma dominating larger cichlids while breeding. (Most care sheets say that even dwarf cichlids will dominate microctens). Never kept either. Are badis really cichlids? I thought they were closer to anabantoids.From what I know in my brief research of scarlet badi’s, they seem to be slithery aggressive. I am not sure if They have teeth. They are a cichlid, so probably. They get to 2”. That’s all I know
Are micros that mean, I only experienced regular ctenos and they were very docile especially to each other. Getting pushed around by kribs and even congo tetras when they weren't that large. I know that badis can be mean to each other. But honestly, I'm not impressed by either as fish. Might make good tankmatesBadis are their own thing, not cichlids or anabantoids.
My money would be on the microctenopoma. Overall meaner and more potential in a fight. No experience in either though.