75g tank with two fish

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You could do a community tank with some tetras (cardinals, rummy nose, etc), cories, loaches (I like yoyo loaches, so I'll recommend them), some peaceful cyprinids ... I have SAEs, rose line sharks, and pencil fish ... and maybe some dwarf cichlids.

And if the betta doesn't survive all of those guys, at least you'll have a lot of nice little fish to look at and keep you happy :D
 
i have had a fair amount of experience keeping and breeding Bettas and I have found that they do better in a smallish tank. Through trial and error I have found the perfect tank size to be 45 litres (not sure what that is in gallons), then you add heaps of plants and 4 or 5 females and a small HOB so as not to create too much current (they hate currents). Perfect.

In a larger tank they just do not seem as comfortable, perhaps it's because they've evolved to live in puddles. So while we think we are doing right by them giving them heaps of space, it's not always the best thing for them.
 
Valyrian;533370; said:
A betta in a 75 gal?

Get a nice 10 gal or even 2.5 gal for the betta and put what you want in the 75.
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I agree !! The betta can be kept in a 10 gallon and should still look like he's in heaven, that would open up your options big time! Bettas usally get gobbled up and harassed by most even slightly larger fish because they are slow swimmers and the fins are long flowing targets,
 
I went on a vacation not that long ago to the upper peninsula and i found this store that had these little boxes that looked like a television. The size was about 4" by 4". I felt so bad for the little guy. Then i saw another one that was bigger. Probably about a five gal. Anyways, she had a real nice setup for the bigger tank. Some neon tetras and stuff like that. But the tank was so cute.
 
kissme_419;532061; said:
I was thinking about a little baby rainbow cichlid but i had one of those before and he was really aggresive. Was it just that fish or are all of them like that?
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Cichlids are ALL aggressive.
If you put in a Dempsey without taking out the Betta.
The Betta will become food.
:)
 
wow why did they have the tank and only put a betta in that 75?? Yeah go for 2 1/2-10 gal for a betta. they need more shallow water, being labyrinth breathers. a 75 seems just so humongous. poor little fish was probably scared to death with all that open space, haha. yeah i'd go for a dempsey too! great fish, stunning, and neat personalities.
 
I had my male betta in with my silver dollars, tiger barbs, gourami's, angel fish and mollies and he seemed to do fine. I gave him to my mother in law because he got sick, I nursed him back to health but didn't want to risk reintroducing the illness back into the whole tank, so I let her have him. And she killed him. RIP betta. I wont give her another one of my fish ever again.
 
smmfish;555283; said:
I had my male betta in with my silver dollars, tiger barbs, gourami's, angel fish and mollies and he seemed to do fine. I gave him to my mother in law because he got sick, I nursed him back to health but didn't want to risk reintroducing the illness back into the whole tank, so I let her have him. And she killed him. RIP betta. I wont give her another one of my fish ever again.
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thats so sad :( i'm sorry that happened. poor little guy/girl.
 
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