How should i go about adding a beta to a tropical community tank?
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I read the title and not your provided information.........The best way of raising a betta in a tropical tank, but away from the other fish, is by buying a "HANG-ON" plastic container........It pretty much is the same type of square container that the local pet stores put fish into after netting them from their tanks..........JUst drill 5 holes on each side of the container, this will allow water flow through the container...........Then, hang the container along the inside egde of the tank.........The water flow in...........Then add the betta..........
Hit or Miss I acclimate the in a Container then dump them in lol, Alot depends on the betta my current male in my 75 community tank does well doesn't mind anything even the fancy guppy males. He does eat the guppy fry but not great loss since I am not trying to breed them they just do that constantly. My Prior female i had to remove as she Pretty much wouldn't tolerate anything else that came within 6 inches of her. She is isolated now ina 5 gallon tank with some wild Type RCS that annoy her to no end. I mean she flares at her food, she flares at the shrimp, she flares at me, and she attacked my hand the other day when I was cleaning her tiny domain.
All in all take a few hours to watch when you first put the betta in, in a big enough tank the Betta will stake out a small little domain with low water flow and pretty much hang there although I find mine all over the tank at various times a day, he goes back to the same spot to sleep after the lights go out.
All in all take a few hours to watch when you first put the betta in, in a big enough tank the Betta will stake out a small little domain with low water flow and pretty much hang there although I find mine all over the tank at various times a day, he goes back to the same spot to sleep after the lights go out.
The onyt thing I would worry about would be fin nipping from the Tetras and maybe the Danios, other than that, Beta can hold their own IMO.
a betta will do fine in your tank, just watch for fin nipping from current fish. A hiding place or Plants will serve as a good Safe zone for it
also, you probably shouldn't be keeping mollies with the other fish, they really do much better in very hard, alkaline (even brackish to fully marine) conditions. Raising the hardness would only be bad for the neon tetras, the betta, the glowfish and the danios.