Wondering If My Planned Additions Would Work
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sonds like a bit much to me with 11 neons, 7 emperor,and then the larger fish. I would skip the emperor tetras, just do the neons and your larger fish.
Double checked and the Platies are all females judging by their Anal Fins.
plakat will not eat neons. Mouth too small. Might get a bit of aggression from it, but usually only directed at fish that somewhat resemble a betta
Gotta disagree with you bud, I’ve researched bettas with neons in the past and came up with several stories of the Betta eating the neon tetras somehow.
Sounds like anecdotal stories with no proof to back it up, to me. I have heard many times of people telling me their guppies ate another fish, tetras ate each other, etc. What really has happened is the fish died of another cause, then the remains were picked at.
Of course, most fish will eat anything that fits in it's mouth. So, maybe if the neons were babies and the plakat was a large adult, the neons would be eaten. But adult neons would simply be too large. Bettas are omnivores, in the wild they mostly eat insects, larvae, etc. Their mouths are not adapted to expand (like many cichlids for example) enough to eat a fish of that size.
I guess it's possible (unlikely though IMO) the betta would be aggressive and kill the neon, then pick it apart after it's dead. But the OP asked if the betta would straight up eat the neons.
Show me a video of a betta eating a neon whole, and I will stand corrected