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I know I have asked a similar question before, but anyways I have a tank that has 55 gallon filtration. It currently has 9 female bettas in it. I wanted to have a total of 13 females in there, could I still add some more fish with the 13 bettas? If so what and how many?
Thanks in Advance!
Also, would it be better to do an only betta tank with 16 female bettas or to have some other fish with them?
Answers:
If you have 13 females in your tank then you could easily add a group of 5 or 6 cories for the bottom of the tank and 3 ottos to complete your "clean-up" crew. Cories and ottos are the cutest dang things, and your bettas will be fine with them.
I would go to Petco's fish shop online and see what they say regarding Beta and living compatability with other fish. I believe they are only good with other Beta's. However, I am certainly no fish expert, so i don't wish to mislead you.
You have a great question. A Star for you. :-)
Enjoy your weekend. Blessings, Patti
You should be able to add a few more fish, but only fish that will not be aggressive to the bettas (because of their longer fins, they could be picked on easily) Corydoras catfish are excellent, some (at least 5) danios, danios are aggressive if kept in groups of less than five because they get nervous, but if kept in groups of 5 or more, they provide a nice, fast moving background because they all look the same for your slowmoving beautiful girls
I do not think you should get any more fish in that tank, bettas, female or male, will kill other fish if that fish "trespasses" on their "territory". If you do get more fish, please get another tank.
You could get something for the bottom of the tank,cory's http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/spe...
or upside down catfishhttp://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/spe... are good in smaller tanks .
female bettas are "usually" fine with other fish as long as the other fish do not have flashy colorful fins (guppies for example) you can go with some tetras (big groups as some are fin nippers) or platys ect. golden rule to follow 1 in of fish per gal of water. fem. bettas get to be about 2.5 in i think. so take that into consideration. plus watch your females in that large of a group. sometimes females have a tempermet of their own, and i usually dont even put more then 1 female per 15 gal of water, but as i stated before in another comment, fish really do make up their own rules lol. just watch for aggression problems.
Ditto to Donna above, a group of 13 female bettas and a small school of cory cats would be perfect.
MM
