Betta and Guppy Community Fish Tank
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Since many of you ask, the long plants in the back are called Jungle Val. This is the my most popular video demonstrating keeping a male betta in a community tank with guppies. This tank has live plants but no Co2. Jungle Val: http://amzn.to/2hin21A Plant Fertilizer: http://amzn.to/246Ca6K T5 Aquarium Bulb: http://amzn.to/2hIZ0y9 This is a community betta fish tank with guppies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ★★Follow me on my Social Media ★★ Become a part of the #CreativeCritters Click HERE to SUBSCRIBE (It's FREE): https://goo.gl/SkhMM6 ★CREATIVE PET KEEPING INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/creativepetkeeping FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/CreativePetKeeping/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/KasiaPetKeeping PERISCOPE: @CreativePetKeeping SNAPCHAT: CreativePet Facebook FAN GROUP: https://goo.gl/plD97d ★CREATIVE PET VLOGS YOUTUBE: https://goo.gl/ec91IJ INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/creativepinkunicorn Feel free to TAG me in fanart YOU make! I love to see your work! #CreativePetFanArt
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(can't english right now)
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Dirt is great. Your tanks are great. Plants are great. :)
how old was your boy when you got him? How did you introduce him to the tank?
I keep my bettas in 5 gallon tanks, alone. (around 80°F)
I keep goldfish for many years and they seldom get sick, but I had that one goldfish that always got sick again and again (the others were fine). In the end I raised my goldfish tank's temperature to 73.5°F and they are all doing great for over a year now.
What plants do you have in your tank? And how long do you leave your light on?
Thank you
Betta is the enemy number 1 of guppies. They can't live together.
My light is simple..the bilb is whats important.. I use ta CORALIFE 6,700K Daylight T5 bulb. -- http://amzn.to/1QNQolM
My local Chinese has a tropical tank with 16in catfish and goldfish over 10in I've seen them put small ones in like 5in then a year later they're as big as the rest. it's mental.
But they do look scruffy big nasty scales dislodged ect but still a sight to see. I wouldn't do it and I have told them it's not a good idea but they don't listen.
They had a beautiful shark catfish about 10in I loved watching that as they cooked but one day it was gone. the monster plec is still ther tho.
Best of luck :D
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Oh, I don't speak Spanish. Just Polish and English >_<
The front is 3 foot
And the sides are easily 2 foot....
I have a small tank for the babies also, what I do is I sell the babies to a local petshop.
I look after them until they are old enough, then I add them to my community tank and then sell them.
My fish tank looks empty.
I have seen bettas with angels before. Just make sure get angel relatively same size of the butta..I mean betta. The angel with not go after betta if its same size.
I have some java fern and anubias. I have a 25 gal tank and filter. I am planning on getting some guppies. What is the appropriate ratio of gal/fish with guppies? I am looking for low maintenance set up. Is 5 guppies and a betta okay for a 25 gal tank? How often would I need to clean it with this set up? Thank you.
i have a 5g planted the same just the foreground is hair grass for about 2years. from time to time disappears. they other jump or just get bitten by the betta. So expect to have some losses soon...
My friend had 2 male bettas in a 30 gallon with guppies and for the most part, everyone got along (the veil-tail males were too slow to chase and kill guppies I suspect, and too lazy to fight each other much).
I'd like to do a single male with guppies in a 26 gallon but I have a kribensis pair and their mostly grown up fry in there at the moment (the parents don't try to kill their grown up offspring like I thought they would so they've stayed - the grown fry are eating the new batches of fry / eggs which is good or I'd be overrun!).
Yes it will shred fins if it's a veil tail, but a moderate to low current will not shred plakat / wildtype fins (no one is going to make a river manifold for a betta tank I hope!!)
No worries, glad to help!
All the best of luck & have fun with your new tank :)
Its unfortunate the most lfs do not tell you about the requirement to cycle your tank before you put fish in - or they give incorrect information like "let the tank sit empty for a few days first". Cycling takes 4 - 6 weeks and needs an ammonia source - it won't happen in an empty tank without fish unless you add ammonia to the tank.
Now on to your question:
Tetras and mollies/guppies can work if you chose your tetra species very carefully.
Most tetras require acidic, soft water which is the opposite of what livebearers like mollies and guppies require. Livebearers NEED slightly alkaline, quite hard water to do well. If you keep mollies in soft water they will get the shimmies and die eventually, and they won't be happy or show their best colours before they go. Guppies are slightly more adaptable to soft water but still won't grow as well, be as healthy or live as long as if you kept them in harder water with a higher pH.
Mollies kept in soft water are VERY prone to fungal infections and bacterial diseases. Many people keep them in slightly brackish water to avoid infections but ideally hard, alkaline freshwater is what (short-fin) mollies naturally live in and do best in.
There are some tetras that can live comfortably in harder / more alkaline waters. You can do a search online for these, some that I recall are Pristella / x-ray tetra and blind cave tetra / Mexican tetra.
If you think outside of the tetra family, glassfish (Parambassis ranga) can live in hard water and they school together and look pretty cool (they're almost completely see through). There are also a lot of rainbowfish species that prefer harder / alkaline water and these are very colourful.
Betta splendens (the common betta) are quite adaptable to most water conditions (except for the wild caught ones). You should be able to keep them in a moderately hard, slightly alkaline tank with mollies. If they've come from soft / acidic water in the shop, make sure you acclimate them to the harder water slowly over a period of weeks.
The only problems you may have is the mollies or guppies nipping the trailing fins of the betta, or the betta eating the smaller guppies and molly fry. Adult mollies should be too large for a betta to threaten. Don't get sailfin mollies are they are much more aggressive and nippy than shortfin mollies, and need a 30 gallon minimum (preferably more) as they grow to around 4-5 inches in length.
Add the betta last to the tank so that the other fish have time to grow into their adult sizes and get established. If you put the betta first it may become territorial and attack any future additions to the tank.
Good luck, and well done if you read all the way to the end!
So, yeah. This is totally safe and possible, but I recommend keeping you betta in a bowl next to the community tank for a week or two before puttin him in so you can observe how he reacts to seeing other fish. If he gets too excited, get him his own nice 5 gallon tank.
The aquarium looks nice.
I have a 10 year old goldfish that is still young in goldfish terms :)
THANKS!
Vallisneria spiralis is the straight medium sized species from Asia. Spiralis refers to the spiral growth of the flower stalk, not the leaves. "Corkscrew val" is the one you are thinking of - its a selectively bred variant I believe, not a wild species.
This get along with goldfish because theyre same family:)
Subfamily Cyprininae
Carassioides
Carassius (Crucian carps and goldfish)
Cyprinus (typical carps)
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprinidae
I would recommend getting them and quarantining them because the stress they are in might cause a disease (easily treatable,) because then you will be saving money and rescuing the fish.
Someday, I want a fish pond along the exterior wall of my house with aquarium silicon so I can see into the pond from in my house and I want to put these guys in there.
Hey thanks I actually just found that channel she's great thanks for the advice:D
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Really?
Are you nine years old?
I however wouldn't risk my bettas or my guppies by putting them together. Both are too valuable to me.
Advise would be appreciated.
Thanks
But everyone butchers Latin (including myself) and everyone know what's bay-tas are so ...
What and how much florescent light do you use for this tank..?
how long has this tank been running..?
Also can u comment on your filtration system.. pls..?
your fish out
we (me and my now 2 1/2 year old) named him Kinkey cuz he likes to kink himself up in an S.
also we got him when he was just lil
I know this as some of my poor guppies tails were ripped when I got them. so I had to start getting them from a breeder