Betta Compatibility

[amandalynn]

I just bought myself a late Christmas present in the form of a ten-gallon tank, filter and hood light!

I'm planning on cycling the tank with a few zebra danios, and I'm hoping they survive the cycle because I'd like to keep them.

I've read that they'd be okay with a betta? After I'm through cycling the tank, I'd like to add a male betta and a couple cory cats. Will they all be okay together in one 10G tank?

 

[modaz]

I just bought myself a late Christmas present in the form of a ten-gallon tank, filter and hood light!

I'm planning on cycling the tank with a few zebra danios, and I'm hoping they survive the cycle because I'd like to keep them.

I've read that they'd be okay with a betta? After I'm through cycling the tank, I'd like to add a male betta and a couple cory cats. Will they all be okay together in one 10G tank?

cylce without fish, its easier, find someone with some filter media that you can have, you dont need a lot, add it to your filter and then with all being well you should be able to add the danios after about 4 days time, doing without the media will result in you possibly loosing the danios as you know, and dont put a betta with danios not a good combination

 

[amandalynn]

I wanted to do fishless cycling, but I can't seem to find any pure ammonia, so led me to think to try cycling with fish...

 

[amandalynn]

Actually, I'm not thinking of doing a betta any longer... So I'll stick to danios and cory cats most likely.

 

[Amunet]

Actually.. with filter media.. if you get some mature, you want to add fish right away so they can start providing the bacteria w/ the food it needs. Or if you can, add some kind of ammonia source for the bacteria to feed on. If you just leave the media in the tank with nothing, the bacteria will die.
I've put mature media in 3 of my tanks and putting fish in right after and never had any problem.

Anywho... have you looked in a hardware store for ammonia? I found some at an Ace Hardware. Even a dollar store might have some pure ammonia in their cleaning section.

Cycling with fish will more than likely result in fish death or fish that won't live as long as they should.
We tryed cycling w/ fish at first, and it was the worst mistake we ever made. Other than taking forever b/c I had to do daily water changes just to try to keep the fish somewhat healthy... Every single fish eventually died long before they should have.

 

[amandalynn]

No, I didn't look at a hardware store, but I will now! I really don't have any way of getting any mature filter media, but if I can find ammonia I would definitely prefer cycling the tank without fish! Thank you.