Betta With Puffers

[RRaquariums]

It's cool guys I figured most people would be against the idea so I just asked thanks for the opinions and ideas

 

[thumpersrx]

Personally I think that what you are planning to do is desperately cruel. Why risk  the life of a beautiful creature for the sake of an experiment? Is it just to boast that you have achieved something despite everybody telling you that it won't work? 
I mean, let's face it..... you are hardly going to come on here and admit to us that your Betta was ripped to shreds.
I don't care if you or anyone else doesn't like this, but people like you make me so angry. A life is a life, and we as fish keepers have a duty of care.

 

[Chad]

Puffers are sort of like sharks in the sense that they use their mouth in a tactile way. They use it to touch and feel their way though life. So it's not so much that it would "attack" the betta but as a simple result of the puffer's natural habit of biting its way through its day the betta is likely to get damaged. 
 
As the puffer matures (especially a male) it becomes more territorial and will defend its territory vigorously. 
 
So while I don't care for the word attack the end result of defending and oral-tactility is the same...torn up fins and round holes in the slow moving tank mates. 
 
There are many fish that can be kept with a dwarf puffer. I recommend one of them and not one that is known to be a poor choice with anything but a juvenile dwarf. 

 

[sawickib]

http/m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYidRPsqoY4
This person did it with an veil tail betta, not the best tank set up in the first place but still the betta has no marks.

 

[508]

Why would you make a post asking for peoples opinions and do what you planned on doing anyway?

 

[sawickib]

Personally I think that what you are planning to do is desperately cruel. Why risk  the life of a beautiful creature for the sake of an experiment? Is it just to boast that you have achieved something despite everybody telling you that it won't work? 
I mean, let's face it..... you are hardly going to come on here and admit to us that your Betta was ripped to shreds.
I don't care if you or anyone else doesn't like this, but people like you make me so angry. A life is a life, and we as fish keepers have a duty of care.

Well, I don't really agree with this, I mean he's just trying to achieve a cool and unique aquarium, he obviously cares if he would go on here to ask for opinions, RR definitely isn't a heartless fish torturer. Obviously he wouldn't try and get the betta ripped to shreds, but at the end of the day at least for me my fish are for entertainment, I mean I love them but I switch my fish out all the time, mostly because I can't make up my mind, but still I'm not a vegetarian and I eat animals, however I don't support the torture of animals, which RR is not trying to accomplish. I don't know of any of this makes sense or not lol but that's my opinion.

 

[Chad]

http/m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYidRPsqoY4
This person did it with an veil tail betta, not the best tank set up in the first place but still the betta has no marks.

I had to laugh at this part of the description on that, "The beta jumped out one day, puffers never bothered him." 
I would be dollars to donuts those two GSP's are why that betta jumped out. Just because we don't see the bothering...doesn't mean it's not happening.

 

[sawickib]

O sorry didn't read description

 

[Wills]

Also again... brackish puffers with fresh water bettas... not a good example to follow. Yes its "fine" but its not good, great or excellent all of which are easy to achieve in tanks without taking such risks.
 
Wills

 

[sawickib]

Isnt RR putting it with dwarf puffers? Their full freshwater, the video showed brackish puffers though i know.

 

[Chad]

Yes, that's right about dwarf puffers but he was pointing out the fish in the video were brackish just to drive home the point that the video is a bad example.

 

[vespabloke27]

kep calm guys.. haha
 
i suppose it just depends on the personalities
 
when i intruduced my male betta in my community tank. whilst still in the bag. my gourami was more fierce than he was.
but once settled in and finally when the gourami realised the betta wasnt a threat.(i guess).. they seemed to get along fine