Can These Go In A Comunity Tank?

[Batzman]

I currently have 3 clown loachs, 1 yoyo loach, 1 baby birstlenose, 1 burneo sucker, honey dwarf gourami, 2 threadfin rainbows (male and female), a balloon sail fin molly and a flame dwarf gourami, what other fish could I possibly add? ( I am after some good comunity fish that won't bite or get aggressive towards each other)... Would I be able to have a Siamese fighting fish in there? or are they aggressive?

 

[LauraFrog]

No, definitely not a betta... gouramis are closely related to bettas, so he would probably attack them, and he might be aggressive with fish as small as threadfin rainbows. Females are a possibility, but they need space and a lot of hiding places.
How big is the tank, and is it fully cycled yet?

 

[Batzman]

No, definitely not a betta... gouramis are closely related to bettas, so he would probably attack them, and he might be aggressive with fish as small as threadfin rainbows. Females are a possibility, but they need space and a lot of hiding places.
How big is the tank, and is it fully cycled yet?

Yea I was thinking a female because I have herd they are less aggressive and my tank is 125L with a large bit of drift wood and heaps of plants for hiding places, are any of my fish likly to attack the female betta or a female betta likely to attack them? and it is cycled

cheers

 

[LauraFrog]

I don't think the female would cause problems... usually the problem with males in communities is either fin damage (caused by nipping fish like tetras, barbs and danios) or the fact that they will go for almost anything with bright colours. Females usually don't have long fins to get chewed off and they also don't attack other fish. You could have one female in there definitely... a group is possible, but it would bust up the calm community pretty fast, a group of females is feisty and nippy.

If you do go with a female betta, make sure it is really a female and not a plakat male, as other new zealand members have had a lot of problems getting true females. Plakat males have shorter fins than normal male bettas, but the anal fin (big one on the belly) will be triangular and strongly pointed, and the ventrals (the two fins that hang down in front of the anal fin) longer than the anal fin and often tipped with white. Plakat males are bred for fighting and they are utterly obnoxious and will shred everything in your tank - they make great pets, like other bettas, but they really need to be kept alone. The plakat males that you will be sold as females are rejects from the fighting fish breeders who sell them as females rather than have the greater loss of culling them - they are not of the ornamental plakat strains that are no more aggressive than other aquarium bred bettas.

 

[squiremaster]

I know for sure that male Bettas don't go together with gouramis but I don't know about female Bettas. true, they are less aggressive.

 

[love4aquatic]

i have a male in with 2 gouramis no problem, depends on the fishes temperment