Info I Found On Betta An Platies

[karen4kevin]

Male bettas need to be kept away from other bettas, not necessarily away from other fish. Suitable tank mates for bettas include platies, swordtails, cory cats, neon tetras, cardinal tetras, white cloud mountain minnows, zebra danios, cherry barbs, rasboras, angelfish. You just have to add them slowly until you reach the desired population for your tank. Put in maybe two fish every week. This helps the bacteria balance develop to accommodate the waste of the new fish. Adding too many fish too quickly could cause an elevation in toxins that could kill them all. (Yikes!) The maximum safe population for any tank is one inch of adult fish per gallon of water. Find out the adult size of each new fish so you know how many more you can add. Most fish are juveniles when you buy them and still have some growing to do, so don't go by their current size as you buy them. This population guideline is of course providing you have adequate filtration and make water changes of 25% every week as maintenance.