My First Betta-Advice Needed Please

[mini_matt]

Hi all, I will be getting my first betta this week or next planning to put him in my 50L tank that I have some platy fry in atm, but i'm not sure if he would eat my fry?
I also will be looking at a group of panda cories which I think are ok with bettas?

also I had dwarf gourami disease in that tank a while back and since they and bettas are from the same family i was wondering if there was any need for concern there?
thanks in advance

 

[Assaye]

As with any disease outbreak, you are safets if you strip the tank down and sterilise everything. You'll need to keep the filter running, though, so there might still be a small chance of contamination there.

Yes, the better might well eat or kill the platy fry. It isn't advisable to put them together.

Panda corys should be fine with the betta, but as always with bettas, be careful.

Good luck!

 

[Kekmet]

Personally I have had a lot of success keeping cories and bettas together; but I've only kept my gentler bettas with cories. I have never tried putting cories in with my aggressive red.

It all depends on the personality of the betta, really. I had one very docile one that thought he was a cory and cruised around with them, trying to snuffle in the sand like they did, and another one that never looked at them once. Mostly they keep to seperate levels of the tank.

If possible I would recommend putting the cories in first so the betta sees them as part of the landscape and doesn't try to defend his 'turf.'

 

[Haych]

Personally I have had a lot of success keeping cories and bettas together; but I've only kept my gentler bettas with cories. I have never tried putting cories in with my aggressive red.

It all depends on the personality of the betta, really. I had one very docile one that thought he was a cory and cruised around with them, trying to snuffle in the sand like they did, and another one that never looked at them once. Mostly they keep to seperate levels of the tank.

If possible I would recommend putting the cories in first so the betta sees them as part of the landscape and doesn't try to defend his 'turf.'

100% agree.

But I have cories in with each betta male, but I do find SOMETIMES a couple of the boys do give chase. It happens occassionally but not all the time.

If the baby platys are mouth sized, they will get eaten I'm afraid, otherwise it could work. I have had many betta males in a community tank

 

[theshadowinc]

Hi all, I will be getting my first betta this week or next planning to put him in my 50L tank that I have some platy fry in atm, but i'm not sure if he would eat my fry?
I also will be looking at a group of panda cories which I think are ok with bettas?

also I had dwarf gourami disease in that tank a while back and since they and bettas are from the same family i was wondering if there was any need for concern there?
thanks in advance

if its the one where they sway back and forth in the tank so gourmis only disease no its impossible for any other fish to get this, this is a gourmis specifically to dwarf gourmis disease. Cories are community and really can go with anything its just the other fish you need to watch