What fish of yours get along but wouldn't usually?

[LoachLover]

My Opaline Gouramis pair gets along fine with my angel pair.

 

[Snailguy101]

2 male bettas I know it is wierd 0_o

 

[LoachLover]

That doesn't seem to wise...

 

[Snailguy101]

full grown very old they are fine

 

[LoachLover]

Yeah I know, but I'm just saying.

What made you even try and put them together in the first place is the real question?

 

[andywg]

WEll, I currently have two gourami (golden I think...) with a pair of spotted climbing perch. And they say you shouldn't mix anabantinoids.

Saying that I used to keep a host of guppies, this pair of gourami and my first betta in a tank together with no problems.

Probably my oddest combination (for me) was keeping Pictus with Guppy fry. Amazingly most of the fry survived...

 

[@ombomb]

My RTBS gets on pretty well with everything!

 

[Snailguy101]

Yeah I know, but I'm just saying.

What made you even try and put them together in the first place is the real question?

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Oh I bought em off ebay long time ago the guy said they were good boys and they get along cause they grew up together

 

[squeeker]

female betta, 3 sparkling gouramis, and a female krib in a 10 gallon.

 

[LoachLover]

Yeah I know, but I'm just saying.

What made you even try and put them together in the first place is the real question?

[snapback]849401[/snapback]​

Oh I bought em off ebay long time ago the guy said they were good boys and they get along cause they grew up together

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Well then what was that guy thinking

 

[jkeylounatic]

i kept a betta with three black skirt tetras. no violence on either part. really wierd too because i was sure i would have to separate them

 

[snowyangel]

i kept a betta with three black skirt tetras. no violence on either part. really wierd too because i was sure i would have to separate them

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I found black skirts to be quite docile and harmless imo. They only bicker amongst themselves but left my female betta and guppies alone completely.

 

[Valkyrie]

I use a huge female Oranda Goldfish named Dympna ("Dympna" means "patron st. of the mentally ill" by the way) to babysit my livebearer fry. She could probably inhale them on accident, but so far they've been very safe with her. Her other tankmate is a tiny male feeder guppy--aside from the fry, he's the only fish that never picks on her. Dympna's kind of pathetic.

I also kept several kuhli loaches in an African cichlid tank, once. Far from being picked on, I actually had one Powder Blue male who would guard them like they were his fry. He would stand watch over their cave during the day to make sure that nobody messed with them. During the night, the Kuhli loaches would all decide to explore opposite ends of the tank, and the poor guy kept trying to keep track of them all at once. I don't think he ever got much sleep.

 

[moeldner]

My parents - without first asking for advice - put 2 angels, 2 pearl gourami's, and a few guppys in a 60L tank together.

The angels and gourami's seem to have settled down now, but the guppy's are gone.

She has been better informed now