Keeping Betta With Guppies

However since betta fish is semi aggressive it is important to take a few precautions in order to protect the guppies.

Keeping betta with guppies. Guppies are not large fish so a bigger betta could end up harming or bullying them. Keeping guppies and betta fish in same tank. After a few days add the betta.

In this way you can divert the focus of betta on one guppy. Keep multiple guppies with single betta so that it can t hunt down a single guppy. Males are notoriously not okay with guppies because they look like other bettas.

In addition be mindful of betta personality. Personally i wouldn t go any smaller than a. Hope you enjoy the video.

It is important to note that if you provide sufficient cover and hiding spots the chances of the newly added betta showing aggression reduces. Bettas and fancy guppies can apparently be together successful betta tank mates i have had experience with pleconeon tetr. Add the guppies first so that they become dominant in the tank.

In most cases you can. As a rule of thumb you want to have one gallon of water for every fish in your tank. Keeping one betta fish with many guppies is the finest way to go with.

Although the betta fish can also use the live plants as hiding spots too. While guppies spend most of their time in the front of the tank bettas are more reclusive and will generally stick to their corner of the tank. First as lots of plants to your tank so that there s a lot of hiding places available.