new arrivals! yay

dorabaker

community fish seem to love attacking bettas! I guess they think the flowing fins are fun to bite. I had a male betta in a community tank once and he didn't even survive a day. All the other fish - guppies, mollies, supposedly 'peaceful' species - just tore him to shreds!

Byron

This confirms what several of us frequently say, that Betta should be on their own. Almost any characins will find their fins enticing.

Ogre44

Yeah, that's why he now lives with a bunch of corys.
I don't have the heart to move him to smaller quarters, he seems to love the 29 gallon, and he was my first fish so he gets special consideration due to what I've put him through while learning the skills to be a good aquarist.

cpwebsite

Congratz, those are some great fish, and they all work together. As your tank matures you may want to try getting back in with corries, wonderful fish... just make sure you know what went wrong last time.

dorabaker

I think it may have been an ammonia problem (which only affected the corys, and not the other fish, because corys are so super-sensitive.) I've been talking in another thread about this. I didn't have many fish in the tank before I got the corys, so I think the levels of bacteria dropped because the bioload was small. and when I bought a heap of corys, the ammonia suddenly peaked because there weren't enough bacteria to cope with them.
I'm not sure how I can solve this problem, as it seems likely to happen no matter what I do. But lots of water changes might help! anyway, at the moment I think I'd be overstocking if I got any more fish, so for now, no corys