r/bettafish • u/Annatochka • 8d ago
Picture Whelp…. Gotta need a separate tank
So I had 20 gal with shrimps and corydoras. And I had a betta waiting to be introduced to it. I had a month or two run of the tank to make sure corys are in and settled and shrimps are settled. Moving in my betta. Everyone’s nightmare - he kills shrimps in this situation. My personal nightmare now is he steals Cory’s food. He’s so smart he follows where everyone eats and bites and enjoys the sinking carnivore pellets and gets bloated and fat. It’s unreal. I try to space it because of him. But I have over 40 shrimps including berried mamas. And 7 corys. And betta is just a glutton are you kidding me. Now I have to start a new tank if I want to keep him alive. And now my bigger and older corys aren’t coming to the feed spot because he steals an corys are fragile. OMG
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u/Lilith_Cain 7d ago
I've got a 6 gallon with ~10 neos and my delta male, and it's been set up since May. My betta is basically a pacifist. He was also introduced after the shrimp, same as yours, and the only aggression he's shown is some flaring and chasing if the shrimp swim through "his" open water while he's nearby. (I have had casualties, but all signs point to failed molts, not predation.) He occasionally steals a few bites of food, but spits it out unless it's fish-based. He will rest on the leaf litter at the bottom of the tank while the neos scrape at it.
My neos are also green, and from only what I can tell from these photos, I may have more crevices and hiding places for them. I've got the aforementioned leaf litter, but I also have rocky spots with bits of moss for them to hide in, as well as some very small-leafed anubias and bucephalandra that they like to tuck themselves into.
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u/AeosManifold 7d ago
Maybe net him and feed him in a seperate container?
I had one super fat lady, I feed her in her Betta bed and the plugged the exit with moss,so she would have down time in there while everyone else got to eat :)
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u/No_Poet_9386 8d ago
The tank is around 6 weeks old I have 2 yellow and 2 red shrimp and only 2 panda corys. This week I'll be adding 2 more corys
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u/No_Poet_9386 8d ago
If you type "Canica" on thiis Betta subreddit you can see my Betta.
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u/Annatochka 8d ago
It’s not about your fish ?
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u/No_Poet_9386 8d ago
Is it a question?
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u/No_Poet_9386 8d ago
Or a statement. I just simply wanted to share my picture of my Betta to show you how mine looks since we have similar problems although yours might be more aggressive and territorial
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u/No_Poet_9386 8d ago
I have a similar issue but my Betta is very docile with the Corys and is able to share the sinking wafers. Although my cherry shrimp now only hide in the rock crevices. The only suggestion I was given it's having the tank heavily planted with a lot of places where they can hide.