Bettas and red cherry shrimp

[titan848]

Ok well ive got a beta in a 2.5 gallon tank right now and im just about to plant it and if algae becomes a problem i think ill add red cherry shirmp. Ive heard of bettas and shrimp not getting along to well, anyone had any experience with this combo?

[2la]

I had a male betta that picked an Amano shrimp apart when I transferred it and cherry red from a nano tank, which was getting overheated. I think the cherry red succumbed to a spike-tailed paradise fish. Labyrinth fish can be idiosyncratic, but it's not something I'd recommend generally.

[Slaigar]

I have a betta that is very unfriendly so it lives in a bowl by itself now. I once tossed a single glass shrimp in there and it lasted for about a day. It got bitten in half once the betta started eyeing it!

[BonesCJ]

I had a Betta in a 5 gallon with 3 Ghost shrimp and everyone was fine. The betta would creep up to the shrimp and they would start poking him with their long old antennas and he would back off.

[GDominy]

Its hit and miss with Betta's and inverts. I have a positively evil betta right now that spits snails and shrimp out of his bowl at me. I've decided to move him into a tank of his own at home and retire my planted fishbowl at work (too much hassle for me to manage at work).

[datkatliono]

I've got 4 bettas(3 females and 1 male) in a ten gallon planted tank. They get along pretty well like a school of fish, of course after their trial and error period of establishing pecking order but anyways what supprised me the smallest and useally least aggressive female hates my snail. I put him in there to help out with the algae and she wouldnt rest until she picked him off the glass. She didnt eat him though-Im starting to fish she did. But I thought it was weird that she is the only betta I've ever had in 2 years and about 5 males and 3 previous females who have ever attached my snail.
Go Figure :lol:

[digger]

I tried a betta with an african dwarf frog. Thats not a good combo either.

[sunnysmom]

My betta lives with Emerald eye rasboras, some otos and a woodcat. There were 5 amano shrimp in there, but he ate them all. The last one lived in the filter for many months. When I would rinse the filter media, he would swim out, then go back in right away. This week the Betta got him first. I found his little tail shell lying on an Anubias leaf that evening. Bad Betta!

Stacey