oh and glofish work with them too

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Agreed She is the best person I know who knows so much about Bettas

Yeah I agree with your nice setup. I've got some cory cats too. I have one in my 10 gallon, 2 in my 29 gallon, and 20 for my 125 gallon tank. Also, I find that Cardinal Tetras are a lot more stronger than Neon Tetras. Neons aren't as tough as Cardinals meaning that Cardinals can withstand more of the water parameter levels changing. Like the pH could change slightly or a lot and they would be able to adapt to it, also, Neons may die if the water isn't very clean. I've had cardinals survive and the water isn't very clean. Although at that point when the water gets too cloudy, I start to do lots of water changes. 15% twice on the first day, and then 10% on second day, and then after that I will do a 5% water change once a day until the cloudiness has gone.

So I agree with everything, but the Neons. Unless you are able to have a good filter, and do water changes frequently. Like two times a week. that's what I do. One water change on every Wednesday, and a gravel wash, and water change every Fridays.

I think kris has in mind what he wants in his tank and I would not stick all those fish in a 10 gallon. Sorry to say that in my opinion that is hugely overstocked. the betta and Cardinals by themselves will fill that tank and be a good load. Cories will take up the tank nearly alone with no other fish and otos on top of it all would be way too much.

No neons with bettas please they are serious fin nippers but to my knowledge the Cardinals have not ever been a problem.

It is fine to recommend fish for a tank but in the end it has to be a person's own choice what they put in there as it is after all their own tank and they should make it their own but remember there is a reason that some fish are not recommended to be together and there are limits to how many fish can be in a tank of any size.

While I think the tank that you suggested would be lovely without the neons but with Cardinals instead, it would need at least a 29 gallon tank to be appropriate for those fish and a betta.

Rose

Yeah I've heard of the same thing with Neons. That's why I don't bother buying them. Unless they are in a large school in a large tank. I've kept some with angels before but the tank was huge. I've kept neons and angels in a 250 US gallon long tank, and as long as I've got a LOT of live plants, and give a good amount of food to all of my fishes, then that seemed fine for me

Other than that, I wouldn't bother keeping Neons in with Bettas, or Angels or any fishes that have long fins. Cardinals, I like better. I try to get a male Betta that has the colors similarly alike to the Cardinals. A friend of mine raises Betta fishes as a hobby. She has more than 50 of male and/or female Bettas. She told me they are easy to maintain, especially if you have a bunch of tanks, jars, vases etc.

No on the jars or vases if you want to keep them healthy, but that is my way of doing it. Some people keep them in them but I do not believe in it. They do so much better in heated and filtered tanks, they are actually tropical fish after all.

Rose

Ah yes. I hear they are native fishes from South East Asia. Like Thailand or India?

My little guy in my avatar came from Thailand but some come from Cambodia or other areas of the Orient and some are bred right here in the USA. But the general origin of the species is Southeast Asia. The fish found in the wild there do not in any way too much resemble the fish we own or see in the stores though. The body shape is similar but they do not have fins like the beauties we see here and they are not lovely colors. They tend to be green/brown in color and have very short spade shaped fins. These long finned beauties would not last a day in the waters they live in.

Rose