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ST3PH3NsDISCUS
Thu Jul 26, 2007, 06:26 AM
has anyone has any good or bad experiences when mixing bettas with discus?
stephen

ILLUSN
Thu Jul 26, 2007, 07:16 AM
Bettas went well with discus untill i got a nice male blue turk who thought my bettas finns looked like worms, needless to say i soon had a very tatty looking betta, also in my discus tanks they never seemed to live more than 2 or 3 years, i think due to the higher temps.

scott bowler
Thu Jul 26, 2007, 07:23 AM
i have 1 in one of my tanks and it seems to be doing ok

Greggy
Thu Jul 26, 2007, 07:30 AM
I've had no problems with my Betta and 9 Discus. I think if the Discus start out young and you introduce a Betta early they will grow up together and they won't see him as 'food'. However I can see how an adult Discus suddenly introduced to a Betta might have other plans.

Regards,

Greggy

ST3PH3NsDISCUS
Fri Jul 27, 2007, 01:35 AM
Thank you guys for the info

nicholas76
Fri Jul 27, 2007, 03:04 AM
Ive kepted adult bettas with discus before - not an issue at all.

Discus love eating juvenile bettas but in all my experiences they left the bettas to themselves.

i even kept a large betta with an arrowana once, same deal no probs!