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I was just wondering if any of you have ever kept a betta in a community tank with an angelfish.

No, and you shouldn't either. Both fish will attack each other viciously.

Some bettas can be peaceful and the site says theyre compatiable

While it's true that some bettas can be peaceful, I wouldn't take that chance. Also the compatibility thing doesn't take into account fish personality, only their temperature, pH, hardness etc.

I think I may just buy a betta sized kit if i decided to get one now about a gallon or so.

Good idea.

I have a female betta in a 55 gal with four other angels and have no problems. I have a very heavily planted tank, though.

Even if the betta doesn't show agression toward the angelfish, the angelfish would probably have a blast shredding all those flowy fins. Female bettas are faster and don't have the flowy fins, so as long as they don't get nippy with the angelfish, they might be okay.

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It might work it might not. You could take the chance, but I wouldn't.

I kept a male betta in my community tank with a breeding pair of Angels for a year. Had no problems. In fact the only fish the betta antagonized was a female leopard danio, but she was much to quick for him and made a game of it.
I think it depends on the betta personally,
and if the tank is big enough.
Mine were in a 90g tank together.



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IMO it can work in a big tank.



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I can only speak from my own perspective, but here goes...

When I used my 55 gal as a community tank, I kept Angels and a Betta, along with various live bearing fish as well (platys, mollies, etc.)...

I didn't have any problems until the Angels began maturing - reaching about 6" in size from fin to fin.... This is definitely when they're breeding urges were full blown... A pair would stake out their breeding ground - and aggressively defend it with everything they had!!! They would attack ANY fish - other angels, betta, platy, etc. - that approached too closely.... And in their attack would be so forceful that you could actually hear their impact across the living room!!! Not only did I witness injury, but death of some of my other fish as well...

Frankly, in these earlier days of my fishkeeping, I hadn't researched enough to realize how big these little quarter size angels would become... OR know how their aggressive tendancies would grow right along with their size!

My initial solution was to separate the breeding pair as soon as the trouble began... but that still left quite a large, agressive male and two other good sized females in the community... so even though the male didn't pair up with either of the females the battles continued.... Due to the lack of space that I had, eventually I took ALL my angels back to my LFS...

My advice would be for you to research the Angel fish -- and then decide if this is for you or not... Should you have a place to move them as they mature, there probably won't be any problems when they're small and young in keeping a Betta with them.... Just make sure to watch them as they gain size... And don't believe the myth that fish only grow to the size of the tank... That simply is not the case!

Good Luck!


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