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[FriendlyLoach]

IDK if a betta could eat a whole neon, but maybe if it was small. Once the neons are bigger its fine, except in my situation the neons would constantly nip the bettas fins. 

[Sophie]

My tetras were juveniles and don't nip fins. I am keeping them in a group of eight.

[Just a Pygmy Corydora]

You could also harvest live baby brine shrimp! It’s also widely known as “sea monkeys” and you can feed baby brine shrimp to your betta fish. By the way, what’s your betta’s name? For tankmates you could add aquatic snails to your aquarium. They will eat the algae and sometimes they will also eat leftover fish food or edible debris.

[Just a Pygmy Corydora]

On 7/23/2021 at 8:36 PM, Sophie said:

My tetras were juveniles and don't nip fins. I am keeping them in a group of eight.

You could try and take care of the neons in a separate tank until they are adults.

[Sophie]

Do Bettas eat aqua dragons?

[Sophie]

I can only get guppy grass. And I want to feed the neon tetras with Betta food, but my Betta will get overfed because she will eat the food. What should I do?

[Sophie]

And I my neon tetras won't eat anything.

[Sophie]

To Just a Pygmy Corydora

My Betta's name is Ariel

[Sophie]

Anyone got any ideas on how I can get my neon tetras to eat?

[Just a Pygmy Corydora]

You need tetra food, they most likely won’t eat the betta food.

[Just a Pygmy Corydora]

On 7/23/2021 at 9:15 PM, Sophie said:

Do Bettas eat aqua dragons?

…aqua dragons? What?

[Just a Pygmy Corydora]

Yes they WILL eat aqua dragon/sea monkeys/brine shrimp. It is actually very good for bettas. You can grow them yourself and feed them to your betta.

Edited July 25, 2021 by Just a Pygmy Corydora

[FrozenFins]

Because Bettas and Tetras are both tropical fish, feed them tropical fish food. Often these come in flakes, but as mentioned your betta doesn't take to flakes. There are tropical fish pellets however.

You could always try to feed the tetras on one side of the tank, and the betta on the other. Feeding the tetras whatever your feeding the betta. I find that sometimes betta pellets can be too big for small little neon tetras.

When my betta was with neon tetras, heres what I did to get both to eat:

• In my experiance most bettas won't eat sinking foods. and if all the food is sinking at the same time, it wont be fast enough to eat all of it. So try and get the neon tetras food to sink, you can do this by pushing the food down with your finger. 
• Then feed your betta floating pellets. My betta seemed to learn that the sinking food was not for him, he would patiently wait for me to drop in his pellets.

Because your betta doesn't like flakes, have you tried feeding your tetras flakes and your betta pellets? Eventually I found that the betta will soon relize the flakes are food, and you can feed the flakes to both fish.

[Sophie]

My betta died eating a neon tetra.

Now I have 2 guppies. Any ideas on how to stop the algae and keep them entertained?

[Hobbit]

Sorry to hear about your betta.

I’d recommend getting a snail, like a nerite snail or a few ramshorn snails. They’ll be safe from your guppies as long as the guppies are getting enough of their own food.

Ramshorn snails will breed in your tank, so you’ll have to remove some every once in a while. The guppies may nip at their feelers, but the snails do just fine without feelers (their eyes are below their feelers on their head, unlike land snails).

Nerite snails won’t breed, but they do lay little white eggs (that don’t hatch) and some people don’t like the look of them.

Guppies are easier to entertain than bettas. I don’t think they’re as smart. 😅 So mixing up the food you give them, adding a new plant every once in a while, and even just wiggling your fingers at the tank are great ways to keep them entertained.

[Sophie]

My dad just won't let me buy new decorations for my tank. The algae has really taken a toll on our tank. He's afraid that the decorations will be covered  with algae. 

[Hobbit]

Can you take a picture of your tank and post it here? We might be able to help more if we can see everything.

[Sophie]

Unfortunately I am using my computer. I don't know how to upload pictures from my phone to this computer. I have a 5 gallon tank and it is covered with black algae. 2 weeks after we clean the tank and it's home to tons of algae. 

[Hobbit]

Got it. And what kind of fish do you have in there? (just the guppies?) Do you have any plants, shrimp, snails, etc? What kind of lights do you have, and how long are they on for?

[Sophie]

I only have guppies. No plants or any decorations. My dad says I can only get one. ANNOYING. My light are one for 12 hours per day. I have no way of finding out what kind of lights I have.

[Sophie]

I only have guppies. No plants or any decorations. My dad says I can only get one. ANNOYING. My light are one for 12 hours per day. I have no way of finding out what kind of lights I have. Oh, and I cannot clean the tank or rearrange the gravel to make it pretty. My dad IS SO ANNOYING. I'm 14!

Whoops. Repeated part of my previous message.

[Hobbit]

Oof. I’m sorry you can’t clean it.

I think it will help if you reduce the time the light is on. Maybe try 8 hours. You can have it on for 3 hours in the morning and 5 hours in the afternoon with a “nap” in between so you get to enjoy the tank with the lights on.

Are you allowed to do water changes? Changing the water more often may help too.

Lastly you could try a product like easy carbon or API algae fix. Just be sure to follow the directions.

[Sophie]

I don't do naps. We do water changes once every 2 weeks. We are not allowed to do it more often. My dad has tried to use some special liquid to reduce the algae but it doesn't work. I am in China.

[BuzzDaddy21]

On 12/31/2021 at 2:07 PM, Hobbit said:

Maybe try 8 hours.

I think 8 hours or less might help.

Is the tank in getting sun??

On 1/4/2022 at 7:15 AM, Sophie said:

I am in China

Thats cool.

[Sophie]

The tank is far from the sun. My dad says no matter how hard I try I cannot get a pretty tank.