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My betta coexisted with two cleaners for a year or so. It would take the odd lunge at them because they annoyed it or tried to take its food. They were similar sizes but when the betta got just a little bigger he took them out in two days. It may have been because I was away and it missed a couple of meals but I knew it could happen and was cycling another tank for them at the time (I simply thought they were too big at that time as they were fully grown).
The betta is now 7" or so I'd limit the fish I put with it if I were to ever add anything but apart from shrimps and a couple of emerald crabs (which I found dead with it hanging around), I've never lost cuc like hermits or snails to it. It has eaten all my bristle worms though.
7"?! Wow, that's big! I had one for about 8 years, she never got past 5". She was awesome, out all the time, ate pellets out of my feeding ring, coexisted with plenty of small fishes like wrasses and firefish.
And would absolutely eat cleaner shrimp!
Roughly 7" but that's including the massive tail. It was handpicked out of 50 or so at the wholesaler as it was the most outgoing one there. It now eats out of my fingers but only has two true Darwin clowns as tankmates (fishwise). I have seen a few larger ones out there and if you see the potential of them you soon forget about shrimps
Mine is full grown with 3 peppermints, 2 fire shrimp, 1 cleaner, and a trio of tiny chromis. No issues for almost 2 years. Hasn't even looked at the little scrimps
Nope. Absolutely not.Would a marine betta eat a black long spine urchin? I can't find mine today and it's not exactly hard to find...