Can Siamese fighting fish Live With Guppy?
Compatibility assessment for Siamese fighting fish and Guppy
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Long-finned fish are the one group to rule out with a betta. Species with trailing finnage should certainly be avoided, because a male betta may view them as rivals, and male guppies carry exactly that kind of long, flowing tail.
Water chemistry would not stop you. Guppies take 17 to 28 °C at pH 7 to 8 and a betta manages 22 to 30 °C at pH 6 to 8, so a tank around 24 to 28 °C and pH 7 to 8 suits both on paper. The conflict is behaviour, not chemistry.
Keep them in separate tanks. Guppies do well in a quiet community with other livebearers, rasboras, corydoras, small loricariids and tetras, and a betta is best kept on its own. Plan the guppy tank for growth, too: females give birth to fully formed fry every 25 to 30 days, and dense planting lets some of them survive.
Sources: seriouslyfish.com/species/betta-splendens · seriouslyfish.com/species/poecilia-reticulata
Siamese fighting fish
Betta splendens
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Guppy
Poecilia reticulata
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