What Algae eating fish (tank cleaners) can be with a betta fish?

Question

What Algae eating fish can be with a betta fish safely

Answer 1

Most algae eating fish could live with a Betta, but they are fish that have their own care requirements that are a lot higher than a betta can survive.

Unless you have a 15gal+ tank thats heated and filtered, dont get any of them.

Assuming you have a proper tank setup then a Bristlenose pleco would be fine. They dont get too big (4-6"), are peacefull, but tough (armour plated)

But dont get any fish just to clean up algae, you will still need to feed whatever you purchase. Whatever you do, dont get a common or sailfin pleco. Although they can live fine with a Betta, you will need a 90gal tank eventually!

Ian

Answer 2

If you have algae in your Betta tank, you're not changing the water enough.

Answer 3

It depends more on the size of your tank than that it will live with a betta.  Most algae eating fish will grow to be a foot long or more and are not suitable for small tanks.  In a 5 gallon tank which is the minimum a betta should be housed in, you could add a couple coryadoras.

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Answer 4

basically anything but if you have a small tank than it is best to get 3 cories since they must be in schools of 3 or more

Answer 5

well if your tank is small you will probably only be able to get something along the lines of a cory cat. other algae eaters can actually get very very large. as long as it doesnt have long flowing fins the betta should leave it alone

Answer 6

I'm not sure about fish, but I've always bought snails to eat up the algae. Good luck. :)

Answer 7

Any algae eater can go with betta except chinese eater, it tend to be very aggressive when it grows bigger. But if you want a strong armor algae eating fish, i suggest pleco, it is peaceful algae eating fish and can be kept with even more aggressive fishes, however, it grows huge(18 inches).

Don't get snails, first its not a fish. Second, you will not notice when it dies, it will become very stinky and pollute the water, all your fishes will die.