Betta/rcs Experiment = Fail

[AJanzen]

So, picked up a dragon plakat betta from AC today, nice coloring and good flare. Didn't have a solo tank ready for him so decided to see how he'd fare in the dedicated RCS tank, figured I had quite a few shrimp to spare and he couldn't do that much damage. After releasing him he proceed to devour 14 juvi's and one adult RCS in less than a minute (the time it took me to round up my net and fish him out). No major damage done to the shrimp population but obviously that wasn't gonna work hahaha. I think if I would've left him in there he would've gorged himself to death in the first few hours. Note to self: don't try again. So now he's living in the 75G planted community tank.

[Wingin' It]

sucks learning lessons the hard way.

[SuperGuppyGirl]

Ouch! I have been wanting to try it but was too chicken, I did add some rasboras maculata and some emerald dwarf rasboras to my rcs 10 gallon with no issues and almost thinking adding some pygmy and hastatus corys next to round it out

[AJanzen]

I kinda expected it to not go well, thought I'd give it a go anyways. I've had friends do it successfully but their bettas were usually older, slow moving, and chilled out. Might've worked better with a halfmoon or something but dragon plakat was definitely a bad choice.

[Sierra]

I've only ever had one female who didn't have any interest in RCS. I've tried many...it only takes one to decimate the population rather quickly.