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5.5 Gallon Setup Freshwater?

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:56:43 +0000

1 Betta
2 Male Guppies
1 Ghost shrimp

Should I remove some? Add some? Get different species? Thanks:D

interested in a dwarf freshwater puffer any owners out there?

admin — Sun, 13 May 2012 16:57:04 +0000

im not irresponsible so i am doing all the research before even setting up a tank im just curious about how i might go about getting one as i fell in love with there cute little eyes at the store,i currently keep shrimp snails betta and breed platies sucesfully.im an mad animal lover so literally spend more time and money on them than me so dont give me some smarmy stupid answers or il simply report you.

Using black sand as a substrate?

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:56:11 +0000

I have a ten gallon tank that currently has some blue standard aqarium gravel. It is freshwater, but I would still like to change the substrate to black sand. So how would I go about that? It is the home to a male betta, 3 cory cats and two ghost shrimp. Would I have to catch them and toss them in a bucket with the tank water and then scrape out all the gravel and add the black sand? Would my tank have to recycle even if I used the same filter and plants/decoration?

Also would it be okay to just get black play-sand and rinse it in a pillow case and then soak it for a week?
Okay, I can get the aqarium sand, but were would I keep my fish for two weeks?
Okay are you sure I don’t have to recylce? I know a lot of people don’t know what they are talking about, but I trust you as you usally give awsome advice. I am going to check around on some various fish forums just in case(:
Ooo I like the idea of having the gravel on the bottom and covering it with sand(: But eventually I might get a khulie loach or two and I think they would be surprised when they went to burrow…

What animals can live with my betta?

admin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:57:58 +0000

I have a cycled,filtered 10 gallon freshwater betta tank with a male betta and 5 ghost shrimps and a bunch of silk plants.
The betta does not eat or bother the ghost shrimps, he just looks at them and swims away.
What other fish, or animal like ghost shrimps can live with my betta? and if its a fish can you please say names of fish that are not very messy?

Is it ok to put a ghost shrimp, aquarium frog,or snail in a tank with A BETTA? Is it safe for both creatures?

admin — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:00:23 +0000

I hear that the bettas will eat ghost shrimp but how will the fish react with a small aquarium tank frog or a snail? My betta “Albus” is very tempramental and lives in a one gallon aquarium. I need to … Continue reading →

10 Points for best answer… Do i really have to feed high quality food to Fish to breed them?

admin — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:59:14 +0000

This is just and edited version of my question, but.. doFish such as bettas (siamese fighting fish). Do they really need high quality foods such as brine shrimp if i want them to breed. I usually feed my betta fish betta fish pellets. If i wanted to breed them, couldnt i just feed them the pellets. (by the way i already know how to breed betta fish, im just asking if it’s ok to feed freshwater fish their flake
and/or pellet food in order for them to spawn and if they will still spawn if i feed them their flake/ pellet foods)

My betta sorority

admin — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:54:35 +0000

This is another 10g planted aquarium. I have 5 female bettas (1 red cambodian VT, 1 blue cambodian VT, 2 blue DT, and a red CT) another ADF and some ghost shrimp.
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what happens if i put a freshwater?

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:34:07 +0000

shrimp with my betta fish?

should i do it?

Question about Goldfish, Betta, and small bowl.?

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:32:14 +0000

First a bit of background about myself, I’m quite experienced with owning freshwater fish.
I currently own tanks with guppies, red-tail sharks, mollies, gouramis, mbunas, catfishes, platies, shrimps, clown/kuhli/yoyo loches, etc. And i think i’m doing really well with it.

However, i have never owned a Betta, or a Goldfish, though i have an idea of how to treat them.
But I have never owned a mini bowl tank. Unfortunatley, i have received a “betta bowl” for xMas, that looks similar to this in terms of size:

http://www.altavistamall.com/psproducts/ACU07001.jpg

Given that I will make use of it, probably putting my first Betta in…

~~~First (set of) question:~~~
How does it really work?
As in, would you even cycle that?
Would you bother putting gravel in it, i’m planning to have horn wort in it, which doesn’t necessary need gravel.
How do you do water change? I don’t think vacuum cleaner is an option. It’s so small too, wouln’d pouring water in and out so stress the fish?
And given how small the bowl is, how often do you change the water?
My room is quite cold in winter, maybe 10-15 celcius? You can’t put a heater in that thing.
Right.. i really dont’ get how those stores can have maintain those cups of bettas…

~~~ Second (set of ) questions: ~~~
Please don’t kill me, but on the box, it says don’t get mistaken by the name, thought it’s called “Betta Bowl”, you can put a golfish in.
Now i’m pretty surprised, i thought Goldfish needs BIG tank for how messy they are. So I think it’s lying.
But in case i’m wrong, do you know any kind of GOldfish that can be happy in that bowl?

THanks!

male betta tank mates for a ten gall tank?

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:33:32 +0000

i have a ten gallon tank with a heater for 78 -80 degrees and a male betta hes very un aggressive if i put my pinkie in there and wiggle it he looks at it then swims away and i put a mirror up to him he still doesnt do anything hes just a cute ball of playfulness so anyway i have a african dwarf frog that will be moving in and i wanna know what other fish and how many can move in too please put suggestions like

1 betta

1 african dwarf frog

3 (insert fish)

and so on for how many fish oh and also can i put anything like freshwater shrimp in there or snails? and if you say male bettas cant live with other fish dont answer cause ive seen it done anyway please and thx