Office Tank

[grass nerd]

I got the 5 gal Aqua-Tech Hex at Wal-Mart for 29.99. I got a little Junior heater, real quite, works great in the office.

 

[Hrafnkel]

I have the same tank, with some fake plants in the bottom, and my betta. He loves it.

 

[gheitman]

I used to keep an Eclipse Hex 5 tank on my desk at my previous job. It was planted with a sand substrate and I had some cherry barbs swimming around in it. It was equipped with a 50W Tronic heater which kept the temperature stable. I kept a bucket with siphon and dipping net behind my desk and did a partial water change once a week. I fed the fish two or three times a day except on weekends when they weren't fed at all. I had to bring the tank home when I left that job and it is sitting on my kitchen counter right now.

 

[severum mama]

Hey grass nerd, have you decided what you will be keeping?

 

[AoiGSR]

after my boss gave me this:

I migrated him to this (when it was brand new):

I change 1 gallon a week, have to find a way to get rid of the algae :x

After 6 months, this is where I am at:

It's a 3 Gallon Eclipse tank. I love it

Contemplating of swapping it out to a condo now (6 gallon Eclipse)

My Betta is pretty active 8)

 

[youronlysin]

Pretty sweet. I love Bettas. Thats a great home for a single betta too...very generous.

If you have an algae problem, is there any way you could put a timer on the light in order to reduce the amount of time it is on in a day? If you leave the light on all the time, you can spark an algae bloom very easily. It looks great though, I dont see anything bad growing in there.

 

[AoiGSR]

hrm... i have a timer set from 8:30 to 5:30 actually Although I dunno if that's too much. Perhaps more plants! I know the light is the problem

 

[youronlysin]

Thats only 9 hours a day. Usually too much light or the light being on too long is the cause for that type of algae. Yours might be caused by something else. More plants is always good!

 

[AoiGSR]

This Eclipse 3 comes with a 6W lamp. The 6 Gallon comes with a measly 8W. I'll have to see how creative I can get I had a bunch of Anarchis in there but eventually, they decayed. I was told it could grow floating but not sure