stocking a 5g hex

[cgthebeast]

Just grabbed a Hawkeye half hex for a steal. Gonna be awhile till I set it up, so I'm just rolling around ideas here. It's gonna be mid-heavily planted with a sand bottom and a chuck of drift wood I have laying around. Aqua clear filter rated for a 10 g for flow and extra filtration. Running a single bulb t5 grOw light. I knOw I cOuld do a Betts, but looking for somEthing different though. Thought about a dwarf puffer, but feeding would be hard since I live just next to nowhere

 

[SpaceFish42]

Cherry shrimp or African dwarf frogs would do well in a 5 gallon. Or you could do a plants-only setup.

 

[Nils]

An awesome tank would be 4 Scarlet Badis and a whole colony of red cherry shrimp! That would look amazing with plants and driftwood!

Nils

 

[SpaceFish42]

Cherry shrimp or African dwarf frogs would do well in a 5 gallon. Or you could do a plants-only setup.

Actually, I'm going to take that back. An ADF might have trouble swimming to the top of a hex. They prefer wider spaces with shallower water. But cherry shrimp would be excellent.

 

[SpaceFish42]

An awesome tank would be 4 Scarlet Badis and a whole colony of red cherry shrimp! That would look amazing with plants and driftwood!

Nils

Would scarlet badis eat cherry shrimp?

 

[Nils]

No, they would only eat little baby ones, but there are so many born with each batch, only 25% of them would be eaten! The scarlet badis would probably snatch a juvenile shrimp every now and then, but other than that you should be fine, and I'd actually be glad if they ate some of the babies or else everything would be literally covered in shrimp! And then the scarlets are fed, too.

Nils

 

[Mebbid]

A betta would work well in this tank as well

 

[TheresaM]

If you go with badis in that size tank make sure you only have 1 male.

Betta, small group of male Endlers, sparkling gourami, micro raboras.

 

[cgthebeast]

I'm think of getting a scarlet badis or a male/female pair, but I know females are harder to come by. The endless are a good idea also.


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[TheresaM]

You'd see more activity with Endlers, badis tend to be more shy.

 

[cgthebeast]

Hmm, true. Anything off live aquaria is what I'm looking at. I have to order some Otos for my 36g so just gonna order all my stock off of it when I get it set up. Anything that jumps would be fine ad well as this tank is fully Inclosed.


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[cgthebeast]

Hmm, starting to venture off the live aquaria as I can't get a viable pair. Also started to look at Wild type Bettas such as B.Falx or Smaragdinq


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