millerb7
Aquarium Advice Activist
1. Okay. I have a 5 gallon tank with a beta and now two ghost shrimp (had 3 but one just wouldn't ever eat or anything and died). How many of these ghost shrimp are a good idea to have in a group? I want to pick up a few more but don't want to overdue it. The beta won't really eat any pellets or flakes, mainly just frozen blood worms. He's a picky little guy.
2. Now to the real questions. I have a second beta, who I planned on putting in my 29 gallon tank. It's almost done cycling so I'm starting to get down to the wire on picking what I want. It seems with the beta my options are REALLY limited. Should I:
* Get another 5 gallon for the beta, and just do a totally different setup with the 29 gallon? Maybe make it a cichlid tank? Or just a Guarami, some tiger barbs, and some other schooling fish?
* Just deal with it and use the beta in the 29 tank? What else can really work with one?
* I know a lot of cichlids are rather big... my LFS has a good selection of the 3-5" range ones though.. so I could get a couple different schools of those.
This beta seems to really be limiting what I can do though. Every fish I've liked so far I can't get because it doesn't seem like it will work with the beta.
Thoughts? Ideas?
2. Now to the real questions. I have a second beta, who I planned on putting in my 29 gallon tank. It's almost done cycling so I'm starting to get down to the wire on picking what I want. It seems with the beta my options are REALLY limited. Should I:
* Get another 5 gallon for the beta, and just do a totally different setup with the 29 gallon? Maybe make it a cichlid tank? Or just a Guarami, some tiger barbs, and some other schooling fish?
* Just deal with it and use the beta in the 29 tank? What else can really work with one?
* I know a lot of cichlids are rather big... my LFS has a good selection of the 3-5" range ones though.. so I could get a couple different schools of those.
This beta seems to really be limiting what I can do though. Every fish I've liked so far I can't get because it doesn't seem like it will work with the beta.
Thoughts? Ideas?