What can I keep in a 1.5 Gal. tank, and Shrimp?

Question

I have my Betta in a 10 Gallon now, and I would like to know what I can keep in his old 1.5 Gallon, just to have something on my desk.

Please also tell me how often I will need to do water changes and of how much.

Shrimp, what kind should I get? Benefits of them? I'd like some for my 10 gallon, how many? I'll have around 4 fish in the 10 gallon....Corys, Mollies, Platys, or tetras.

Answer 1

Personally, I like cherry shrimp and think that 6-8 would be great in a small desk top tank. Give them some bushy plants to climb around in and they will start breeding for you. Feed them regular fine flake food that you crumble up in your fingers as you feed them. Soon you will have enough shrimp to put in your other tank or take to the fish store to trade for some food.

If you have no filter in the 1.5, you should do at least a 25% water change every week. Shrimp do not add much to a bio load.

Answer 2

Well, for 1.5 gallon I'd say you could put another Betta in there or you could put the shrimp in there. You shouldn't put the shrimp in with the Betta because Betta's tend to try and eat shrimp and probably won't leave the shrimp alone till it is dead. For the 1.5 gallon you will have to do a water change once a week of 25%. Ghost shrimp or Cherry Shrimp are good and usually inexpensive. The benefits would be they help clean algae and would eat extra food at the botom of the tank and unlike common plecos they won't get really big. You could put 2 in the 1.5 gallon and I would put none in the 10 gallon. Corys, Mollies, Platies, and Tetras are schooling fish and will need at least six in a group to be ideally happy. I would choose Tetras to go with the betta in the 10 gallon, but any would do fine.

Answer 3

About the only thing I can think of that can survive in a tank that small would be a dwarf frog, a small crab (emphasis on SMALL and you would need a piece of wood or something in the tank going up past the water's surface so it could get out of the water occasionally) a snail or a couple of shrimp. Or a betta like the one you just moved. But as you probably realized, even bettas like more room to swim. Frogs and crabs would need the most frequent water changes - I'd do at least 20% once a week or more with that small of a tank. Half as often with the snail or a couple of shrimp. Add a plant and you will help keep it a little cleaner. Again, with a tank that size, go with a small floating plant, like watersprite or just some java moss. Definitely have java moss if you have shrimp. They love to hang out in it.

Ghost shrimp are pretty cool to watch as they never stop moving. At least their little legs are constantly in motion. They are also cheap and easy to come by at most local pet stores as they are often sold as feeders. There's also the red cherry shrimp (RCS). They are slightly smaller than ghost shrimp but more colorful as the females turn a deep red when mature and in good water conditions. They are filter feeders so don't eat excess food as much as ghost shrimp do, but they are neat to watch and won't bother fry, ever. Amano shrimp are also pretty commonly sold in pet stores and they are a little larger than the other two kinds of shrimp. They are better at eating algae than either of the other two. There are many other kinds of shrimp available, but these 3 are the most commonly available freshwater shrimp and the ones I know the most about.

I'd get cories for your 10 G, especially if you are going to keep them with the betta. They are cute, active, interesting to watch fish that will help keep the bottom free of excess food particles and they are very peaceful and never nip fins. Tetras can be aggressive if not kept in large enough groups to school (6 or more) and mollies can be aggressive (pregnant females can get mean) and both platys and mollies are livebearers and may be prehit and drop fry in your tank landing you with an instant fish overpopulation problem!

Answer 4

Shrimp would be a fun thing to keep in a small tank such a 1.5 gallon. Ghost shrimp, small types of rock shrimp, bumble bee shrimp or Japanese Marsh Shrimp all would do well. Here's a link about them:

http://www.thekrib.com/Fish/Shrimp/

In addition to that, you could keep a Betta (obviously), Some of the smaller killish would do quite well in that tank in a pair or a few Least Killifish (not really a killifish at all but a livebearer). Pygmy cory cats would also do well in that size tank.

MM

Answer 5

No, because of the fact the different man or woman pronounced a minimum of a hundred and twenty gallons. I positioned mine in an outdoors pond and that they ran away so, positioned a fence around the pond. fifty 5 gal won't paintings for lengthy, so supply up dropping money on gradually enhance they're going to like a much bigger one greater useful.

Answer 6

keep wutever floats ur boat
i have a dragon
he eats shrimp
and...dogs
poor fluffy