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by **flip** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:57 pm

so, for our anniversary my hubby got me a 5 gallon tank set up!! i was shocked! i asked for one but never imagined he would get it for me seeing as i already have 5 tanks set up Very Happy

i cleaned some sand and put it in with a heater, plants and coconut cave and filled it up to make sure it wasnt going to leak and make sure it is all working ok. now i need help figuring out what to put in it! ive been wanting another boy, but i want to look at all options i may have before i settle!!!! any suggestions?

by **kizno1** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:01 pm

Theres quite a few different things that could go in there
any of the 3 types of pygmy corys
honey gouramis
sparkling gourami
endlers
galaxy rasbora
ember tetra
cherry shrimp
ADFs

I personally would go for somethinklike
6 pygmy corys
4 endlers 1M 3F
1 sparkling gourami

or
6 pygmy corys
6 galaxy rasbora
1 male endler.

by **flip** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:07 pm

i would love the cories, but i have never seen any in any of the lfs's i have, i may have to ask the one i sell the snails too if they can even get them.... i havent seen endlers either, or cherry shrimp Sad

just ghost shrimp. im starting to feel left out! i do like and have seen the sparkling gouramis, is the tank big enough? i didnt think it would be, but if it is that is great!

by **kizno1** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:18 pm

Ghost shrimp will get quite big for a 10G. Most lfs will ordder fish in for people if they can make ome money out of it haha. Sparkling gouramis will be fin in there IMO. You could get away with 3 if you had nothing else in the tank

by **flip** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:24 pm

kiz, its a 5 gallon. hehe where's your reading glasses? lol!

by **kizno1** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:27 pm

I sat on them and broke them:[ jokes I think 3 would work in a 5 g aslong as it is long 5G if is tall then i would go for smaller shaoling fish.

by **flip** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:31 pm

the tank dimensions are 16x8x10inches.

by **kizno1** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:35 pm

I think you could have 3 in there aslong as theres a couple of hiding places. Or you could go for a pair of wild bettas

by **flip** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:37 pm

never seen wilds either, i think i may have to move over there where you all are!! its too expensive to order them on the comp and apparentally where i am the lfs's stink! lol!

by **kizno1** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:44 pm

Haha you dont really see them that much over here in lfs yonhave to buy them off breeders. Haha

by **flip** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:55 pm

well i want to be by some breeders too Sad

i live in the country and aparentaly i must be the only one here into fishkeeping on a serious level!! the people i know with tanks just put water in and whatever fish they want and thats it, no testing or w/c's. poor fish!!

ok so im going to ask my lfs about the gouramis and pygmy cories and see what my options there are adn if not then what else can i do? i looked at the bettas last night, but only one caught my eye but his eyes had what looked like and extension of his coloring over the top half of them or else he would have came home with me then.

by **kizno1** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:07 pm

Thats not to good :[
If you cant get shrimp, endlers, gourami or corys then the only other things i can think of that ca go in there are ember tetra, galaxy rasbora and ADFs apart from that i think a betta is your only other option. Some bettas do have the scaling/colouring that covers overthere eyes haych has a white pair like that. I wouldnt personally buy one but i dont know if it actually harms the fish or just means they cant see aswell.

by **flip** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:15 pm

i dont know either, thats why i didnt get him. hubby wouldnt be too happy if i bought him and then he died. he was stunning though, HMBF plakat with really nice coloring. so basically a betta with maybe a ADF or two? can they go together?

by **kizno1** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:30 pm

What colour was he? ive noticed a couple and all have had white in them. Some people have bettas and ADFs together perfectly fine but other have had problems with the ADFs grabbing the bettas tail. I personally wouldnt risk it but its up to you.

by **flip** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:44 pm

he was a scarlet red, purple with the white butterflying to his fins. he looked mostly purple with the scarlet accenst to his body and fins. so so pretty! ok so probs not on the ADF, but if i get a plakat do you think the ADF would bother him? there arent any cories that arent pygmy is there? i dont think there are but have to ask.

oh i looked on the box the tank came in and the dimensions are actually 16x8.5x10 in. it works out to be 5.89US gallons.

by **kizno1** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:52 pm

Ive never kept ADFs with PK or heard about it so i cant really help you much there. Pygmy corys are the only types of corys that IMO can be kpt in anything under 10G. Thats a good size for a 5G it gives you alot more options than if it was a tall tank.

by **flip** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:07 pm

yeah it is a lot longer than tall thank goodness!! i just got off of the phone witht the owner of the lfs i take the snails to and she is going to talk to her supplier and see if she can get me in the pygmies!! i hope she can! she is having me call on mon. to go over the list of what is availible from them and if they arent on the list she said she will call them and see if they can get them and why not if they cant, she is awesome.

by **kizno1** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:13 pm

Thats really good.
Just so you know theres 3 different types of pygmys
corydoras hastatus
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corydoras habrosus
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corydoras pygmaeus (these are what i have)
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by **flip** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:18 pm

i knew there were the different types but havent really looked into too much about them since i had never seen them in the lfs. will all three types be ok in the 5g?

by **kizno1** on Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:21 pm

Yh all 3 will be fine they all get to about 2cm fully grown with males slightly smaller.

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