Buying fish

[chickenboy7c2d]

another question: what fish can go with a male betta?

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Anything he cant eat. But they may chew up his tail.

 

[chickenboy7c2d]

i was thinking of getting:

60l tank
6 silvertop tetras
5 blind cave fish
2 honey gouramis
3 zebra danios
2 black mollies
1 algae eater

21l tank
2 male guppies
4 female guppies


if that is too many can you tell how many i should get from each of those breeds. which tank shall i keep the betta in?

 

[key west chick]

I'm pretty sure a 60 long is still 60 gallons, not 14. Its length is just longer than a standard 60 gallon tank, if there is such a thing as a 60 gallon.

 

[Manda0227]

My fiance and I have 4 fish tanks goin on in here. We have a 90gal African Cichlid tank, a 55 gal Community tank, a 55 gal with just a few fish in it- its new, and a 26 gal for all my "mini" fish. (threadfin rainbows, and a few other fish that stay really small). I wouldn't say to stuff your tanks full. Leave some room, and make sure you do water changes at least once a week. That way if you are heavy on fish in your tank, it won't be so bad. Tanks with too many fish and not enough water changes can get ammonia burn. Also, when selecting fish- if you see tanks with fish in it that have white stuff on them. (it looks like little sugar or sand granules stuck on the fish), RUN. Thats Ich, and it sucks. Im not sure where you are located, but luckily for us we're in Massachusetts and we have the best fish store I have ever been in! Its a small little bussiness, so if you find somewhere like that in your area- that'd be your best bet for information, and your fish! When you are ready to get your fish- remember to only add a few at a time. If you put everyone in all at once it shocks the system too much, and can cause everything to crash.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Quote:
I thought they meant 60 liter.
I assumed they were in Britain.

A 60 liter tank is 15 gallons. Well just short of in anyway.

A 20 liter tank 5 gallons.

 

[key west chick]

Well that makes sense! I thought they were talking about a long tank. Derrr!!!

 

[Akane]

Try fishprofiles.com . They have profiles for all sorts of fish and a forum. You will get much more detailed answers there from very experienced aquarists.

First decision is do you want a community or species tank? A 14gallon tank generally should not have more than 2 species of fish and then only if stocked just right and only 1 schooling species of about 5-8 fish. You could do 1 school of small tetras in the middle and then a small pleco (absolutely, definitely, not your common pleco but something like a bristlenose or clown plecos) or a school of medium to smaller corydoras (not big ones like bronze and keep the water quality up if you go with the very small species) and a dwarf gourami, other smaller gourami (not paradise fish/gouramis), or a couple livebearers. That would be typical stocking for a small community tank. If you want to do a species tank you could breed gouramis of all sorts, rams or other small cichlids, etc... There are tons of species specific possiblities but you have to be ready to settle on one species only because that tank isn't big enough for doing much with more than one unless you do the standard community tank like I mentioned.

 

[chickenboy7c2d]

yep i do live in britain.

http://www.chessingtongardencentre....egoryID=AQU-FISTRO&selection=0&subselection=5

this is where i am going to get my fish from. what do you recomend that is available there? and i don't want to spend too much money.

 

[Akane]

Here are the fish from that site that I would consider suitable for that tank: Glowlight, honey gourami, betta (male/female), guppy, platy, swordtail, ram, cardinal tetra, neon, penguin tetra, amano shrimp, phantom tetra, panda cory, bumble bee goby, harlequin rasbora, white cloud (minnow cloud mountain), lampeye killie, kribensis, scissortail rasbora, diamond tetra, pristella tetra.

Now let's organize them.

list #1
Glowlight
cardinal tetra
neon tetra
penguin tetra
phantom tetra
harlequin rasbora
white cloud (referred to on there as minnow cloud mountain)
scissortail rasbora
diamond tetra
pristella tetra

list #2
honey gourami
female betta
male betta
guppy
platy
ram
lampeye killie
kribensis
swordtail

list #3
panda cory
amano shrimp

list#4
bumble bee goby


So... If you want a species tank pick any fish from list #2 or #4 and make a tank around them. You can breed them, watch them raise their young, enjoy a single species of fish doing what they do. Bumble bee gobies are on their own because they are brackish water fish. You will have to buy salt like is used in marine tanks and measure certain amounts to reach a saliinity between fresh and seawater.

If you want a community tank pick a fish from list #1 or the cories on list #2 (not both) and add 6-8 fish depending on size. Then pick a fish from list #2 and add 1 if it's the male betta or 2-3 of any of the others again depending on size. If you do not use cichlids (rams, kribensis) or labyrinth fish( gouramis, bettas) you could possibly add amano shrimp. If you really want shrimp with minimal risk to them leave out list #2.

These are my opinions on stocking based on 10 years of having tanks from 5g freshwater to 30g brackish to 20g marine to 90 fully planted freshwater with no filtration and years spent on the fishprofiles forum. Another good site is http://www.aquahobby.com/e_freshwater_tropical_aquarium_fish.php . Put your fish name in the search bar in the corner and then select the correct one from the search. It will tell you size, recommended tank size (keep in mind this is for that fish only not a tank stocked with multiple fish), and comments from people about how well that fish gets along in various setups.