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What would you recommend we put in it, fish wise? You have a bunch of choices depending on what you want If you want small schooling fish, you could do ember tetra, celestial pearl danio, any of the microrasboras boraras merah, boraras brigittae, etc , microdevario kubotai, etc. For the bottom, you could get a school of pygmy cories corydoras pygmaeus or c. If you want a big centerpiece fish, you can always go with a fancy betta. What you end up getting will also depend on what your tap water is like.

This is her husband. If we get a betta would it be possible to get anything else? You could probably still do a small school of pygmy cories for the bottom.

If you get cories make sure that your substrate isn't sharp because that can wear down their whiskers. Sand usually works well with cories. You can also try shrimp especially amanos but be prepared to never see them out and about in the daytime.

With a betta in there it depends entirely on his personality..

But you could do endlers, micro rasbora, a dwarf puffer make sure not brackish , killiefish. There are more but can't think of just do some googling it helps a lot Or can go shrimp route with a nice little colony of shrimp going.

Good luck, appreciate you two are seeking advice. Kworker is online now. We just started with this hobby the week before fathers day and we have 2 10 gallon tanks and the 5 gallon. In my 10 gallon I have a hifin Mickey mouse tail platy. Alot of vals, a sprite, a sword, some dwarf hair grass, and a moss ball. I am working on soaking driftwood to put in it. I have been soaking it for 2 weeks. His 10 gallon has 3 male guppy and the same number of shrimp.

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He has vals, a sprite, dwarf hair grass, a sword, anibus, a moss ball, and 2 banana plants. He just got driftwood Saturday for his tank. We want to eventually make the new tank into a shrimp tank. I'm trying to get a 5 gallon going on as well I'm thinking that a small group of dwarf cories followed by either a single betta, a single dwarf puffer, a single sparkling gourami, or a school of some small fish Since I already have, I would also probably throw in some ramshorn snails and some cherry shrimp.

My 75 gallon High Tech Tank: I've got a 5 I recently got up and running.

I don't recommend shrimp with bettas, puffers, and possibly some killifish, but other than that, shrimp would probably be a great addition.

The shrimp and cories have the same niche food and space wise, so you might want to only have one or the other. I'd go with shrimp, since you can have so many more, and they really are much more colorful.

DBP Club I ride motorcycles. They are, most of the time, more fun to watch than fish. The only problem I have is everywhere around here only sales glass shrimp. They are neat but we already have 2 tanks with about 15 in each and some are reproducing.

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One of our lfs has blueberry shrimp but when we went to get them we only had our 10 gal tanks and they were so small we could barely see them. So we didn't get them in fear of them getting ate. I really would love some cherry or blueberry shrimp just can't find any unless ordered online at a time. There's tons of places online you can get any kind of shrimp imaginable if you don't mind paying for shipping.

I'd suggest you start with some fire reds Post a WTB in the Swap 'n Shop on this forum and someone will send you some shrimp.

Just keep in mind you can't keep cherries and blueberry shrimp together because they will probably interbreed someone correct me on this if I'm wrong. Some shrimp that can be kept with cherries are amanos, tigers, and caridina babaulti. Thanks friendsnotfood, I am going to try that. Quote message in reply? In order to be able to post messages on the The Planted Tank Forum forums, you must first register. Please enter your desired user name, your email address and other required details in the form below.

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