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Angelfish get very large , about 6 inches so this tank is too small to house them. As for the other four i’m not too sure.

You could try a pair of dwarf puffers? These sell for a decent amount and not many people breed them as the majority are wild caught.

Kuhli loaches need plenty of space at the bottom of the tank to move around. 5g is far too small i would suggest a 25 g long at least for them.

Two male bettas will always fight, sometimes to the death. It is possible to keep a male with a group of females however. But they may breed. As for other inhabitants many shrimp should do fine in a tank this size, I have amanis, cherry shrimp and blue velvet in a 60l and they do great. You...

It works great and if you get particularly big snails put them in the main tank and they may reproduce without the puffers finding the eggs so you never have to feed them, other then the occasional bag of blood worms.

Yeah i was thinking a better idea of what to do with this moss is just to plant it in plant pots around my house. Or try submerse it for a while in my spare tank and see how it does.

Has anyone ever tried growing sphagnum moss underwater. I was in the reptile section of my lfs and I found a box of sphagnum moss so i bought it to see what I could do with it. Has anyone ever tried doing this?

I had 10 khulis in a 55g and they were amazing little fish they would fly around the tank so fast. They may hide a bit and they are nocturnal but if you have the light on during the evening you will see them flying around the tank. Never had any issues with them, they’re my favourite little fish.

Whenever I am in my lfs I ask for him all the pest snails they have, I let them breed in a separate tank and then feed them to my dwarf puffers! It’s a great way to not have to cash out on live food like blood worms.

Just out of curiosity what fish are you putting into this tank?

You should get a smaller type of shrimp just be safe, such as red cherry shrimp, blue velvet shrimp or yellow shrimp etc.

You mentioned goldfish? I hope you do know goldfish and betta fish need completely different environments.

Could anyone recommend any good floating plants? I would like to add some to my 18g long tank. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I wanted to do this for my dwarf puffers. What would i feed these things to grow them to adults?

Maybe a group of otocinclis? These could do the job. However no fish is guaranteed to get rid of algae and it is better to rid of it manually.

For a 5 gallon tank you could keep something such as chili rasbora, maybe a group of about 6, or you could keep some endlers guppies, about 6 as well. As long as the betta is the only fish in one of the tanks it should be fine. You can put many shrimp into small tanks, you could probably have at...

Just me who’s only 15 then? Oh

Lots of stores will take donations of fish, near me anyway. He should probably just keep trying to find a store that will take them in.

Maybe you could keep a species of crab?

This behavior is completely normal for platys, however moving them to a separate tank may have stressed them causing them to hide, but for best results with fry your doing the right thing.

I agree. I have had corydoras that lay eggs on the glass like that. They are unlikely to hatch unfortunately as corydoras will not look after their eggs.

A dwarf puffers diet consists mainly of snails. But I have learnt that this fish should be kept only with other of its species, other than maybe a couple of larger shrimp and big snails. You would have to get a tank for this fish though and it’s probably too much work just to stop a small...

A few weeks ago I stopped using a small 5 gallon tank and used the filter sponge to give a larger tank a head start cycling. Would it be alright to now remove this filter sponge and put it back in the 5 gallon tank?

What size tank are these fish in?

Yes that is most definitely a bristlenose pleco.

You’ll need to post a picture so someone can help.

I’m not exactly sure how they sleep, but when I had kept them previously while they were supposedly sleeping they would very pale and their colours would fade.

It is nothing to worry about. It will be a cyclops copepod, they will move around your tank one jump at a time and are completely harmless. If you look very closely, you should see an oval, followed by two small ovals on each side. Again, this is harmless and some fish will eat these, but if...

It is with the puffers yes, every website will say that otocinclis is the best, if not only tank mate for them. Is this information false?

Looks fantastic, you have done a great job.

Right so i’ve decided the right thing to do is take back the tiger barbs. It was a mistake, but my lfs has some otocinclis coming in on Tuesday so i’m hoping to get store credit and basically swap them for a group of 4 otocinclis, this should be fine right ?

I have kept lots of different types of shrimp and I have never seen them burrow, if you get near them with the vacuum they will most likely just zoom off in another direction. I vacuum my gravel with no issues.

I did not know that a small group of tiger barbs needed such a large tank, and I was not prepared as my lfs gave me false information. All I can do right now is move them to a 5.5 gallon tank which would be almost pointless, maybe I could though.

I’m not exactly new to fish keeping but i haven’t been doing it for as long as most people as i’m only a kid. I’m going to have to try and get another tank to house one of these two species, wether it be the puffers or the tigers, and obtain more tigers to go in with the others. For now, I will...

My tank is an Aqua-Internal with 5 different types of live plants, two rocks and a small piece of driftwood. Size: 54x32x30cm Capacity: 60L Age: Newly set up, only 2 weeks old. Stocking: 4 Dwarf Pea Puffers, 2 Albino Tiger Barbs, 2 Green Tiger Barbs, 2 Regular Tiger Barbs, 3 Red Cherry Shrimp...

So i’m experimenting with these two species. I purchased four dwarf puffers a month ago and they were put in a 5.5 gallon for a week or two while i cycled my larger tank, I guess you could say i quarantined then in there. I have now put them in to the larger tank and... they are only tiny little...

112.5 ppl of calcium carbonate per litre of water is the results i’ve been given. It states that my water is quite soft with moderate hardness.

Thank you for the replies. I currently do not know the hardness of my water but in an old tank i used to have I had water of moderate hardness.

Okay. Thank you I will rethink.