20L Fish Tank And Tropical Fish.

[mike455555]

i know that feeling as well. i kept a pest snail. i dont mind them though. dont worry its good to have alot of cherry shrimp (you can sell them on.) or you can put another fish in there to eat them keep the numbers down a little. iv never kept them myself so i dont know what there actually like

 

[Cazgar]

Cherry shrimp are quite easy to care for & quite entertaining.
They do breed pretty readily, I started with 20 & until a mass die off the other week due to a bad patch of plants, I must've had well over 50 in that one tank.
They don't lay eggs, they carry their eggs until they're ready to hatch, then release the shrimplets which are tiny
The tank you're looking at is really to small for any schooling fish, so you're limited as to what you could have.
A Betta & some shrimp would be your best bet, if the Betta doesn't munch the shrimp, some do, some don't

 

[Helen23254]

Wouldn't it be lonely though...Just one fish?
How big was your tank, cazgar?

 

[Cazgar]

I have several tanks ranging from 120 litres to 40 litres with shrimp in most of them.
I have shrimp in with two of my Bettas in 25 litre tanks

 

[Helen23254]

Wouldn't it be cruel to also have, a fish in there, just to eat something else?
I really like the idea shrimp though, esp, cherry ones

 

[mike455555]

2 betta's in a tank?

and betta's are loners they are very territorial if you put 2 together then they will fight. or if you put a betta with a betta looking fish it will fight it you can keep a male with about 4+ females but that's about it i think

 

[Helen23254]

I was also told that about my loach.
I mentioned on another forum I had one, and people were like ' YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT WITH GOLDFISH! . IT WILL KILL THEM!!' But i spoke to my partners mother, who has kept them for years and she said they will only get aggressive if theres more than one!

I was relieved!

 

[Cazgar]

I think you read that wrong, I have my Bettas in their own 25 litre tanks, I know not to keep them together.
No, you can't keep male & female Bettas together
Some Bettas get on fine with shrimp, others don't

 

[mike455555]

you can keep them together long if you have more than 4 female's to a male and you can only have 1 male in a tank. i thought you would of known not to why i thoguht i sounded a little wierd

 

[Grant1897]

you can keep them together long if you have more than 4 female's to a male and you can only have 1 male in a tank. i thought you would of known not to why i thoguht i sounded a little wierd

Ummm. I don't think you can. I don't think a male and female should ever be in the same tank. Apart from when breeding. But I'm no expert, only know what I've read on here.

 

[Cazgar]

No, you cannot keep males & female bettas together, it almost always ends badly

 

[Helen23254]

What about snails?

 

[mike455555]

i thought you could long if the tank as large enough with enough hiding places and if there's more than 4 females to a male? isent it called a harem? i might be wrong

 

[Cazgar]

It has been done, but only in a very large tank, & doesn't always work, so best to keep them separate.
Back to the Op's original question, in a tank that small you could really only keep a single male Betta & some shrimp

 

[mike455555]

It has been done, but only in a very large tank, & doesn't always work, so best to keep them separate.
Back to the Op's original question, in a tank that small you could really only keep a single male Betta & some shrimp

ohh right i wasn't suggesting for her to get them. and i agree with you ideally betta and shrimp only for that tank