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Very pretty! How many glofish do you have in the tank and how big is it?My first fish tank.
Yes, I think the little fishies might need a 15 gallon. I'm not sure I could fit 20g on my daughter's desk and that's really the only spot in her room for the tank. But I think a 50% space upgrade would still be beneficial for Princess, Lil Angel, Lemon Drop and Spikes (and a new green friend whenever the LFS stocks them again).@mrsjoannh13 nothing like an Xmas upgrade hahaha (I have been keeping an eye on black friday sales and it looks like there are some good deals to be had on ~30g kits)
Well at least I have (I think) learned my lesson. Planning on my next tank for my home office and I wouldn't go with anything smaller than a 20 gallon. Planning on 6 corydoras and 1 male betta. I might go a little bigger to add some mid-tank fish - neon tetras or rummynose. Still undecided on that part and it might depend on how big a tank I can put in my study. My daughter is already drawing aquascape designs for my tank - lord help me LOL!These tetras get pretty large. 2 inches, sometimes up to 3 inches.
If you go with a 15gal (still a bit small for them, but) itd have to be just the 5-6 tetras and nothing else added.
Welcome to the joys of falling into the trap of buying a tank for your kid only to fall in love with the hobby started with a 10g horribly stocked community for our son, now at 10 tanks and breeding some fish too.
My husband went (reluctantly) with me to our area's one local fish store to get some supplies for my daughter's tank. In the store was this beautiful (LARGE) tank and he fell in love with it. He can't stop talking about where in the house should we put it and the types of fish he wants in it (he doesn't know names yet, just knows he wants a big school of the same type of fish). We have all been infected!Awesome, awesome!!! I may have roped hubby into this hobby inadvertently as well, I showed up on Friday with 150lbs of substrate that I was about to start setting up to wash and he was like "wait, you're using THAT?!?" And my response was that if mister doesn't like it, mister can choose a different substrate himself, and all of a sudden he is completely interested in the driftwood, and has told me that we are going to go for a "south american biotope" look! Lol, I'm just excited that this is turning into a shared hobby!