Opinions Needed!

[crazyjadles]

Alrighty this is a blank canvas for most of you to start painting your fishical wisdom on! I have a 34L tank (7 gallons) & a 7L tank and i would very much like to put fish in it

I got my big tank for christmas and have had it running since. From my little tank i brought over my corydora catfish and my bumblebee goby (all that survived the horrid summer weather). So i have 2 tanks to put fishes in. I like to talk to my fish.. and name them. So lots and lots of little fishes i don't like so much My corry is Narcissus Coz he loves to look at himself! (and i know corrys shouldn't be kept by themselves thats why he does that.. but i still call him that) So fish with LOTS of character are preferable!

The little tank has had Mollies, Guppies, Platy's, Angelfish and Tetras in the past. It's an old tank.... but still my favourite. I was thinking of putting goldfish in the for something different.

The bigger tank has only had the Goby and the Catfish in it. I would be more than happy to put them into the little tank again so its easy to transfer them around.

So please! Help me out! What fish do you like the most? What do you find fun and colourful? Use that imagination and create the perfect tank you would own yourself... and tell me because i am clueless about the compatability of the fish and pet stores are only interested in sales

Thanks in advance to everyone who replies!

 

[dwarfgourami]

A. Bumblebee gobies are brackish! And corys can't take any salt. So these two are not going to thrive together. And even a 7 gallon (more like 9 US gallons) is way too small for a peppered cory.

B. Goldfish need a BIG tank to do well. They grow big, they are heavy waste producers and being coldwater fish they need more oxygen+ more water than tropical fish. 20 gallons recommended for the first fish+ another 10 for each additional fish. So unless you want stunted and unhealthy fish, don't even think about them.

now for some suggestions:

1. The small 7 (2 US gallons) ltr tank seems like the ideal home for a Siamese fighting fish aka betta. These are really the only fish that will thrive in such a small tank. Other fish need more space to be able to maintain anything like natural behaviour.

Alternatively, there are lots of nice shrimps on the market;a shrimp home would look good.

Or another alternative is an African dwarf frog.

2. The 9 gal tank is best suited for small fish (2: or under; unless you do another betta- but remember you can't have two bettas in the same tank, nor combine him with anything else with flowing fins like male guppies)

You could probably go brackish and keep more gobies in it, but would then have rehome the cory.

Or you could set up a community of colourful small schooling fish, such as pygmy rasboras, maybe combined with a small school of pygmy cories.

A group of male guppies would work. Or male endlers.

What shape is your tank? I feel a bit concerned about this lonely cory, who probably does not have the room he needs to move around, and almost certainly misses having companions. Ideally, you should try to find him 2 mates- but the tank is really very small and this will leave hardly any room for other fish.

My own idea would be to try to find him a home with somebody else; then restock the tank along the lines outlined above. But please do something about the goby.

And don't forget to check out the fish index on this forum;thiswill tell you things like adult size of fish, if they are scholling or territorial or whatever, and waht water parameters they need.

 

[@ombomb]

For a 7 gallon tank you choice is VERY limited. Personally I'd have a dingle dwarf puffer in there, but if you're going for colour, maybe a few guppies.

For the 7 litre tank... personally I wouldn't even keep a betta in something that small.

How many tanks have you got? Is there another tank larger than the smaller two that you have your current fish in?

None of the fish you have mentioned keeping in the past are suitable for either the 34L or the 7L and you certainly should not put goldfish in either tank.

 

[crazyjadles]

hmm... thats interesting.. my cory has tonnes of room to swim around

This is my big tank

AR380
• Curved Glass Aquarium
• 38x25x46cm
• 34 Litres Capacity
• Complete with built in biological wet/dry filter
• NEW PL Light tube included for a brighter clearer tank
• Complete with filter media
• Available in black, blue, silver, purple and gold
• Seamless front and side glass creates optimum viewing
• Swivel lid protects water from environmental pollutants such as
dust and gives easy access for feeling and maintenance
• Suitable for fresh and salt water fish
• Suitable for cold water or tropical fish


and my other tank had held 4 mollies comfortably with the cory. I would feel that if i just kept my fighter int he smaller tank it would be wasted... i have already tried him in there and he kept to a corner of the tank. I really think its too big for him. Maybe the measurements hare being mixed up?

this is what the smaller one is similar to. about 30x30x25

 

[xanthianacid]

A. Bumblebee gobies are brackish! And corys can't take any salt. So these two are not going to thrive together. And even a 7 gallon (more like 9 US gallons) is way too small for a peppered cory.

Actually Dwarf, some bumblebee gobies are not brakish. And they are as hard as nails. I've kept two in a tank with cory's and bns its all good as long as she has the right kind.


I suggest guppies for prettiness, at least a three males (and if you don't mind the responsibities of pregnant guppies you could get girlies - they will be consistantly pregnant).

Gouramis are also a good option, but only a couple because it's a smaller tank.

 

[dwarfgourami]

"thats interesting.. my cory has tonnes of room to swim around"

Seeing how active cories are when they have more room, I wonder how much natural behaviour he is actually able to display. How does he find room for the "cory dance"? I keep mine in a tank twice that size and often feel they could do with more fin-room.

"Actually Dwarf, some bumblebee gobies are not brakish. And they are as hard as nails. I've kept two in a tank with cory's and bns its all good as long as she has the right kind."

I may be wrong in this, but my understanding was that some bumblebees could live in freshwater for a while but that their lifespans would be shortened.

I think you would be likely to get aggression problems if you kept more than 1 gourami in such a small tank.

 

[OMA]

I may be wrong in this, but my understanding was that some bumblebees could live in freshwater for a while but that their lifespans would be shortened.

I think you would be likely to get aggression problems if you kept more than 1 gourami in such a small tank.

I think dwarf is right, you're gourami's would be too aggressive towards each other.

As for the bumblebee gobies, having looked into them cos they're so lovely, are brackish fish in very much the same way that mono are. early on in life the can live in freshwater and often do, but later on they require brackish water. this explains the shortened life as your habitat won't change when they do.

for the tank i would recommend guppies sure but only males for the colour and the fact that if you have females you'll need three times as many as the males for them to be happy and you'll be overun with guppies when they go breeding mental. Believe me, they just keep going at it and as lovely as it is watching the young grow up and develop gorgeous fin patterns, it's not lovely seeing too many in a small tank.

 

[crazyjadles]

"thats interesting.. my cory has tonnes of room to swim around"

Seeing how active cories are when they have more room, I wonder how much natural behaviour he is actually able to display. How does he find room for the "cory dance"? I keep mine in a tank twice that size and often feel they could do with more fin-room.

"Actually Dwarf, some bumblebee gobies are not brakish. And they are as hard as nails. I've kept two in a tank with cory's and bns its all good as long as she has the right kind."

I may be wrong in this, but my understanding was that some bumblebees could live in freshwater for a while but that their lifespans would be shortened.

Well my bumblebee died today... 3 months but he looked older than that.

as for the corry i swear the tank is too big for him... our oppinions collide my corry is very small... about 10 cm long... he swims all around the tank and rests himself under my bridge i have in there... he loves to swim up to the top of the tank and down again.... he'll only do it once... coz he looks out of breath after that

so we have guppies and gouramis??