Yet Another.....what To Put In My Tank?

[samyboy]

i have a spare tank next to my computer, its 8 gallong got an elite mini filter and a 50w heater

i did tempory have it rather overstocked but theyve now gone in a 15gallon

so any sujestions, mini comunity or a species ive had betta's before they never seem to last more than 6 months though

 

[littlest]

bettas tend to be quite old when they are sold (6-9 months) as they look a lot prettier at that age, and they don't have particularly long life expectancies, so that could explain why they died after around 6 months.

I don't know much about stocking but I am stocking a similar sized tank soon (30L) so I thought I'd tell what with.
my numbers aren't quite decided yet but I am having a few pygmy cories and either some male endler's or some sparkling gouramis.

honey gouramis were also suggested to me a few times for the tank (instead of the endler's or sparklings). Small species of rasboras were also suggested to me. 1 dwarf gourami was suggested too but I didn't want to go down that route as I hear they are very prone to disease.

All of these were suggested to me by people on here btw, most of which quite experienced.

 

[Musho3210]

id say betta, simply cause there non social fish so you dont need to worry about having 2 fish in there but when you have 2 fish OS blah blah blah.

 

[vinylman]

You could always go the cold/cool water route and put plenty of small plants and a small piece of wood in there along with 5 or 6 White Clouds. A simple, but impressive tank.

 

[samyboy]

i likes the idea of a few intresting cory's i only have bronze and peppered in the main tank


had white clouds before they seem to be about as healthy as neon tetras

 

[LauraFrog]

Harlequin rasboras look nice, but they apparently need a slightly larger tank. I keep platies and (small) mollies in a smaller tank than that (20L) but only a few, I don't want to push it into the 'overstocked' zone.

 

[paul_219]

I say betta also.

 

[dwarfgourami]

me, I say nano fish, e.g.:

corydoras habrosus, hastatus or pygmaeus

rasbora/boraras brigittae or maculata/us or urophtalmoides- all these like soft water

endlers

heterandria formosa

sparkling gouramis

ember tetras

I have a 19 ltr tank atm with 3 sparkling gouramis. My next tank will probably be a 30 ltrs with pseudomugil gertrudae.

Not all of these, evidently. And don't forget the shrimps.