Fish Lovers 3.0 [new poll]

[boston]

What size tank is the minimum needed for ghost shrimp?

I've learned a gallon a ghost shrimp if above 10 gallongs total. But if less than ten gallons, do 1 1/2 gallons per shrimp. To be on the safe side, probably 2.5 gallons.

Agreed, and I've seen my shrimp be even more active and healthy on sand rather gravel.

[BlingBling]

Shouldn't salt water tanks be cycled? From what I see, the people on Tanked don't cycle at all, and overstock as well. Am I right in hating em? :c

Ugh, why must Petsmart have so many pretty Betta babies? I want so many of em x-x

[Blood Storm]

Shouldn't salt water tanks be cycled? From what I see, the people on Tanked don't cycle at all, and overstock as well. Am I right in hating em? :c

Ugh, why must Petsmart have so many pretty Betta babies? I want so many of em x-x

yes, saltwater tanks should have about a two month cycling period thing to be stable. only complaint about that show. the tanks that make are epic.

ikr, I love bettas, but my lack of room makes it impossible to have them.

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On a side note, we are about to get rid of/ maybe put down our Oscar. she got over her case of hole-in-head disease, but not has pop-eye and severe bi-polarity issues. one minute she is so lethargic that the pleco starts sucking on her and she seems dead, then suddenly she comes alive and starts bashing her head into the gravel of the tank. whatever it is, its not good. we are thinking about getting rid of her and the pleco, moving my bichir into the 75 gallon, and then buy a new baby pleco and a few baby Oscars(maybe even a green terror or two as well).

[scuttlefish]

eep I have gravel
You know what would be awesome?
If someone bought like, a bunch of bettas from Walmart and then got ten 5 gallons..betta room!
Also, I have a question. Is there any way to keep two female bettas together? Not doing it, just curious. Like, if you put two female bettas in a 100 gallon tank, would they deliberately seek out each other and fight? Or if you have enough, like 5 in a huge tank, would they stop fighting?

[imp.]

I have a tetra (A pink one to be specific) and she/he is alone but how do I figure out if he/sdhe is which gender

[Blood Storm]

eep I have gravel
You know what would be awesome?
If someone bought like, a bunch of bettas from Walmart and then got ten 5 gallons..betta room!
Also, I have a question. Is there any way to keep two female bettas together? Not doing it, just curious. Like, if you put two female bettas in a 100 gallon tank, would they deliberately seek out each other and fight? Or if you have enough, like 5 in a huge tank, would they stop fighting?

You cannot keep two female bettas together, they would pick on each other and kill each other, they should be housed in groups of 5 or more.

I have personally kept 7 bettas in a 30 gallon without dividers and got amazing results.

I bought 6 females and one male, and set them free. at first I was worried that I would have to separate them, but that changed when they started schooling like barbs or tetras. the male was extremely protective of his harem and would flare up at me when I came up to feed them, and the females hid behind him.

the epicness ended when they caught some weird disease that spread like wildfire. only one female and the male were left. the male ended up going over to the little pit they slept in at night and would not leave. he turned pale and did not come up to eat. he died a few days later, curled up in that little pit. there was no signs of disease or anything.

the remaining female lived for two more years and was housed with another female and a male when she died of natural causes.

so yes, bettas CAN be kept together, and the can get along very well under proper circumstances.

[PeachFuzz]

I am so excited! My mom said we can go to Petco on Sunday, and I'm getting another betta! #3! I'm addicted to these fish lol.

[BlingBling]

eep I have gravel
You know what would be awesome?
If someone bought like, a bunch of bettas from Walmart and then got ten 5 gallons..betta room!

I've kinda been doing that, but getting all those lil filters and heaters are pricy so I need to slow down 8'D

[Dakotak]

Shouldn't salt water tanks be cycled? From what I see, the people on Tanked don't cycle at all, and overstock as well. Am I right in hating em? :c

Ugh, why must Petsmart have so many pretty Betta babies? I want so many of em x-x

I think what they do is a quick cycle. Where they take already established media and add it to a filter. I have no proof of this though and yes they do over stock.
Their tanks are amazing but other than that they do suck.

[Hime]

I have a tetra (A pink one to be specific) and she/he is alone but how do I figure out if he/sdhe is which gender

A) Tetras shouldn't really be kept alone. And B) they are not the easiest to tell the gender. Not sure about the species you have(pink tetra says nothing to me), but certain type tetras usually have fatter slightly larger females while the males are tad smaller and more lean.


I'm really tempted to make a betta sorority tank out of that empty 80-ish liter I have sitting around(with TON of plants). Not helping I finally found some pretty girls in one shop(by suprise too) that weren't killing each other. But money, I has none... >_< Not to mention I'd kinda reaaaally need to upgrade into canister filter for my 128l since all the junk just sits on top of the sand and doesn't end up sucked up for some reason. Don't know why really, as it used to be just fine, with only little dirt on certain areas. Now it's kinda really bad...