Fish Lovers 2.0

[Lonin]

Could someone walk me through koi care for indoors. i think i have a pretty good sized tank. i would apprecitae it through pm too ^^. You see since i started a spirit animal meditation, i found my life spirit animal is a white koi and i kinda really want one.

It's really not a good idea. Koi get really massive (3ft+), have a huge bioload and kinda a need a decent sized pond (1000 gallons+) once they get to a certain size. They are not aquarium fish and won't live a full life expetancy in most tanks.
How big is your tank?

I have this lingering feeling that my two fish won't last a whole lot longer. (They are't sick or thing; I just seem to have that feeling.)

I'm wondering what I should get for my tank if my current fish do end up passing. I have a five gallon freshwater tank with an LED light, five gallon filter, and no heater. It has three small plants, a small barrel structure, and a decorative rainbow, as well as gravel of course.
The only thing i thought of was a Beta. I had originally bought the tank for a beta, but the beta had died before I managed to get home. I just want to know if there is anything else and if so, what to avoid buying. I'm asking because I don't want what happened the first time; I went to petsmart and ended up way over-stocking my tank with fish that need more than one of its species.
Any suggestions will help, thank you. c:

5 gallons is only really big enough for a Betta, snails or shrimp. Or maybe African Dwarf Frogs c:
You'll need to get a heater though.

[Blood Storm]

I recently caught a full grown African jewelfish and put it in my tank with my bichir. The two are quite happy together(though feeding time gets a little nasty, luckily no injuries, just snapping and head-butting over a piece of food even if I put more than one piece in the tank with them). Sadly I know that the relationship will only last until the bichir gets big enough to eat his 4 inch friend...

I like African jewelfish but they have weird requirements that make keeping them long-term very tough(they need others of their own kind to be happy, yet they males will kill other males and females will kill other females, which means you need a male and a female to make them happy, which means every week you get 200+ babies I don't have room for, though I do have an Oscar who finds small fish tasty XD)

[ｂｒｏｋｅｎｑｕａｒｔｚ]

I have this lingering feeling that my two fish won't last a whole lot longer. (They are't sick or thing; I just seem to have that feeling.)

I'm wondering what I should get for my tank if my current fish do end up passing. I have a five gallon freshwater tank with an LED light, five gallon filter, and no heater. It has three small plants, a small barrel structure, and a decorative rainbow, as well as gravel of course.
The only thing i thought of was a Beta. I had originally bought the tank for a beta, but the beta had died before I managed to get home. I just want to know if there is anything else and if so, what to avoid buying. I'm asking because I don't want what happened the first time; I went to petsmart and ended up way over-stocking my tank with fish that need more than one of its species.
Any suggestions will help, thank you. c:

5 gallons is only really big enough for a Betta, snails or shrimp. Or maybe African Dwarf Frogs c:
You'll need to get a heater though.

Alright; I had assumed I could only really put a Beta in, and I'm completely fine with it, since it's all i really need. >3<

But i will have to get a heater for the beta...? I hadn't read anywhere that beta's require heaters...

[Dia.]

I have this lingering feeling that my two fish won't last a whole lot longer. (They are't sick or thing; I just seem to have that feeling.)

I'm wondering what I should get for my tank if my current fish do end up passing. I have a five gallon freshwater tank with an LED light, five gallon filter, and no heater. It has three small plants, a small barrel structure, and a decorative rainbow, as well as gravel of course.
The only thing i thought of was a Beta. I had originally bought the tank for a beta, but the beta had died before I managed to get home. I just want to know if there is anything else and if so, what to avoid buying. I'm asking because I don't want what happened the first time; I went to petsmart and ended up way over-stocking my tank with fish that need more than one of its species.
Any suggestions will help, thank you. c:

5 gallons is only really big enough for a Betta, snails or shrimp. Or maybe African Dwarf Frogs c:
You'll need to get a heater though.

Alright; I had assumed I could only really put a Beta in, and I'm completely fine with it, since it's all i really need. >3<

But i will have to get a heater for the beta...? I hadn't read anywhere that beta's require heaters...

Plenty of sites advise heaters and filters for betta fish. ^^ Their natural habitat is tropical and they are happiest around 78-82 degrees.
Also keep in mind to avoid sharp decoration and real or silk plants are the way to go since plastic plants can tear their fins. :3

Also, since you think your fish are sick, I suggest thoroughly cleaning and rinsing your tank before restocking it.
I believe I've read about bleach or vinegar solutions, but someone else would have to direct you with that or you'll have to do your own research. :3

[Firefly_Dreamer]

I have this lingering feeling that my two fish won't last a whole lot longer. (They are't sick or thing; I just seem to have that feeling.)

I'm wondering what I should get for my tank if my current fish do end up passing. I have a five gallon freshwater tank with an LED light, five gallon filter, and no heater. It has three small plants, a small barrel structure, and a decorative rainbow, as well as gravel of course.
The only thing i thought of was a Beta. I had originally bought the tank for a beta, but the beta had died before I managed to get home. I just want to know if there is anything else and if so, what to avoid buying. I'm asking because I don't want what happened the first time; I went to petsmart and ended up way over-stocking my tank with fish that need more than one of its species.
Any suggestions will help, thank you. c:

5 gallons is only really big enough for a Betta, snails or shrimp. Or maybe African Dwarf Frogs c:
You'll need to get a heater though.

Couldn't you also have a bumblebee goby? i read that those only need 5 gallons, sand and obvious other requirements for tropical fish ^^

[Lonin]

Couldn't you also have a bumblebee goby? i read that those only need 5 gallons, sand and obvious other requirements for tropical fish ^^

Probably wouldn't be the best idea. From what we've read minimum tank size is anything from 10 gallons to 30 depending on which site you go to and they're social so they need to be kept in a group. There are a few different species that go by bumblebee goby but 5 gallons is probably going to be too small c: There really isn't very much you can permanently keep in a 5 gallon.

[Hime]

There are some super tiny rasboras that only grow about 1,5cm or so. They are sometimes talked as suitable fish for nano tanks, and nano tanks are under 40 liters(20-30l usually I believe). I'm not sure, but they just might be okay in 5 gal(which was around 20 liters if I'm remembering right?).

[Blood Storm]

Maybe soon I will set up a 10 gallon nano aquarium with a pair of clownfish in it. I have set up a saltwater tank before(I lost everything in it to red slime algae...it would not go away no matter what I did) but I have always wanted to start up a new one that's tiny. I was thinking either a pair of clownfish or a group of dwarf seahorses(the seahorses cannot live in something much larger than a ten gallon, they would have trouble finding food). either way when I finally get around to setting up I will look into more fish to keep in it(only one or two "nano" fish can live in a ten gallon, or four dwarf seahorses).


btw if you EVER set up a saltwater tank, never get yellow-tail damselfish...it took forever to get them out of that tank(they kept killing all of our fish, and we wanted more in a 30 gallon saltwater tank than four tiny blue fish). I had at one point in the tank: a pair of scooter blennies(a dragonet, like a mandarin fish), a pair of clownfish(they were the action of the tank XD), a sand sifting goby(he died when he dug under a piece of live rock...was not pretty), and a blackfin blenny(a fish I had actually stumbled upon on my vacation in the florida keys, four hours away from my house, I only recently found out what type of fish he was, up until then we called him "Fish" XD), as well as a crap ton of hermit crabs, snails, algae eating crabs etc. etc. to keep the tank clean.

[deletedaccplsignore]

Does anyone know how to tell the gender and breed algae eaters ? NOT Plecos!!! Just regular algae eaters. Those are not my fish but that is what they look like.

[Dia.]

Does anyone know how to tell the gender and breed algae eaters ? NOT Plecos!!! Just regular algae eaters. Those are not my fish but that is what they look like.

I suggest going and doing your own research.
Breeding and raising fish is something that you should extensively research before undertaking... Not asking a question on a forum and going from what those people said. ^^
I'm sure there are a plethora of sites that talk about it.