Recent content by lilo

if you want something a bit different, african dwarf frogs go well with bettas. Amano shrips are great at keeping the tank crystal clear of algae. with bettas you just don't want to have anything too nippy, or anything else with long flowing fins, or the betta will think its another betta.  the...

i am fighting the brown algae in my brackish puff tank too. ugh! i rotate the rocks into my freshwater tank where the amanos clean them then i put them back. annoying, but works well with no effort on my part. :D

Thanks everyone! The betta killed a cherry shrimp i had in there (i assume it was the betta, it may have just been a dud shrimp), but hasn't touched the ghosts or amanos. so no more cherrys for me, i guess. frogs seem to get along well with everyone.    I first got the green spotted puff under...

Having a hard time uploading pics, but here is my 10 gallon freshwater community tank, and my brackish tank.  freshwater houses a betta, african dwarf frogs, amano and ghost shrimp, neons and harlequin rasboras. it is also my first planted tank.  Brackish houses a green spotted puffer and two...