Recent content by NewbieDerby

Hi everyone, Can shrimps ad snails live with a Betta in a 25L tank? I have small gravel a real plant and an artificial one. The water is very cloudy but I have read that it is from Bacterial bloom as it is a week old tank. I am doing 25% water changes every day as the fish was added on...

Thank you for your help, I am not totally sold on the fishless, just the keeping Ammonia in the house when I have a 4 year old around that concerns me slightly. Deffo wanting a betta and a plant. Really excited now :)

It is at 26 degrees, don't know why I said 29. I'm really feeling like a Betta is a good option, I read that guppies like to like is shoals of 6+ and I really couldn't accomodate that.... YET! Haha

I'm not having anything with the Betta wouldn't be worth the risk or upset of seeing it nipping etc as I have a 4 year old daughter. This forum is amazing and I can tell I'm going to get some fab advice off it.

I popped down to pets at home earlier and was really lucky as a met a tropical fish fanatic who gave me real advice on fishless cycling and stocking. I have decided on one Betta and maybe a couple of shrimp, I am also going to get a real plant... I am excited but need to keep cycling and testing :D.

Thank you for the advice, I think I am going to go with a couple of male Endlers, I have also had advice about having one Betta on his own. I am considering both but as I mentioned the chap in the shop gave me some very poor advice around pre-cycpling so I am basically starting again. The...

I was told by the guy at the shop to use 'Stress-Zhyme'?

It is in the process of doing so as we speak.

Me too, I'm actually trawling through the web trying to find a larger tank set up now. 25 L is so small, when you consider that much of that space will be plants etc. Any suggestions? Does anyone on here sell stuff like that?

A great white shrimp lol

Thank you for your advice. I'll get there lol I HOPE!!! :)

Would you recommend that it is planted? Would you use sand? I hate the thought of having an overstocked tank. Ah nice, so might be worth me starting over. This time using sand and plants. I feel a post about plants coming on lol! I actually think having a small tank is much more scary because...

At the moment I have gravel and a fake plastic plant that the chap in the shop recommended, I actually think I have been conned a little in the respect. I would rather have sand and some plants, I was worried my lack of skill would make it really hard :rolleyes:. So if I get one of each of...

@Lindsey&Craig borellis look really nice do they live well in pairs? How do you keep them? Hmmm that seems slightly full, would they all have enough room? What kind of cover would be needed?

@Wills Endlers sound good and yeah looking at some photos are very guppy like. I saw a massive fish tank once that had SOOOO many guppies in because of breeding, 10 felt like an insanely high number. So how many would be recommended for such a small tank? What else would the require and are they...