3.5 gallon tank

[devillikeme]

Alright, thanks! I might get some today, since the tank is cycled and everything.

 

[Essjay]

If you get cherry shrimps, stick with one colour. If you get more than one colour, they'll interbreed and you'll end up with a tank of brown shrimps.

 

[devillikeme]

If you get cherry shrimps, stick with one colour. If you get more than one colour, they'll interbreed and you'll end up with a tank of brown shrimps.

There's more than one color of cherry shrimp?

 

[FishGuest5123]

Yes. There is a blue and yellow strain. Not sure about other colors. The red are the easiest to find.

 

[devillikeme]

Alrighty!
I might go with blue, match the color scheme kinda. Red seems like it would clash.

 

[Back in the fold]

Paradise Fish. Macropodus opercularis. A close cousin of the Betta with similar requirements but able to take somewhat cooler water. Colorful and pretty.

 

[devillikeme]

Noted!

 

[FishGuest5123]

Paradise Fish. Macropodus opercularis. A close cousin of the Betta with similar requirements but able to take somewhat cooler water. Colorful and pretty.

Don’t they get about 2”? I don’t think they would be suitable for such a small tank.

 

[Essjay]

I agree. Paradise fish need a much bigger tank than 2.5 gallons.

I should have been clearer last evening about cherry shrimps. Wild Neocaridina heteropoda are brown. Several colours have been developed through selective breeding, with red cherry being the first.
Looking at one UK on-line shrimp seller, they sell red cherry, Bloody Mary, fire red sakura, orange sakura, yellow sakura, snowball white pearl, red rili, orange rili, black carbon rili, blue dream, blue jelly, chocolate, green jade..... These are all the same species, and will interbreed with the offspring usually reverting to the wild colour.

Real shops do not sell nearly as many varieties. I have seen red, blue, orange and red rili.

 

[Back in the fold]

Maybe. They are an anabantid labyrinth fish. They aren't much bigger than a Betta when you factor out the Bettas big long flowing fins.

 

[Essjay]

Paradise fish are not the same as bettas. They need a tank with a footprint at least 80 x 30 cm (32 x 12 inches)

 

[devillikeme]

Paradise fish are not the same as bettas. They need a tank with a footprint at least 80 x 30 cm (32 x 12 inches)

Little smaller than a hamster or gerbil cage!

 

[Dr. Fish]

I would move the betta to the 3.5 gallon, and put some shrimp and a snail in the 2 gallon.