dorm room tank

[nino]

this is my tank i set up in my dorm room a couple weeks ago. it's empty in the picture but i have two adf's in there now

 

[MXPX4318]

looks great, what size is it? are you going to put anything else in there? I have a 20g with 5 gold barbs, 6 rasporas, 3 cories, and 1 (soon 2) blue rams, as well as a 10g that is empty at the moment but will be set up next semester as a brackish tank with a fig. 8 puffer, and I also have a 10g quarantine tank. (ooopppsss guess I missed the part of the dorm contract that says "no pets, except fish tanks (20 gallon room limit)" to bad. I'll have some pictures up hopefully by christmas.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

How much room you have in your dorms?

Any plans for the fish that'll go in?

 

[nino]

it's only 5.5 gallons, we have a ten gallon limit for dorm rooms but i just didn't really have the room.
i'm not sure what i want to put in it yet... saw some really neat killifish at the LFS but they were $13 a piece and i just haven't got that kind of money to spend on fish right now. also was thinking of kuhlie loaches but from what i gather it sounds like a bad idea.

any ideas?

 

[Sasha]

Very nice! I love the plants!

 

[nino]

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thanks, they are all real too. everyone thinks the one in the back right (on the wood) are fake but they are not.

 

[tear-scar]

Might I suggest some dwarf gourami species? Sparkling Gourami, croaking gourami, and licorice gouramis all stay rather small. You can keep a number of them in a well planted tank, even if its small (they're labrynth fish too).

Here' a shot of one of my pygmy Licorice Gouramies:

He's full grown at three-fourths of an inch. Turns jet black with bright red fins when in mating mood, but otherwise they kind of hide at the bottom. Sparklers and croaking look very similar in shape, but are a bit bigger with bright markings and are more traditional top-dwelling anabantanids.