New Community Tank

[dwarfgourami]

I can understand about your boyfriend not being keen on bettas; they are rather different from other fish, either you like them or you don't. Shrimps and ADFs are good ideas, unless he specifically wanted fish.

Other possibilities are:

endlers - they are smaller than guppies but closely related

pygmy rasboras- small schooling fish

pygmy corydoras- move all over the tank unlike peppered corys

I agree with catxx that peppered corys would only work while they are very small; peppered corys grow to between 2 and 3 inches (females equally get up to 3 inches) and are extremely active at times, they shoot around the tank at great speed. I keep mine in a 19 gallons and think of that as a bit of a minimum. And I wouldn't advise you to buy fish that you can't house once they grow up. Guppies are smaller but still very active fish; I wouldn't keep them in under 10 gallons. It is possible to keep mixed sexes, I do, but only of you have the space to play around with and preferably more than one tank so you can separate male and female fry.

 

[Suzi]

thanks for everyone's advice... im working on my boyfriend to let me get a bigger aquarium will let everyone know how i get on

 

[demonmagus]

another thing you could do is a dwarf puffer, tons of personality

 

[Suzi]

yeah i was thinking about that but arent they hard to feed?

 

[catxx]

a useful link about dwarf puffers

 

[Suzi]

thanks for that..... they're so cute! might look into them a bit more

 

[camshaft]

im surprised that no one has mentioned neons. 6 of them would be great in a small tank like that. hell i have 12 of them in a 55g community and they hardly ever move. they basically have a small corner of the tank they occupy.