Oh The Frustration!

[Morphkid03]

Well hello again! My nice little hiatus from the forum, due to my college finals, is over. Thank goodness!

Oliver and company (peppered cory catfish, panda cory catfish, and leopard cory) are doing well, and Oliver's little slice in his tail is getting close to completely healed up

However, while browsing the local petsmarts I am always tempted to pick up another little guy possibly as a rehab project. I'd love to get another betta, but my filtered 5 gallon tank already takes up a fair amount of table space in my dorm's living room. I've got a 1 gallon fish bowl I could put in my bedroom and spare small heater (perfect for a bowl) and figure I could pull off having a betta in there, though size-wise it would not be ideal. I want to know what everyone thinks I should do! Nothing is currently set in stone.

 

[loraxchick]

im on the look out for a rescue myself!

 

[Syphoniera]

Hi, Morphkid03,
glad to hear all is going so well and Oliver's recovering so nicely.
I was wondering if you'd thought about maybe trying to find a small hex?
My mother picked up a little 3 gallon hex at a garage sale for me and it really doesn't take up that much room.
I always figured it was too small for a fish tank, but it's doing service as an emergency Walstad for a small female betta with health issues, and it's not bad for her - she makes it look much bigger, by virtue of her tiny size.
I honestly couldn't imagine actually keeping a fish in a 1 gallon.
I have a 1 gallon (I think) fishbowl also picked up by my mother, and it's great for quarantining a small bunch of plants, or containing snails while tanks are undergoing treatment.
But a fish in there would be cramped and bored, apart from everything else.
That and you'd always be doing waterchanges and worrying about the conditions...

 

[Morphkid03]

Hi, Morphkid03,
glad to hear all is going so well and Oliver's recovering so nicely.
I was wondering if you'd thought about maybe trying to find a small hex?
My mother picked up a little 3 gallon hex at a garage sale for me and it really doesn't take up that much room.
I always figured it was too small for a fish tank, but it's doing service as an emergency Walstad for a small female betta with health issues, and it's not bad for her - she makes it look much bigger, by virtue of her tiny size.
I honestly couldn't imagine actually keeping a fish in a 1 gallon.
I have a 1 gallon (I think) fishbowl also picked up by my mother, and it's great for quarantining a small bunch of plants, or containing snails while tanks are undergoing treatment.
But a fish in there would be cramped and bored, apart from everything else.
That and you'd always be doing waterchanges and worrying about the conditions...

I saw some nicely priced (20 bucks and under) 2 and 3 gallon tanks, but they have under gravel filters. I have no experience with them- do you know if are they workable with bettas?