Shrimp - Frog. Which One?

kevinthecow · Oct 30, 2008

So yeah, i decided to get shrimp or frogs.

5g tank, how much do i stock?

How many frogs?
How many shrimps?

(its either gonna be pure frog, or pure shrimp.

mwood2 · Oct 30, 2008

frogs are usually 1 frog per gallon but its better for them to have 3-4 tops in a 5 Gallon. Shrimp I don't know anything about.

kevinthecow · Oct 30, 2008

thanks mwood.

good to see you still hangaround. hows your tank going? (Both of em, you gf's and yours.)

k, so if I do frog i'll do 3-4 in a 5g.

aw, now the shrimp the shrimps gonna be amano, btw. maybe cherries, but write what it is first.

OH HOW MUCH I'D LOVE TO HAVE SHRIMPER HERE. t-t

mwood2 · Oct 30, 2008

You could have a mixture of both inside. I would think 2-3 AFD with 2-3 Shrimp would work well. Just make sure the tank is cycled. My tank are kinda odd at the moment, I need to get some money to do some stuff is all.

kevinthecow · Oct 30, 2008

dw meng, 12 year old and i got my savings.

(Around 100-300 left.)

Uh, yeah . I dont think thats gonna work.
I was going to try stacing rocks over eachother to make like, a cavelike theme. Bad part? frogs cant get up, well if i do it right they wont.

I'll try getting smaller rocks (Just pick em up from my friends house, he has a ton of rocks that the old owners used for gardening.)

paul123 · Oct 31, 2008

i am pretty sure frogs are 1 per gallon.

kevinthecow · Oct 31, 2008

Anyone else? i'll try getting like, 3 frogs.

Ficious · Oct 31, 2008

if its a heated tank i would do cherry shrimp. you could drop 10 or so in and watch them reproduce. i never had luck with them breeding in my 3 gallon but i think it had to do with there not being a heater. IMO frogs are kind of boring. shrimp tend to walk around and interact with eachother a lot.

id also like to suggest some white cloud minnows. in a 5 gallon you could easily get away with 8 or so. i have 6 white clouds and 1 cherry shrimp in my 3 gallon.

kevinthecow · Oct 31, 2008

well, my lfs is pretty small. ): no wcm, soz.

and frogs are the best man!

I love frogs! They're awesome. My frogs are very active. (in my 30g)

Well, cherries are sold for A LOT! at where i buy em. .___.

So, either 4 frogs or 8 cherry shrimps? (I'll make like a rock tower for them to climb and hang.)

Any fish I could get? Alone or two-three or more. im fine.

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Ficious · Nov 1, 2008

white clouds use to be called the poor mans neon so i dont see why 4 or 5 neons would hurt. and yes cherry shrimp are expensive. if anything get your frogs and drop a couple of ghost shrimp in. idk if frogs eat shrimp or not but they dirt cheap